Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms.

As a DevOps engineer, you’re a developer or infrastructure administrator who also has subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organisations.

Your responsibilities for this role include delivering Microsoft DevOps solutions that provide continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring, and feedback. You design and implement flow of work, collaboration, communication, source control, and automation.

As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include:

• Developers
• Site reliability engineers
• Azure administrators
• Security engineers.

Module 1: Development for enterprise DevOps

Module 2: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

Module 3: Design and implement a release strategy

Module 4: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

Module 5: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Implement continuous integration (CI) with Pipelines and GitHub Actions
• Design a release strategy with Azure DevOps and GitHub
• Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) with Azure and DSC.

To become a Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, you must earn at least one of the following:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate.

You must have experience both administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas. You should also have experience implementing both GitHub and Azure DevOps solutions.

Audience Profile

Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.