AZ-400 Certification

Develop an Instrumentation and SRE Strategy 

• Using Azure Monitor, design a thorough telemetry and monitoring plan. 
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to enhance service reliability and performance. 
• Develop a practical alerting strategy to proactively identify and resolve errors. 

Manage Source Control and Implement CI/CD 

• Implement and oversee source code branching techniques in GitHub and Azure Repositories. 
• Using Azure Pipelines YAML, design and build reliable pipelines for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). 
• Integrate security scanning and quality validation into your DevSecOps pipelines. 

Design and Implement a Release Strategy 

• Control release versioning, package management (Azure Artefacts), and build artifacts.
• Architect a release strategy by utilizing ideas such as release gates, deployment rings, and feature flags. 
• Reduce downtime by implementing suitable deployment patterns (e.g., Blue-Green and Canary). 

Implement Dependency Management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 

• Utilize tools like Azure Artifacts and NuGet to manage program dependencies. 
• Create and manage cloud infrastructure using ARM templates, Bicep, and Terraform. 
• Using tools such as Azure App Configuration or Azure Key Vault to implement configuration management solutions.