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Exam Ref AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure, 2nd edition

Published by Microsoft Press (October 1, 2020) © 2021

  • Santiago Fernandez Munoz

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Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-204—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft Azure solutions development. Designed for working Azure developers, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

  • Develop for cloud storage
  • Create Platform as a Service (PaaS) Solutions
  • Secure cloud solutions
  • Develop for an Azure cloud model
  • Implement cloud integration solutions
  • Develop Azure Cognitive Services, Bot, and IoT solutions
  • Develop Azure Infrastructure as a Service compute solutions
  • Develop Azure Platform as a Service compute solutions
  • Develop for Azure storage
  • Implement Azure security
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize solutions
  • Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

  • Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
  • Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
  • Assumes you want to show your ability to design and build diverse Microsoft Azure cloud solutions, and successfully participate in all phases of their development
  • Authoritative and complete Exam AZ-204 preparation content, straight from Microsoft
  • Covers developing Azure IaaS and PaaS compute solutions; developing for Azure storage; implementing Azure security; monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure solutions; and leveraging Azure or third-party services
  • Organized by exam objectives for efficient study
  • Strategic, what-if scenarios help you master the big-picture thinking the exam demands
  • Contains up-to-date Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate exam preparation tips from a leading Microsoft Azure expert
Not technically a second edition, this is a revision of Exam Ref AZ-203 as Microsoft has altered the certification. Changes of the following topics in Exam AZ-204 will be addressed: 
  • Create Azure App Service Web Apps
  • Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage
  • Develop solutions that use blob storage
  • Implement user authentication and authorization
  • Implement secure cloud solutions
  • Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions
  • Develop event-based solutions

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Chapter 1 Develop Azure Infrastructure as a service compute solution 

Skill 1.1: Implement solutions that use virtual machines (VM

Skill 1.2: Create Azure App Service web apps

Skill 1.3: Implement Azure Functions

 

Chapter 2 Develop for Azure storage 

Skill 2.1: Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage

Skill 2.2: Develop solutions that use Blob Storage

 

Chapter 3 Implement Azure security 

Skill 3.1: Implement user authentication and authorization

Skill 3.2: Implement secure cloud solutions

 

Chapter 4 Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions 

Skill 4.1: Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions

Skill 4.2: Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging

 

Chapter 5 Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services 

Skill 5.1: Develop an App Service Logic App

Skill 5.2: Implement API Management

Skill 5.3: Develop event-based solutions
Skill 5.4: Develop message-based solution

Santiago Fernández Muñoz: I started my career as a Linux and Windows instructor. At the same time, I also started to learn scripting programming languages such as bash and VBS that were useful for my work. During that period of my career, I realized scripting languages were helpful, but they were not enough to meet all my needs, so I started learning other languages like Java, PHP, and finally C#.

I've been working as a Microsoft technologies consultant for the last 14 years, and over the last 6 years, I've consulted on Azure-related technologies. I've participated in different types of projects, serving in a variety of capacities from .NET developer to solution architect. Now I'm focused on developing custom industrial IoT solutions for my company and clients.


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