Steps to Follow for the AZ-400 Exam Preparation. Once you confirm that you’ve met the sufficient requirements for the exam, you can start your AZ-400 exam preparation without any further delay. Anytime, you can consider this article as a reference material or Preparation guide for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions exam.
Exam AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps SolutionsCandidates for this exam are DevOps professionals who combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives. DevOps professionals streamline delivery by optimizing practices, improving communications and collaboration, and creating automation. They design and implement strategies for application code and infrastructure that allow for continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring and feedback.Candidates must be proficient with Agile practices.
They must be familiar with both Azure administration and Azure development and experts in at least one of these areas. Azure DevOps professionals must be able to design and implement DevOps practices for version control, compliance, infrastructure as code, configuration management, build, release, and testing by using Azure technologies. Design a tool integration strategy. design a license management strategy (e.g. VSTS users, concurrent pipelines, test environments, open source software licensing, DevOps tools and services, package management licensing).
design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software. design a strategy for integrating monitoring and feedback to development teams. design an authentication and access strategy. design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources.
If you pass the both AZ-300 and AZ-301 then you becomethe Azure Solutions Architect Expert. This is one of therole-based certification exams microsoft has recently announced.
For moredetails about which one fits you well please have a look into the blog postHere I am going to discuss about AZ-300 specifically.In a nutshell if you area) Sys Admin (IT-Pro):,b) ProfessionalDeveloper:c) Solution Architect:,d) DevOps Engineer:Generally important links and resources are always atthe bottom of every article. I thought I will start with that – important than mytips,1. Look for the detailedmodule-based curriculum2.
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Azure SolutionsArchitect role-based exam prep: AZ-300 Technologies – BRK3386Here come my tips,PreparationAzuredocumentation is your bookAll the exam questions are backed up with the azuredocumentations.Even if we do not have any Published book yet, you can go through Azuredocumentation as per the curriculum (above).UnderstandSLA and pricingYou need to understand different SLAs. For example,when a VM is 99.95%, 99.9% etc. For more about Azure SLA please visitKnow about pricing, because this is a SolutionArchitecture exam and as an Architect you need to optimize the cost of Azuredeployment without compromising the high availability and configurationrequirements.
A quick checkwould help.Hands-on isimportantA significant section of this exam is about hands onlabs. You need to login to a VM provided by the exam and implement the scenariosmentioned. You can use Portal, PowerShell or CLI. But some may explicitly askyou use one of the above three ones.
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So be prepared for that. If you are doinghands on lab for creating VM – then I recommend you do it in all three or moreways. Maybe you want to do it through ARM as well. You never know. No harmpreparing for it.
Because at the end of the day the whole purpose of thecertification is not to get the badge but to implement your knowledge in realworld scenario. So more you learn the better prepared you are for the actualwork.Subscription LimitationsUnderstand the subscription limits. For more visit,you don’t need to remember them by heart but having a knowledge (like quickglance through) would help you take some decisions as an architect.ReadFAQ.Many of us really don’t put a lotof emphasis on this but let me tell you this is your real dump. You have so manytricky situations you can answer if you go through each of these FAQ sections ofthe major services covered in the exam. Most of the Azure services FAQs are intheir corresponding documentation section but if you do a quick search on thetop of the documentation page as– never miss it!!!Noprogramming (coding) required.Thoughthis is a technology exam and covers broader aspect of both IT Pro and Dev, youdon’t need to know C#, Python etc.
But youare expected to know PowerShell or CLI. So, this is more IT Pro and lessdeveloper. Many non-developers are bit skeptical about it. I think this is bydesign and for good reason. If you are a developer and write code everyday thenyou must target AZ-203.During ExamYou can write this exam in either a registered testcenter or online proctored. This is what you select when you register your exam.Test center option is simple.
You go to the registered center and follow their guideline and give exam and comeout either passed or failed.For online proctored, I have some tips.Highbandwidth and bigger screen.Make sureyou have stable high bandwidth internet connection. You don’t want it to drop inbetween. So, if you are not sure, don’t start your exam in that environment.Make sure you are using a large screen – this would help you during Lab.Clean roomand no breaks.You can’t keep anythingnot even a water bottle in the exam room. You stay enough hydrated but at thesame time make sure that you won’t get a chance in middle of your exam for a biobreak.
So, don’t over consume water. The exam duration is 3 hour. This is along duration.
Be prepared for both mentally and physically.Readquestions multiple times.Readquestions again and again. Because some questions are tricky. If you read ittwice the meaning could appear different than the first read. For example, someanswers need you to select multiple answers. If you select one, then it could bewrong.No negativemarking.Never mind if your answer iswrong. Just move on.
Because there is no negative marking – attempting for theanswer may increase your chance of getting additional marks.Timemanagement.Time management is the keyin AZ-300. This exam is for 150 min. You might have no time finish all. So,don’t spend too much time in one question. Just observe that.
Keepmore time for Lab because you need to select and create which takes time. Someother exam you can finish in an hour or little more, but this exam needs fulltime.
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