Exam AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Yes, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate certification acts as a prerequisite for the Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification. So, one must have passed either AZ-104 or AZ-204 exam before appearing in the AZ-400 exam.

Exam AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions is the only exam one needs to pass to become an Azure DevOps Engineer Expert. Besides prerequisites, It is recommended that the candidates are proficient agile practices with the familiarity in Azure development and Azure Administration both.

The candidates should also be skilled in designing and implementing DevOps practices for infrastructure as code, version control, configuration management, build, release, compliance, and testing by using different Azure technologies.

All the domains and the topics under these domains are important for the AZ-400 certification exam preparation. Some of the important topics that you can’t miss during your AZ-400 exam preparation are Infrastructure as code, infrastructure and configuration management, migration and consolidation, version control, code flow, Azure Kubernetes service, system feedback mechanisms, container builds, release management, and dependency management.

Yes, the AZ-400 certification exam contains many performance-based lab questions. You will be asked to go into the Microsoft Azure portal using the given login credentials and perform some tasks. Each lab may contain 8-9 tasks and you can use PowerShell, CLI or Azure Portal to accomplish the tasks.

• The candidate needs to wait 24 hours before retaking the exam second time if fails in the first attempt.

• The candidate must wait at least 14 days before retaking the exam third time if he/she fails in the 2nd attempt.

• The candidate also has to wait at least 14 days before retaking the exam fourth and fifth times.

• Candidate can take a maximum of 5 retakes in a year. (This 12-month period starts from the day of the fifth unsuccessful exam attempt.)

The domains covered in the Microsoft Azure AZ-400 Exam are:

• Design and implement processes and communications (10–15%)

• Design and implement a source control strategy (10–15%)

• Design and implement build and release pipelines (50-55%)

• Develop a security and compliance plan (10–15%)

• Implement an instrumentation strategy (5–10%)

If you want to pass the Azure AZ-400 exam in the first attempt to receive the badge of Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, you should follow the right path for your preparation. Steps you need to follow while preparing for Microsoft Azure AZ-400 Exam are:

• Go through the Microsoft Learning portal.

• Understand the Exam Structure and BluePrint

• Take up Microsoft Azure AZ-400 training

• Study Microsoft Documentation

• Refer to Azure whitepapers and ebooks.

• Participate in Discussion Forums and Study Groups.

Take up AZ-400 free test and AZ-400 practice tests to examine your preparation level.

You can expect different types of questions in AZ-400 exam, these are:

• Multiple Choice Questions

• Yes/No Statements Questions

• Drag & Drop Questions [Aligning, Ordering and Matching], 

• Case Studies Questions

• Multiple Response Questions

Microsoft Azure introduced Role-based certifications in 2018 to make its certifications more role-specific. Since then there has been a number of modifications in the Azure certification list, involving the addition and deletion of certification exams as well as the addition of new roles. Here is the most recently updated list of Azure role-based certifications: