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Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

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.

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.

Important

The English language version of this exam was updated on July 27, 2026. Review the study guide linked in the “Tip” box for details on upcoming changes. If a localized version of this exam is available, it will be updated approximately eight weeks after this date. While Microsoft makes every effort to update localized versions as noted, there may be times when the localized versions of this exam are not updated on this schedule.

Passing score: 700. Learn more about exam scores.

Tip

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Part of the requirements for: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Related exams: none

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  • AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

    Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Traditional), Italian

    Retirement date: none

    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.

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Assessed on this exam

  • The English language version of this exam was updated on July 27, 2026. Review the study guide linked in the preceding “Tip” box for details about the skills measured and upcoming changes.
  • 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%)
  • Implement an instrumentation strategy (5–10%)

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    As a DevOps engineer, you design and implement strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.

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