Learning Paths

Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204)

  • Number of Courses19 courses
  • Duration16 hours

This learning path is intended to help learners start their preparation to take the Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) certification exam.

Microsoft Azure Developers are responsible for taking part in each phase of the cloud development process. They define solution requirements and design, develop, and maintain those same solutions. Azure Developers are also responsible for performance tuning and monitoring for the solutions they create. The content in this path can help you kickstart your exam preparation and build the beginning foundation for your journey to becoming a Certified Microsoft Azure Developer Associate.

Courses in this path

Develop Azure Compute Solutions

Welcome to Pluralsight's certification learning path for the Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) certification exam! This path is structured to mimic the organization of the exam so you can more easily follow along during your study preparation.

This first section of the path covers the objectives found in the Develop Azure Compute Solutions section of the exam guide, including:

  • Implement IaaS Solutions
  • Create Azure App Service Web Apps
  • Implement Azure Functions

Microsoft Azure Developer: Introduction to the AZ-204 Exam

  • by Matthew Kruczek
  • 26m Duration
  •  (89)

Microsoft Azure Developer: Implement IaaS Solutions

  • by Anthony Nocentino
  • 1h 53m Duration
  •  (147)

Microsoft Azure Developer: Create Azure App Service Web Apps

  • by Mike Pfeiffer
  • 1h 1m Duration
  •  (155)

Microsoft Azure Developer: Implement Azure Functions

  • by Mark Heath
  • 46m Duration
  •  (145)

Exam Alert: Develop Azure Compute Solutions

  • by David Tucker
  • 30m Duration
  •  (65)

Develop for Azure Storage

This section of the path covers the objectives found in the Develop for Azure Storage section of the exam guide, including:

  • Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage
  • Develop solutions that use blob storage

Microsoft Azure Developer: Develop Solutions with Cosmos DB Storage

  • by David Tucker
  • 56m Duration
  •  (82)

Microsoft Azure Developer: Develop Solutions with Blob Storage

  • by Thomas Claudius Huber
  • 1h 17m Duration
  •  (122)

Exam Alert: Develop for Azure Storage

  • by David Tucker
  • 23m Duration
  •  (48)

Implement Azure Security

This section of the path covers the objectives found in the Implement Azure Security section of the exam guide, including:

  • Implement user authentication and authorization
  • Implement secure cloud solutions

Microsoft Azure Developer: Implement User Authentication and Authorization

  • by Sahil Malik
  • 1h 42m Duration
  •  (152)

Microsoft Azure Developer: Implement Secure Cloud Solutions

  • by Reza Salehi
  • 1h 5m Duration
  •  (89)

Exam Alert: Implement Azure Security

  • by David Tucker
  • 25m Duration
  •  (33)

Monitor, Troubleshoot, and Optimize Azure Solutions

This section of the path covers the objectives found in the Monitor, Troubleshoot, and Optimize Azure Solutions section of the exam guide, including:

  • Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions
  • Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging

Microsoft Azure Developer: Integrate Caching and Content Delivery

  • by James Millar
  • 46m Duration
  •  (75)

Microsoft Azure Developer: Instrument Solutions for Monitoring and Logging

  • by Daniel Krzyczkowski
  • 54m Duration
  •  (88)

Exam Alert: Monitor, Troubleshoot, and Optimize Azure Solutions

  • by David Tucker
  • 25m Duration
  •  (23)

Connect To and Consume Azure Services and Third-Party Services

This section of the path covers the objectives found in the Monitor, Troubleshoot, and Optimize Azure Solutions section of the exam guide, including:

  • Implement API management
  • Develop event-based solutions
  • Develop message-based solutions

Microsoft Azure Developer: Implement API Management

  • by Daniel Krzyczkowski
  • 43m Duration
  •  (146)

Microsoft Azure Developer: Develop Event-based Solutions

  • by Matthew Soucoup
  • 1h 7m Duration
  •  (74)

Microsoft Azure Developer: Develop Message-based Solutions

  • by David Tucker
  • 55m Duration
  •  (76)

Exam Alert: Connect to and Consume Azure Services and Third-Party Services

  • by David Tucker
  • 26m Duration
  •  (29)

Preparing to Take the Exam

In this course, you'll learn how to best prepare to take the Developing Solutions on Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) exam.

Microsoft Azure Developer: Preparing to Take the AZ-204 Exam

  • by Matthew Kruczek
  • 35m Duration
  •  (53)

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Mike Pfeiffer
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Mike Pfeiffer is a twenty year IT industry veteran, published author, and international conference speaker. He's a former architect for Amazon Web Services and engineer for Microsoft. Today Pfeiffer serves as Chief Technologist at CloudSkills.io.
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Mark Heath is a software developer based in Southampton, England, working for NICE Systems as a software architect creating cloud based digital evidence management systems for the police. He is the creator of NAudio, an open source audio framework for .NET. He is passionate about continually improving his skills and training other developers, and in recent years has been particularly focused on the challenges of creating scalable and reliable Azure-deployed systems. In his (very limited) spare t... more
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David is a Webby Award winning cloud development consultant that focuses on cloud native web, mobile, and IoT applications. For over fifteen years as a consultant David has led custom software development on emerging platforms for companies such as FedEx, AT&T, Sony Music, Intel, Comcast, Herman Miller, Principal Financial, and Adobe (as well as many others). David regularly writes and speaks on the digital landscape with published works for O'Reilly and Lynda.com. He has written for Mashable,... more
Thomas Claudius Huber
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Sahil Malik
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Reza Salehi
Reza Salehi
Reza is a cloud consultant and a Microsoft Certified Trainer alumni. He started professional software development and training over two decades ago and is passionate about cloud technologies. Reza continues to help his clients moving to the cloud and loves to share his passion for the cloud with the developers and software architects through training.
James Millar
James Millar
James Millar is a freelance software development consultant based in Malmesbury, England who has worked for some of the world’s biggest brands. He started his career over a decade ago writing training materials for Microsoft and moved into industry to further develop his skills. Having worked for multiple industries including automotive and process automation has been fortunate enough to work on some major projects operating at global scale. He has a passion for back end services and infrastruct... more
Daniel Krzyczkowski
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Daniel is a Principal Software Engineer at Predica living in Warsaw (Poland) focused on implementation of solutions using Microsoft technologies. He started his journey with sharing knowledge as a Microsoft Student Partner at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw. Daniel was awarded with Microsoft Most Valuable Professional title. Daniel loves to share his knowledge and passion about Microsoft Azure, Universal Windows Platform, Internet of Things, and Azure DevOps. He w... more
Matthew Soucoup
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Matthew is a Microsoft and Xamarin MVP from Madison, WI. He founded his company, Code Mill Technologies, and the Madison Mobile .NET Developers Group. Matt loves mobile development. At Code Mill, he creates elegant cross-platform mobile apps. For fun, Matt shares his passion for mobile and cloud development by blogging, writing articles, and presenting at conferences such as Xamarin Evolve, CodeMash, and That Conference. When not behind a computer screen, Matt gardens hot peppers, rides bikes, a... more

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