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AZ-400 Deep Dive: Azure Pipelines, Security Scanning, and Artifact Management

Advanced AZ-400 deep dive covering YAML pipeline templates, deployment job lifecycle hooks, GitHub Actions vs Azure Pipelines feature parity, Azure Artifacts feeds, and Defender for DevOps configuration.

# AZ-400 Deep Dive: Azure Pipelines, Security Scanning, and Artifact Management The AZ-400 exam goes well beyond basic pipeline creation. You need to understand the difference between template types, how `extends` creates a security boundary, when to choose Microsoft-hosted vs self-hosted agents, how deployment jobs work with lifecycle hooks, and why workload identity federation is preferred over service principals for …
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