AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Vol -1 Third Edition

About Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Azure Developer Associate

Exam Questions	Case study, short answer, repeated answer, MCQs
Number of Questions	80-100
Time to Complete	120 minutes
Exam Fee	165 USD

The Microsoft Certified: Candidates for the Azure Developer Associate certification should have subject matter expertise in designing, building, testing, and maintaining cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities for this role include participating in all phases of cloud development from requirements, definition, and design; to development, deployment, and maintenance; to performance tuning and monitoring. Azure developers partner with cloud solution architects, cloud DBAs, cloud administrators, and clients to implement solutions.

A candidate for this certification should have 1-2 years of professional development experience and experience with Microsoft Azure. In addition, the candidate for this role should have the ability to program in a language supported by Azure and proficiency in Azure SDKs, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, data storage options, data connections, APIs, app authentication and authorization, compute and container deployment, debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring.

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks:

1. Develop Azure compute solutions (25-30%)
2. Develop for Azure storage (15-20%)
3. Implement Azure security (20-25%)
4. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions (15-20%)
5. Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services (15-20%)

 

Recommended Knowledge

1. Implement IaaS Solutions
2. Create Azure App Service Web App
3. Implement Azure Functions
4. Develop Solutions that use Cosmos DB storage
5. Implement user authentication and authorization
6. Implement secure cloud solutions
7. Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions
8. Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging
9. Implement API management
10. Develop event-based solutions
11. Develop message-based solutions

All the required information is included in this technology workbook.

	Domain	Percentage
Domain 1	Develop Azure compute solutions	25-30%
Domain 2	Develop for Azure storage	15-20%
Domain 3	Implement Azure security	20-25%
Domain 4	Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions	15-20%
Domain 5	Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services	15-20%