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Azure DevOps Engineer Study Roadmap

AZ-400 · 12-week plan · Free

Last updated: March 30, 2026

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Domain Weight Distribution

D1: Configure Processes and Communications
10-15%
D2: Design and Implement Source Control
15-20%
D3: Design and Implement Build and Release Pipelines
40-45%
D4: Develop a Security and Compliance Plan
10-15%
D5: Implement an Instrumentation Strategy
10-15%

Week-by-Week Study Plan

Week 1

Processes: Agile planning, Azure Boards, work item tracking, sprints

Week 2

Processes: Team collaboration, wikis, dashboards, stakeholder feedback

Week 3

Source Control: Git branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews

Week 4

Source Control: Mono-repo vs multi-repo, Git hooks, Azure Repos

Week 5

Build Pipelines: YAML pipelines, agents, tasks, pipeline triggers

Week 6

Build Pipelines: Multi-stage pipelines, templates, artifacts, caching

Week 7

Release Pipelines: Deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling)

Week 8

Release Pipelines: Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform)

Week 9

Security: Secure DevOps, credential scanning, dependency management

Week 10

Security: GitHub Advanced Security, container scanning, SAST/DAST

Week 11

Instrumentation: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, alerts, SLIs/SLOs

Week 12

Full Review: Practice exams, hands-on pipeline labs, weak area focus

Free Resources

Microsoft Learn, Azure Free Account

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