MCE Microsoft Azure DevOps Training & Certification Boot Camp – 6 Days

Exams Included & Administered During Camp:
AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions
What's Included
Airfare To/From Sarasota or Tampa
1 Microsoft Test Vouchers
1 Microsoft Official Course
6 Nights of Lodging
1 Retake Voucher (if needed)
Microsoft Study Labs & Simulations
Ground Transportation
Onsite Pearson Vue Test Center
Instructor Led Classroom Training
The NEW Microsoft Certified Expert - Azure DevOps Training & Certification 6 Day Boot Camp focuses developing knowledge and skills to 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.
The Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps boot camp is taught using Microsoft Official Courseware
AZ-400T00: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
While attending this 6 day camp - students will take one exam (AZ-400) to achieve the Microsoft Certified Expert Azure DevOps Engineer certification. This certification requires either Microsoft Azure Administrator or Azure Developer prerequisite certification. Certification Camps offers Azure Dev / DevOps combo camp.
This hands on, instructor led live camp teaches the knowledge to develop / deploy applications in an Azure environment along with the knowledge needed for the certification exams (administered while attending camp).
Skills Gained:
Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
Create a team and agile organization structure
Topics Covered in this Official Boot Camp
Planning for DevOps
Lessons
- Transformation Planning
- Project Selection
- Team Structures
- Migrating to Azure DevOps
Lab : Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
- Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
- Create a team and agile organizational structure
- Design a tool integration strategy
- Design a license management strategy (e.g. VSTS users)
- Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
- Design an authentication and access strategy
- Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
Getting started with Source Control
Lessons
- What is Source Control
- Benefits of Source Control
- Types of Source Control Systems
- Introduction to Azure Repos
- Introduction to GitHub
- Migrating from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git in Azure Repos
- Authenticating to Git in Azure Repos
Lab : Version Controlling with Git
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the benefits of using Source Control
- Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
- Migrate from TFVC to Git
Scaling Git for enterprise DevOps
Lessons
- How to Structure your Git Repo
- Git Branching Workflows
- Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
- Why care about GitHooks
- Fostering Inner Source
Lab : Code Review with Pull Requests
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain how to structure Git repos
- Describe Git branching workflows
- Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
- Leverage Git hooks for automation
- Use git to foster inner source across the organization
Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
Lessons
- Packaging Dependencies
- Package Management
- Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
Lab : Updating Packages
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Recommend artifact management tools and practices
- Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
- Migrate and consolidate artifacts
- Migrate and integrate source control measures
Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
Lessons
- The concept of pipelines in DevOps
- Azure Pipelines
- Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
- Agent Pools
- Pipelines and Concurrency
- Azure DevOps and Open Source Projects (Public Projects)
- Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
- Continuous Integration Overview
- Implementing a Build Strategy
- Integration with Azure Pipelines
- Integrate External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
- Set Up Private Agents
- Analyze and Integrate Docker Multi-Stage Builds
Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
Lab : Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Implement and manage build infrastructure
- Explain why continuous integration matters
- Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps
Managing Application Config and Secrets
Lessons
- Introduction to Security
- Implement secure and compliant development process
- Rethinking application config data
- Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates
- Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline
Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Manage application config and secrets
- Implement tools for managing security and compliance in pipeline
Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
Lessons
- Managing Code Quality
- Managing Security Policies
Lab : Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Manage code quality including: technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
- Manage security policies with open source and OWASP
Implementing a Container Build Strategy
Lessons
- Implementing a Container Build Strategy
Lab : Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers
- Implement containers using Docker
Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance
Lessons
- Package security
- Open source software
- Integrating license and vulnerability scans
- Implement a versioning strategy
Lab : Manage Open Source Security and License with WhiteSource
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards
- Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating
- Configure secure access to package feeds
- Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages
- Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the solution
- Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages
- Manage security and compliance
Design a Release Strategy
Lessons
- Introduction to Continuous Delivery
- Release strategy recommendations
- Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
- Choosing a deployment pattern
- Choosing the right release management tool
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Differentiate between a release and a deployment
- Define the components of a release pipeline
- Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
- Classify a release versus a release process and outline how to control the quality of both
- Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
- Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
- Choose a release management tool
Set up a Release Management Workflow
Lessons
- Create a Release Pipeline
- Provision and Configure Environments
- Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
- Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline
- Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
- Automate Inspection of Health
Lab : Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML
