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Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204)

8 courses
6 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: Implement IaaS Solutions

by Anthony Nocentino
1h 54m
(175)

Exam Alert: Develop Azure Compute Solutions

by David Tucker
30m
(72)

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
(90)

Exam Alert: Develop for Azure Storage

by David Tucker
23m
(54)

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

Exam Alert: Implement Azure Security

by David Tucker
25m
(39)

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

Exam Alert: Monitor, Troubleshoot, and Optimize Azure Solutions

by David Tucker
25m
(29)

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: Develop Message-based Solutions

by David Tucker
55m
(90)

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

by David Tucker
26m
(35)

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.

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What you will learn:

How to develop Azure Compute solutions
How to develop for Azure Storage
How to implement Azure security
How to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions
How to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services

Experience

According to Microsoft, candidates for the AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure exam should have at least 1-2 years of professional development experience, including hands-on Azure experience. Candidates should also be able to program in an Azure-supported language and demonstrate proficiency in key Azure products such as Azure SDKs, Azure CLI, and Azure PowerShell. Candidates should also have knowledge in the following areas: performance tuning and monitoring, debugging, Azure data storage options, data connections, APIs, compute and container deployment, and app authentication and authorization.

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Anthony Nocentino

Anthony is a Principal Field Solution Architect at Pure Storage as well as a Pluralsight Author, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Linux Expert, and Corporate Problem Solver. Anthony designs solutions, deploys the technology, and provides expertise on business system performance, architecture, and security. Anthony has a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science with research publications in high performance/low latency data access algorithms and spatial database systems.

David Tucker

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

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