Study guide

Azure AZ-400 study guide

Read a lesson, then practice the ideas you want to remember.

Lessons

  1. Binary, Web App, Function & Scripted Deploym
  2. Containerized Application Delivery: ACR, AKS
  3. Database DevOps: State-Based & Migration-Bas
  4. Access Levels, GitHub Roles & Outside Collab
  5. Azure DevOps Projects, Teams & Permission Ev
  6. Microsoft Entra Service Principals & Managed
  7. Service Connections, Workload Identity & Per
  8. Branch Policies, Quality Gates & Compliance
  9. Git Branching Models & Strategy Design — Free Study Guide 2026
  10. Pull Request Workflows & Merge Strategies
  11. Minimizing Downtime: Deployment Slots & Roll
  12. Feature Flags with Azure App Configuration &
  13. Designing the High-Priority Hotfix Path
  14. Ordered Dependency Deployments, Resiliency &
  15. Progressive Delivery: Blue-Green, Canary & R
  16. DORA Metrics, Flow Metrics & Dashboard Desig
  17. Lifecycle Metrics Across the Six DevOps Phas
  18. Project Documentation: Wikis, Mermaid Diagra
  19. Webhooks, Service Hooks & Microsoft Teams Ch
  20. Work Item Queries, WIQL Charts & Analytics
  21. End-to-End DevOps Traceability & Quality Tra
  22. Flow of Work, GitHub Flow & Feedback Cycles
  23. Work Tracking with Azure Boards & GitHub Pro
  24. Azure Deployment Environments & Developer Se
  25. Desired State Configuration & Azure Machine
  26. Infrastructure as Code Strategy: Bicep, ARM
  27. Dependency Versioning: SemVer, CalVer & Auto
  28. Feed Scoping, Upstream Sources & Pipeline Au
  29. Selecting Package Tools: Azure Artifacts vs.
  30. Package Views, Immutability & Quality Promot
  31. Pipeline Artifact Versioning & Artifact Stor
  32. Selecting a CI/CD Solution: Azure Pipelines
  33. GitHub-Azure Pipelines Integration & Hybrid
  34. Hosted vs. Self-Hosted Agents & Runners
  35. Pipeline Triggers, Filters & Concurrency Man
  36. VMSS Elastic Pools, Container Jobs & Agent G
  37. Modernizing CI/CD: Classic to YAML Migration
  38. Pipeline Health, Flaky Tests & Reliability E
  39. Pipeline Optimization: Caching, Slicing & Co
  40. Artifact & Build Retention Governance — Free Study Guide 2026
  41. Git Data Recovery & Sensitive-Data Scrubbing
  42. Git LFS Architecture & .gitattributes Tracki
  43. Git Repository Scaling, Scalar & Monorepo Go
  44. LFS History Migration, git-fat & File Lockin
  45. Repository Permissions & Git Tag Governance
  46. Azure Key Vault, Secret Variables & Secretle
  47. CodeQL SAST in Pipelines and Containers
  48. Software Supply Chain, Container Scanning &
  49. Security Scanning Strategy, GHAS & Secret Sc
  50. Distributed Tracing, Application Map & Excep
  51. KQL Log Analytics, SRE Observability & Error
  52. Application Insights & Specialized Azure Mon
  53. Azure Monitor Architecture, AMA & Data Colle
  54. Alerting Rules, Action Groups & GitHub Repos
  55. Code Coverage Analysis & SonarQube Integrati
  56. Load, Stress & Performance Testing in Pipeli
  57. Quality Gates, Release Gates & Governance Ch
  58. Test Execution Tasks, Agents & Results Integ
  59. Test Strategy Design: Local, Unit & Integrat
  60. Job Execution Order: DAG Dependencies, Paral
  61. Reusable Elements: Templates, Parameters & V
  62. Variable Groups, Secret Variables & Key Vaul
  63. YAML Environments, Checks & Deployment Appro
  64. YAML Pipeline Anatomy: Stages, Jobs, Steps &