Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Online Training

[AZ-900] Azure devops tools and Fundamentals

Azure Fundamentals is the foundational level exam belonging to the new Azure certification path. This exam is for those who want to demonstrate the basic knowledge of cloud services with Microsoft Azure. Also, the people who are from a non-technical background with some basic understanding of the concepts of cloud can take this certification exam. IQ Stream Technologies offering world class online training for Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert programs.

[AZ-900] Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification is not mandatory, it is optional but is recommended for beginners or professionals who want to refresh their basics.

Azure Associate

To get a Microsoft Azure DevOps certification, you first need to obtain Microsoft Azure Associate certification. For this, you have two options- Azure Administrator & Azure Developer. IQ Stream in Bangalore is the leading Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert online training course provider with proven track records.

[AZ-104] Azure Administrator

Azure Administrators help in designing and implementing microsoft Azure solutions, with major services related to computing, network, storage, and security.

Skills Measured in azure cloud engineer certification

• Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (25-30%)
• Manage Azure identities and governance (15-20%)
• Configure and manage virtual networking (30-35%)
• Implement and manage storage (10-15%)
• Monitor and back up Azure resources (10-15%)

Prerequisites of devops azure course

As a prerequisite for this course certification, you need to have either of the following:

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

If you hold any of these certifications with subject matter expertise in DevOps, you could be ready to pursue this certification.

Azure devops (Exam AZ-400) measures skills as-

Develop an instrumentation strategy (5-10% of the exam)

• Design and implement telemetry
• Design and implement logging
• Integration testing delivery monitoring and feedback solutions

Develop a site reliability engineering (SRE) strategy (5-10% of the exam)

• Develop an alerting strategy
• Design and implement a health check
• Design a failure prediction strategy

Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15% of the exam)

• Design governance enforcement mechanisms
• Design an authentication and authorization strategy
• Develop security and compliance
• Design a sensitive information management strategy

Manage source control (10-15% of the exam)

• Integrate source control with tools
• Develop a modern source control strategy
• Configure repositories
• Plan branching, designing, and implementing strategies for the source code

Facilitate communication and collaboration (10-15% of the exam)

• Communicate deployment with releasing information
• Automate communication with team members
• Generate DevOps process documentation

Define and implement continuous integration (20-25% of the exam)

• Design-build automation
• Maintain build strategy
• Design a package management strategy
• Automation Runbooks Gallery, Artifactory, Nuget, Jfrog
• Automated Security Updates, GreenKeeper, NuKeeper
• Design an application infrastructure management strategy
• Implement a build strategy
• Design a process for standardizing builds in organization

Define and implement a continuous delivery- release management strategy (10-15%)

• Develop deployment templates and scripts
• Implement the orchestration automation solution
• Plan the deployment environment strategy

In most cases, exams do not cover preview features.

What is Azure DevOps? Things you should know

• Organization

Azure DevOps organization is by default an account name/Domain name, but we can change it. Ordinarily, you have one Azure DevOps account with various domains inside, which means we can generate multiple organizations with one Microsoft account. We can configure security and access control for an individual organization as well.

• Projects

We can split the Azure DevOps organization into multiple projects and configure access control, build process, pipeline, board, and code for an individual project.

• Azure Board

Azure board is used for planning, tracking for Backlog, Work Items, and Sprints. It is also termed an ALM (application life cycle management) tool, just like other ALM tools SpiraTeam, JIRA, etc. We can create workflows, epic, issue types, and many other components of ALM inside the Azure board.

• Azure Repos

Azure Repos is where we can manage, create, and store versions of our codebase. We can use it to review code and other version control functionality. Azure Repos gives us two types of version control systems which are TFVC (centralized version control) and GIT (Distributed version control).

• Azure Pipeline

The azure pipeline is an automation process of DevOps that lets us make a build, release, test, and deploy on the target machine. It is the combination of CI/CD.

• Azure Artifacts

Azure Artifacts is one of Azure DevOps extensions, which helps us create, host, manage, and share packages across the team. It supports multiple packages, e.g, NPM, Nuget, Python, Maven, etc. Azure Artifacts are essentially a collection/ output of dll, jar, rpm, and many other types of files. One of those extension-based files may contain metadata.

• Azure Test plans

Azure plans support advanced test management solutions for UAT, customer feedback, manual testing, and Automation testing.

What can Azure DevOps training do?

• Planning

As discussed above, the Azure board is an efficient ALM tool. Azure board helps us maintain an agile process, which means the DevOps helps us plan and track development history for individual developers. They also detect issues using a scrum or kanban.

• Develop

To manage our code repository and workspace, multiple sorts of version control are integrated with Azure DevOps. Almost all the features related to DevOps are already inbuilt.

• Integration/Build

We can use constant integration and deployment (CI/CD) with the help of the Azure pipeline. There are multiple job agents, and templates are already available inside.

• Package

This already has an inbuilt extension available, Azure Artifacts, so that we don’t need to go anywhere for any other type of packages.

• Testing

Testing is a significant part of the DevOps process. The Azure DevOps delivers multiple types of management tools and inbuilt testing templates.

• Release

The software release process is a critical moment for DevOps. So Azure DevOps already has multiple kinds of inbuilt features to make the process risk-free and easy.

• Configure/Operate

It’s very easy to operate and configure because Azure DevOps has a simple process for configuring organization, sprints, kanban, etc.

• Monitor

Each stage of the DevOps life cycle needs to be monitored because it helps to ensure your application’s health, performance, and reliability.

• Reporting

Azure DevOps has a well-built dashboard where we can see reports, summarize, and generate an analytical report with BI integration.

• Wiki

Azure DevOps Wiki helps us distribute information, share knowledge, and collaborate across teams and stakeholders. A Wiki can be used to explain the project’s user stories, release notes, sprints, etc.

Other Azure Courses:

Azure Logic Apps Online Training
Azure Developer Associate Online Training
Azure Administrator Associate Online Training

Conclusion

Azure DevOps platform is generally applied in the Software Development process. Along these lines, it also helps the association, which is using Azure and making the SLA simple. A lot of such benefits exists which will help you in career. So if you are anywhere close to making a profession in Microsoft, you should definitely try this training course from IQ Stream.