40511: Microsoft Cloud Workshop: Continuous Delivery in Azure DevOps

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in designing continuous-delivery solutions in Azure DevOps using repositories, branching, builds, tests, artifacts, environments, approvals, releases, governance, and monitoring. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Define delivery goals, applications, environments, dependencies, risks, release frequency, ownership, and success measures
• Design repositories, branching, pull requests, policies, versioning, commits, reviews, and traceability
• Create build pipelines with agents, variables, templates, dependencies, compilation, tests, scans, and artifacts
• Apply quality gates, test evidence, package management, secrets, caching, reproducibility, and failure handling
• Configure environments, stages, approvals, checks, deployment groups, service connections, and release strategies
• Implement blue-green, canary, rolling, feature-flag, rollback, database, and infrastructure deployment patterns
• Apply permissions, audit, segregation of duties, retention, compliance, monitoring, alerts, and incident ownership
• Measure lead time, failure rate, recovery, quality, reliability, bottlenecks, adoption, and improvement actions

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.