Standardize your team on Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions with a structured Microsoft training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.
Exams
Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$165
Every engineer on the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions path takes AZ-400.
Skills your team builds
Training path
One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.
Microsoft career ladder
The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.
DP-300
AZ-700
AZ-500
MD-102
MO-310
DP-600
SC-300
MS-721
MS-700
AZ-104
PL-300
PL-200
SC-200
AB-730
AB-731
AZ-140
AI-103
AZ-400
MO-211
MO-110
MO-210
MO-111
Assign the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see Microsoft skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.
Team capability
Standardizing your team on AZ-400 gives leadership a clear picture of Microsoft skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.
Credential: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions training for their team.
Teams often cite AZ-400 when documenting who is trained to manage source control, build pipelines and release processes, since those controls shape how changes reach production. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can serve as training evidence, while your auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping to any framework.
It fits DevOps engineers, build and release engineers, and developers or administrators responsible for delivery tooling on Microsoft platforms. A certified team can own Git repositories and branch strategy, Azure Pipelines agents and CI builds, YAML CI/CD and continuous deployment releases to cloud and on-premises targets, GitHub integration with Azure DevOps, and Docker-based pipeline preparation.
CBT Nuggets Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Microsoft's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.
From the admin console, managers assign the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.
The linked CBT Nuggets courses include about 30 hours of video. Total time depends on the team's starting point, including how much hands-on experience engineers already have with Git, Azure Pipelines and release automation.
CBT Nuggets updates Microsoft course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Microsoft restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.