Lab : Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests
Lab : Using Azure Monitor as release gate
Lab : Creating a release Dashboard
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
- Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
- Classify an Agent, Agent Queue, and Agent Pool
- Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
- Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
- Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
- Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
- Embed testing in the pipeline
- List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using alerts, service hooks, and reports
- Create a release gate
Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
Lessons
- Introduction to Deployment Patterns
- Implement Blue Green Deployment
- Feature Toggles
- Canary Releases
- Dark Launching
- AB Testing
- Progressive Exposure Deployment
Lab : Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe deployment patterns
- Implement Blue Green Deployment
- Implement Canary Release
- Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment
Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
Lessons
- Implement Tools to Track System Usage, Feature Usage, and Flow
- Implement Routing for Mobile Application Crash Report Data
- Develop Monitoring and Status Dashboards
- Integrate and Configure Ticketing Systems
Lab : Monitoring Application Performance
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Configure crash report integration for client applications
- Develop monitoring and status dashboards
- Implement routing for client application crash report data
- Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
- Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team’s work management
Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
Lessons
- Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates
- Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
- Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell
- Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Azure Automation with DevOps
- Additional Automation Tools
Lab : Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
- Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI
Azure Deployment Models and Services
Lessons
- Deployment Modules and Options
- Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
- Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
- Serverless and HPC Computer Services
- Azure Service Fabric
Lab : Deploying a Dockerized Java app to Azure Web App for Containers
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure
Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
Lessons
- Azure Kubernetes Service
Lab : Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Service
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster
Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure
Lessons
- Chef
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Terraform
Lab : Infrastructure as Code
Lab : Automating Your Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform
Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
Lessons
- Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
- Azure security Center
Lab : Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
- Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
Lessons
- The inner loop
- Continuous Experimentation mindset
- Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
- Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback
- Design process to automate application analytics
Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
- Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
- Design routing for client application crash report data
- Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
- Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools
Optimize feedback mechanisms
Lessons
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
- Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts
- Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
- Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
- Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
- Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages
- Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts
Microsoft offers these additional Azure certifications
Microsoft Job Role-based Azure Certifications
Microsoft has aligned Azure certifications and training to job roles - focusing on Admin, Dev or Architect.
Each certification requires 2 exams and no certification has any prerequisite certification requirements.
Certification Camps has developed a comprehensive training / delivery format which focuses on learning beyond the core content accessible to any Microsoft training provider. Our program incorporates interactive demonstrations with explanations which go beyond the content of the book. Additional content, videos, labs & demonstrations are provided to expand on advanced topics - providing additional insight and perspective. Certification Camps training is not the typical book & PowerPoint presentation found at any local training center.
As a Microsoft Certified Partner with Gold Learning Competency - we adhere to the strict guidelines, standards and requirements to use Microsoft's exclusive curriculum. More over - our standards go beyond the "minimum requirements" set forth by Microsoft Learning.
We leverage our partnership benefits of courseware customization to build end to end technology training solutions. Students gain practical skills which can be implemented immediately.
At most training centers - learning starts on the first day of class and ends on the last day. Our boot camp training program is designed to offer resources before, during and after.
CERTIFICATION CAMPS FACILITIES
CAMPUS - Certification Camps built a state of the art training center with spacious classrooms, no sound transference between rooms, new desk, Herman Miller Aeron chairs & great common areas.
CLASSROOM SERVERS - Students work on a dedicated Dell 8700 / 8900 with an Intel i7 (6th generation), 32GB memory with 512GB SSD drives.
CAMPUS INTERNET - The campus is connected with a 300Mbs Verizon Fios Business Connection which provides complete internet (including VPN) access for students.
COMMON AREA - Unlike any training facility ever - break room with Mame Arcade, high end "kitchen" with snacks, drinks (Coffee, 100% juices, sodas, etc) and breathtaking terrace.
LODGING - We use the Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites Lakewood Ranch. This "upgraded" hotel offers extremely comfortable beds, great breakfast and very fast (Verizon) internet access.
NEAR BY AMENITIES - Many shops, restaurants and grocery options are available within walking distance. Additionally - the hotel provided scheduled shuttle services. Restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Panera Bread, Bone Fish Grill, Ruby Tuesday's, Five Guys, Chipotle, Quiznos, Chili's and over 20 additional choices in the immediate area.