Study guide
Azure AZ-400 study guide
Read a lesson, then practice the ideas you want to remember.
Lessons
- Binary, Web App, Function & Scripted Deploym
- Containerized Application Delivery: ACR, AKS
- Database DevOps: State-Based & Migration-Bas
- Access Levels, GitHub Roles & Outside Collab
- Azure DevOps Projects, Teams & Permission Ev
- Microsoft Entra Service Principals & Managed
- Service Connections, Workload Identity & Per
- Branch Policies, Quality Gates & Compliance
- Git Branching Models & Strategy Design — Free Study Guide 2026
- Pull Request Workflows & Merge Strategies
- Minimizing Downtime: Deployment Slots & Roll
- Feature Flags with Azure App Configuration &
- Designing the High-Priority Hotfix Path
- Ordered Dependency Deployments, Resiliency &
- Progressive Delivery: Blue-Green, Canary & R
- DORA Metrics, Flow Metrics & Dashboard Desig
- Lifecycle Metrics Across the Six DevOps Phas
- Project Documentation: Wikis, Mermaid Diagra
- Webhooks, Service Hooks & Microsoft Teams Ch
- Work Item Queries, WIQL Charts & Analytics
- End-to-End DevOps Traceability & Quality Tra
- Flow of Work, GitHub Flow & Feedback Cycles
- Work Tracking with Azure Boards & GitHub Pro
- Azure Deployment Environments & Developer Se
- Desired State Configuration & Azure Machine
- Infrastructure as Code Strategy: Bicep, ARM
- Dependency Versioning: SemVer, CalVer & Auto
- Feed Scoping, Upstream Sources & Pipeline Au
- Selecting Package Tools: Azure Artifacts vs.
- Package Views, Immutability & Quality Promot
- Pipeline Artifact Versioning & Artifact Stor
- Selecting a CI/CD Solution: Azure Pipelines
- GitHub-Azure Pipelines Integration & Hybrid
- Hosted vs. Self-Hosted Agents & Runners
- Pipeline Triggers, Filters & Concurrency Man
- VMSS Elastic Pools, Container Jobs & Agent G
- Modernizing CI/CD: Classic to YAML Migration
- Pipeline Health, Flaky Tests & Reliability E
- Pipeline Optimization: Caching, Slicing & Co
- Artifact & Build Retention Governance — Free Study Guide 2026
- Git Data Recovery & Sensitive-Data Scrubbing
- Git LFS Architecture & .gitattributes Tracki
- Git Repository Scaling, Scalar & Monorepo Go
- LFS History Migration, git-fat & File Lockin
- Repository Permissions & Git Tag Governance
- Azure Key Vault, Secret Variables & Secretle
- CodeQL SAST in Pipelines and Containers
- Software Supply Chain, Container Scanning &
- Security Scanning Strategy, GHAS & Secret Sc
- Distributed Tracing, Application Map & Excep
- KQL Log Analytics, SRE Observability & Error
- Application Insights & Specialized Azure Mon
- Azure Monitor Architecture, AMA & Data Colle
- Alerting Rules, Action Groups & GitHub Repos
- Code Coverage Analysis & SonarQube Integrati
- Load, Stress & Performance Testing in Pipeli
- Quality Gates, Release Gates & Governance Ch
- Test Execution Tasks, Agents & Results Integ
- Test Strategy Design: Local, Unit & Integrat
- Job Execution Order: DAG Dependencies, Paral
- Reusable Elements: Templates, Parameters & V
- Variable Groups, Secret Variables & Key Vaul
- YAML Environments, Checks & Deployment Appro
- YAML Pipeline Anatomy: Stages, Jobs, Steps &