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Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

AzureAZ-400Expert

⏱ Duration

120 minutes

❓ Questions

40–60 (scenario + case study)

✅ Pass Score

700/1000

💰 Cost

$165 USD

📅 Valid

1 year

📋 Exam Domains & Weightage

Configure Processes & Communications

Azure Boards, work items, notifications, service connections, GitHub integration

10–15%

Design & Implement Source Control

Git branching strategies, repo security, large file storage, migrations

15–20%

Design & Implement Pipelines

Azure Pipelines (YAML), releases, approvals, gates, multi-stage, agents

40–45%

Design & Implement Deployment Strategy

Blue/green, canary, feature flags, progressive delivery, rollback

10–15%

Implement Security & Validate Code Base

SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management, compliance, Key Vault in pipelines

10–15%

🔑Requires AZ-104 or AZ-204 as prerequisite

🔑YAML pipeline syntax is essential — practice writing from scratch

🔑Annual renewal required — short online assessment

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After this certification

AZ-305 (Solutions Architect Expert) or move into SRE/platform engineering roles