AZ-204 Exam Preparation: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

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Description

This learning path is designed to help you prepare for the AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure exam. Even if you don't plan to take the exam, these courses will help you gain a solid understanding of developing applications on Azure. Candidates who pass the AZ-204 exam will earn the Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate certification.

The AZ-204 exam tests your knowledge of five subject areas. Here’s how we’ll cover them in this learning path. We’ll start with developing compute solutions, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Function-as-a-Service. Next, we’ll get into developing for Azure storage. This includes blob storage, which is for storing unstructured data, and Cosmos DB, which is a NoSQL datastore. Then, you’ll learn how to implement security, including authentication, authorization, and managed identities. After that, you’ll learn how to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your solutions. Finally, we’ll cover how to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services.

Learning Objectives

Develop Azure compute solutions
Develop for Azure storage
Implement Azure security
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions
Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services

Intended Audience

People who want to become Azure developers
People preparing for Microsoft’s AZ-204 exam

Prerequisites

Software development experience
Microsoft Azure experience

Certificate

Your certificate for this learning path

Training Content

1

Course - Beginner - 4m

AZ-204 Exam Preparation - Introduction

This introduction to the AZ-204 Exam Preparation learning path gives an overview of the requirements for the Microsoft AZ-204 exam and how they will be covered.

2

Course - Beginner - 50m

Overview of Azure Services

This course gives an overview of the services available on Azure and shows how to create virtual machines and web apps using the Azure CLI and Azure Portal.

3

Exam - 30m

Knowledge Check: Overview of Azure Services

Knowledge Check: Overview of Azure Services

4

Course - Beginner - 1h 22m

Getting Started with Azure App Service

This course explains how to quickly and easily set up a website and publish apps using Azure App Service.

5

Exam - 20m

Knowledge Check: Getting Started with Azure App Service

Knowledge Check: Getting Started with Azure App Service

6

Hands-on Lab - Intermediate - 1h 45m

Deploying And Monitoring Azure App Service Web Apps

Deploy an app to Azure App Service Web Apps in this Lab and use a variety of services to monitor the app and send alerts when certain conditions are met.

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7

Course - Intermediate - 29m

Building Containers with Azure DevOps

This course is designed to give you a solid understanding of containers and how they are used in Azure DevOps.

8

Course - Beginner - 1h 13m

Designing Azure Solutions Using Platform Services

This course is focused on creating practical solutions using Azure technologies in areas such as AI, messaging, the Internet of Things, and video media.

9

Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 40m

Creating a Topic and Subscription in Azure Service Bus

In this Hands-On lab you will learn how to create a namespace, topic, and subscription in Azure Service Bus.

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10

Course - Intermediate - 46m

Introduction to Azure Functions

This course is an introduction to Azure Functions and explains how they can be used.

11

Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 15m

Integrate Services with Azure Function Apps

Test your skills in Integrate Services using Azure Functions Apps using this hands-on Lab

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12

Course - Beginner - 49m

Introduction to Azure Storage

In this course, you will learn how to use the core Azure Storage services as building blocks for Azure applications and virtual machines.

13

Exam - 20m

Knowledge Check: Introduction to Azure Storage

Knowledge Check: Introduction to Azure Storage

14

Course - Intermediate - 31m

Managing Azure Blob Storage

The course begins with a brief review of Azure Storage Accounts and then drills down into the details of blobs storage services, highlighting the different kinds of blobs.

15

Hands-on Lab - Intermediate - 2h 10m

Working with Azure Storage Using PowerShell

Working with Azure Storage using PowerShell, you will explore the different storage types, manage storage account keys, and generate shared access signatures.

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16

Course - Beginner - 1h 8m

Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB

This course shows how to make use of Cosmos DB's incredible flexibility and performance tools on Microsoft Azure.

17

Hands-on Lab - Intermediate - 1h 30m

Developing with the Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API and Change Feed

In this Lab, you will learn how to manage Cosmos DB using the Azure Portal and Azure CLI as you integrate Azure Functions with Cosmos DB change feed triggers to buy and sell fictitious stocks.

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18

Course - Intermediate - 52m

Introduction to Azure Resource Manager

This course introduces you to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and how to use it for processing templates that specify resource deployments.

19

Exam - 20m

Knowledge Check: Introduction to Azure Resource Manager

Knowledge Check: Introduction to Azure Resource Manager

20

Hands-on Lab - Intermediate - 2h

Azure Resource Manager Templates In Depth

In this lab, you will first create a Windows virtual machine using an Azure Resource Manager template, and then you will improve the template using several additional ARM features.

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21

Course - Advanced - 1h 41m

Designing for Azure Identity Management

In this course, you'll learn how to implement and deploy identity management on Azure to better protect your organization with this expertly instructed training content.

22

Hands-on Lab - Intermediate - 2h

Azure Key Vault and Disk Encryption

Learn about Azure Key Vault to store keys/secrets used for encrypting an Azure Virtual Machine in a hands-on Lab environment

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23

Course - Beginner - 44m

Developing for Autoscaling on Azure

In this course, you'll develop your skills for autoscaling on Azure, work with transient faults, and learn how to problem solve autoscaling.

24

Course - Intermediate - 40m

Integrating Redis Cache and CDN on Azure

This course provides an overview of Redis Cache and how to create a Redis Cache instance in Azure.

25

Course - Beginner - 43m

Designing for Azure Operations

In this course, you'll learn how to configure monitoring and alerting for software applications in Azure, and how to implement autoscaling and automate system tasks,

26

Hands-on Lab - Beginner - 1h 30m

Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor

Learn to leverage Azure Monitor to diagnose application and infrastructure with logs, query logs with Azure log queries, and leverage alerts and action groups

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27

Course - Advanced - 54m

Configuring Azure API Management

This course deals with how to deploy, configure, and manage some keys aspects of Azure API management (APIM).

28

Hands-on Lab - Intermediate - 1h 30m

Azure API Management Policies and Security

This lab explores Azure API Management capabilities related to security and policies, API Management's feature to change API behavior through configuration.

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29

Course - Intermediate - 7m

AZ-204 Exam Preparation - Additional Topics

This course explains some additional topics you should make sure you understand before taking the AZ-204 exam.

30

Resource - Beginner - 30m

Required Reading for Microsoft AZ-204 Exam

31

Exam - 2h 30m

Cert Prep: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204)

Cert Prep: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204)

About the Author

Guy Hummel

Azure and Google Cloud Content Lead

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Guy launched his first training website in 1995 and he's been helping people learn IT technologies ever since. He has been a sysadmin, instructor, sales engineer, IT manager, and entrepreneur. In his most recent venture, he founded and led a cloud-based training infrastructure company that provided virtual labs for some of the largest software vendors in the world. Guy’s passion is making complex technology easy to understand. His activities outside of work have included riding an elephant and skydiving (although not at the same time).