Foundations
Not exam-scored · required first
2. Agile and Scrum in plain EnglishLocked
3. What DevOps actually isLocked
4. Azure basics you need firstLocked
5. Git without the jargonLocked
1. Processes & communications
10–15% of exam
1.1 Choosing an Agile process in Azure BoardsLocked
1.2 Configuring boards, backlogs, and sprintsLocked
1.3 Communication tooling and stakeholder reportingLocked
2. Source control strategy
10–15% of exam
2.1 Branching strategies: trunk-based, GitFlow, release flowLocked
2.2 Repo structure and migrating to GitLocked
2.3 Pull requests and branch policiesLocked
3. Build & release pipelines
50–55% of exam
3.1 CI fundamentals and YAML pipeline syntaxLocked
3.2 Build agents: hosted vs self-hostedLocked
3.3 Artifacts and package managementLocked
3.4 Multi-stage pipelines, templates, variable groupsLocked
3.5 Release strategies: blue-green, canary, feature flagsLocked
3.6 Environments and approvalsLocked
3.7 Infrastructure as Code in pipelines (Bicep, Terraform)Locked
3.8 Containers and Kubernetes deployment pipelinesLocked
3.9 GitHub Actions vs Azure PipelinesLocked
4. Security & compliance
10–15% of exam
4.1 Secrets management and Key Vault integrationLocked
4.2 Security scanning in pipelinesLocked
4.3 Compliance, governance, and auditLocked
5. Instrumentation strategy
5–10% of exam
5.1 Application Insights and Azure MonitorLocked
5.2 Alerts, dashboards, and feedback loopsLocked
Capstone
Practical build
Ship a full CI/CD pipeline for a real sample app, end to endLocked