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. The certification covers five core areas: Design Processes, Implement Source Control, Implement Pipelines, Develop Security Plans and Implement Instrumentation. 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.
Preparation Materials
The AZ-400 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.