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Exam AZ-401: Designing and Implementing Microsoft Agentic DevOps Solutions (beta)

As a Microsoft agentic 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 to organizations. You enhance DevOps processes by integrating AI assistance tools.

Your responsibilities for this role include delivering Microsoft DevOps solutions that provide continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and feedback. You design flow of work, collaboration, communication, source control, automation and implement the solution by using AI assistance.

As an agentic DevOps engineer, you collaborate with other roles including:

  • Developers
  • Site reliability engineers
  • Platform engineers
  • Azure administrator
  • Security engineers

You must have strong skills in either administering or developing solutions using Microsoft technologies. You should have practical experience with code languages used in DevOps, including YAML, KQL, and Bicep. You should also have experience implementing both Azure DevOps and GitHub solutions using Microsoft and GitHub AI tools.

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Passing score: 700. Learn more about exam scores.. Beta exams are not scored immediately because we’re gathering data on the quality of the questions and the exam. Learn more about beta certification exams.

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Part of the requirements for: Microsoft Certified: Agentic DevOps Engineer Expert (beta)

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  • AZ-401: Designing and Implementing Microsoft Agentic DevOps Solutions (beta)

    Languages: English

    Retirement date: none

    This exam validates your ability to design, implement, and optimize AI-assisted DevOps solutions across Azure DevOps and GitHub.

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    for Designing and Implementing Microsoft Agentic DevOps Solutions (beta)

    All objectives of the exam are covered in depth so you'll be ready for any question on the exam.

Assessed on this exam

  • Design and implement processes and communications (15–20%)
  • Design and implement a source control strategy (10–15%)
  • Design and implement build and release pipelines (35–40%)
  • Design and implement a security and compliance plan (15–20%)
  • Implement an instrumentation strategy (15–20%)

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