Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer (AZ-400) Certification Training

Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) is the exam for the Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification. It tests whether you can combine people, process and products to deliver continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring and feedback on Azure, using both Azure DevOps and GitHub.

Microsoft lists the AZ-400 skill areas and weightings as: design and implement processes and communications (10-15%); design and implement a source control strategy (10-15%); design and implement build and release pipelines (50-55%); develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%); and implement an instrumentation strategy (5-10%). Microsoft updated the English-language exam on 27 July 2026, and the course follows the updated outline. Because pipelines carry most of the weight, labs concentrate on YAML pipelines, GitHub Actions, containers, deployment strategies, infrastructure as code and release management.

To earn the DevOps Engineer Expert certification Microsoft requires one of the Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Developer Associate certifications in addition to passing AZ-400. Note that Microsoft has retired the Azure Developer Associate certification, so most new candidates use Azure Administrator (AZ-104); check Microsoft Learn for the current rule. The course prepares you for the exam, which you book yourself with Microsoft through Pearson VUE. Delivery is live, instructor-led and online.