Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
The AZ-400: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification is an expert-level credential that validates your subject matter expertise in designing and implementing DevOps practices, including collaboration, continuous integration, delivery, and monitoring on Microsoft Azure, requiring active AZ-104 or AZ-204 certification and annual renewal to maintain status .
Details
The AZ-400: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification is an expert-level credential designed to validate your subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations. This exam is ideal for students who already hold the Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Developer Associate certification and want to advance their careers by demonstrating the ability to design and implement Microsoft DevOps solutions. The certification covers five core areas: configuring processes and communications; designing and implementing source control; designing and implementing build and release pipelines; developing a security and compliance plan; and implementing an instrumentation strategy. As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include developers, site reliability engineers, Azure administrators, and security engineers, and you must have experience both administering and developing in Azure.
The AZ-400 certification expires after one year and must be renewed to maintain active status. You can renew for free by passing an online renewal assessment during the six-month window before your certification expires. If your certification lapses, you must retake and pass the full AZ-400 exam to regain it.
Holding either an active AZ-104 or AZ-204 certification is a prerequisite for earning the Azure DevOps Engineer Expert credential. You must maintain one of these associate-level certifications before or after passing AZ-400 to officially receive the expert certification.
Professional and Business users can set certification goals and track their skill proficiency.
Preparation Courses
About The Exam
The Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) exam consists of approximately 50 questions (the exact number varies slightly from one test to another) and you have 100 minutes to complete it. You must achieve a passing score of 700 out of 1000 points to pass.
The exam mixes several question formats to assess your knowledge. You can expect the classic single-answer multiple-choice items, multiple-select questions where two or more options are correct, and drag-and-drop questions. There are also occasional yes/no questions.
You will also get case-study or scenario-based questions that present business problems requiring you to choose the best solution. And you can expect hands-on lab questions where you must perform specific tasks in a live Azure environment.