Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Azure DevOps professionals combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives.

Skills measured

Design a DevOps strategy

Recommend a migration and consolidation strategy for DevOps tools

analyze existing artifact (e.g. deployment packages, NuGet) and container repositories
analyze existing test management tools
analyze existing work management tools
recommend migration and integration strategies for artifact repositories, source control, test management, and work management

Design and implement an Agile work management approach

identify and recommend project metrics, KPIs, and DevOps measurements (e.g. cycle time, lead time, Azure Kubernetes Service, WIP limit)
implement tools and processes to support Agile work management
mentor team members on Agile techniques and practices
recommend an organization structure that supports scaling Agile practices
recommend in-team and cross-team collaboration mechanisms

Design a quality strategy

analyze existing quality environment
identify and recommend quality metrics
recommend a strategy for feature flag lifecycle
recommend a strategy for measuring and managing technical debt
recommend changes to team structure to optimize quality
recommend performance testing strategy

Design a secure development process

inspect and validate code base for compliance
inspect and validate infrastructure for compliance
recommend a secure development strategy
recommend tools and practices to integrate code security validation (e.g. static code analysis)
recommend tools and practices to integrate infrastructure security validation

Design a tool integration strategy

design a license management strategy (e.g. VSTS users, concurrent pipelines, test environments, open source software licensing, DevOps tools and services, package management licensing)
design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
design a strategy for integrating monitoring and feedback to development teams
design an authentication and access strategy
design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources

Implement DevOps development processes

Design a version control strategy

recommend branching models
recommend version control systems
recommend code flow strategy

Implement and integrate source control

integrate external source control
integrate source control into third-party continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems

Implement and manage build infrastructure

implement private and hosted agents
integrate third party build systems
recommend strategy for concurrent pipelines
manage Azure pipeline configuration (e.g. agent queues, service endpoints, pools, webhooks)

Implement code flow

implement pull request strategies
implement branch and fork strategies
configure branch policies

Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups
manage target UI test device sets
provision tester devices for deployment
create public and private distribution groups

Managing application configuration and secrets

implement a secure and compliant development process
implement general (non-secret) configuration data
manage secrets, tokens, and certificates
implement applications configurations (e.g. Web App, Azure Kubernetes Service, containers)
implement secrets management (e.g. Web App, Azure Kubernetes Service, containers, Azure Key Vault)
implement tools for managing security and compliance in the pipeline

Implement continuous integration

Manage code quality and security policies

monitor code quality
configure build to report on code coverage
manage automated test quality
manage test suites and categories
monitor quality of tests
integrate security analysis tools (e.g. SonarQube, WhiteSource Bolt, Open Web Application Security Project)

Implement a container build strategy

create deployable images (e.g. Docker, Azure Container Registry)
analyze and integrate Docker multi-stage builds

Implement a build strategy

design build triggers, tools, integrations, and workflow
implement a hybrid build process
implement multi-agent builds
recommend build tools and configuration (e.g. Azure Pipelines, Jenkins)
set up an automated build workflow

Implement continuous delivery

Design a release strategy

recommend release tools
identify and recommend release approvals and gates
recommend strategy for measuring quality of release and release process
recommend strategy for release notes and documentation
select appropriate deployment pattern

Set up a release management workflow

automate inspection of health signals for release approvals by using release gates
configure automated integration and functional test execution
create a release pipeline (e.g. Azure Kubernetes Service, Service Fabric, WebApp)
create multi-phase release pipelines
integrate secrets with release pipeline
provision and configure environments
manage and modularize tasks and templates (e.g. task and variable groups)

Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

implement blue-green deployments
implement canary deployments
implement progressive exposure deployments
scale a release pipeline to deploy to multiple endpoints (e.g. deployment groups, Azure Kubernetes Service, Service Fabric)