AZ-400Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
What the exam covers
- Configure processes and communications 27 practice questions 10–15%
- Design and implement a source control strategy 31 practice questions 10–15%
- Design and implement build and release pipelines 133 practice questions 50–55%
- Develop a security and compliance plan 40 practice questions 10–15%
- Implement an instrumentation strategy 35 practice questions 5–10%
Study guide
From Microsoft
About AZ-400
DevOps with Azure DevOps and GitHub: work tracking, branching and pull request policy, YAML pipelines and release strategies, package management, secrets and compliance scanning, and observability.
Who it's for. DevOps engineers. Microsoft expects AZ-104 or AZ-204 experience first.
How to prepare
- Pipelines are over half of the bank. Know stages, jobs, templates, environments and approvals in YAML.
- Know the branching strategies (trunk-based, GitFlow, release branches) and when each fits.
- Secrets go in Key Vault or variable groups linked to Key Vault, never in YAML.
Sample AZ-400 questions
Try these with the answers on the page, then practise the full bank.
- A remote engineering group spread across several countries wants people to hand off questions about specific tasks without scheduling calls. Which feature in Azure DevOps supports that handoff best? Configure processes and communications
- A team practicing continuous integration wants every developer to integrate into the shared line at least daily, while still releasing unfinished functionality without exposing it to customers. Which arrangement fits? Design and implement a source control strategy
- A company keeps its web frontend, API and background worker in one repository. A change to the frontend should not trigger expensive builds of the worker. Which setup addresses this? Design and implement a source control strategy
- A software house wants developers to catch leaked secrets and formatting errors before a commit ever leaves their laptop, and it wants the server to reject anything that bypasses that step. Which pairing is strongest? Design and implement a source control strategy
- A library must be tested on Windows, Ubuntu and macOS against three runtime versions each. The team wants one pipeline definition that expands to all nine combinations. What should they use? Design and implement build and release pipelines
- An engineering group wants its npm restores to keep working during public registry slowdowns, and wants each third-party package fetched from the public registry only once. Which Azure Artifacts feature achieves this? Design and implement build and release pipelines
- A payments team has agreed that 99.9 percent of requests must succeed each month, and wants to know when it is spending its error budget too fast. Which tooling provides the signals it needs? Implement an instrumentation strategy
- An operations team wants an alert within minutes when a web app starts throwing unhandled exceptions after a release. Which approach gives automatic detection and notification? Implement an instrumentation strategy
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Questions people ask
Is this AZ-400 practice exam free?
Yes. All 266 questions, the timed mock exam and the explanations are free, and there's no account to create.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Real exam questions are confidential under the Azure candidate agreement. These are practice questions written to cover the same domains in the same scenario style, each with an explanation of why the answer is right.
How is the AZ-400 mock exam scored?
Questions are drawn from every domain in proportion to the exam guide, and you get a raw percentage with a breakdown by domain. Azure uses scaled scoring, so treat 75% or more here as a sign you're ready rather than a predicted score.
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