AZ-400 Designing Implementing MS DevOps Solutions 2026 Exam

Are you ready to prepare for the Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert Exam ?

As a DevOps engineer, you’re a developer or infrastructure administrator who also has subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations.

Your responsibilities for this role include delivering Microsoft DevOps solutions that provide continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring, and feedback. You design and implement flow of work, collaboration, communication, source control, and automation. This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design and implement processes and communications; design and implement a source control strategy; design and implement build and release pipelines; develop a security and compliance plan; and implement an instrumentation strategy.

As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include:

• Developers

• Site reliability engineers

• Azure administrators

• Security engineers

You must have experience both administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas. You should also have experience implementing both GitHub and Azure DevOps solutions.

Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

AZ-400 Exam Topics

1. Design and implement processes and communications (10–15%)

2. Design and implement a source control strategy (10–15%)

3. Design and implement build and release pipelines (50-55%)

4. Develop a security and compliance plan (10–15%)

5. Implement an instrumentation strategy (5–10%)