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title: AZ-400 Labs
description: "Lab exercises for AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions. Includes Applied Skills, Microsoft Learn, and Microsoft GitHub labs."
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**Applied Skills:**

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Applied Skills on Microsoft Learn are practical, hands-on exercises designed to help users build and demonstrate proficiency in specific technologies or tasks. These small labs focus on solving real-world scenarios, reinforcing learning through direct application of skills, and preparing users for industry roles or certifications.
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### Implement security through a pipeline using Azure DevOps

### Manage GitHub secret scanning by using GitHub Copilot

### Automate Azure Load Testing by using GitHub Actions

### Resolve GitHub issues by using GitHub Copilot

**Microsoft Learn:**

:::note
Microsoft Learn Sandboxes require you to bring in your own subscription.
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### Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos

### Create a CI workflow on GitHub

### Set up service connections

### Create and manage variable groups

### Create Bicep templates

### Deploy a Bicep file from Azure Pipelines

### Deploy a Bicep file from GitHub workflows

**Microsoft GitHub:**

:::note
Microsoft GitHub labs are series of labs designed to be used in Microsoft Instructor Lead Trainings delivered by Microsoft Certified Trainers where participants also have access to the environment to perform them. This means that for everyone else, it is necessary to bring your own environment to go through them.
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### Validate lab environment

### Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards

### Version Control with Git in Azure Repos

### Configure agent pools and understand pipeline styles

### Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

### Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD

### Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps

### Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML

### Control Deployments using Release Gates

### Set up and run functional tests

### Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

### Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags

### Deployments using Azure Bicep templates

### Package Management with Azure Artifacts

### Monitor Application Performance with Azure Load Testing

### Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki