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• AZ-204: Course Overview

  As a candidate for this certification, you’re responsible for participating in all phases of development, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.

  This course teaches developers how to create end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure. Students will learn how to implement Azure compute solutions, create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, implement authentication and authorisation, and secure their solutions by using KeyVault and Managed Identities.

  Students will also learn how to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, and include event- and message-based models in their solutions. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimising Azure solutions.

• AZ-204: Course Modules

  Module 1: Implement Azure App Service web apps

  Module 2: Implement Azure Functions

  Module 3: Develop solutions that use Blob storage

  Module 4: Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB

  Module 5: Implement containerised solutions

  Module 6: Implement user authentication and authorisation

  Module 7: Implement secure Azure solutions

• AZ-204: Course Objectives

  After taking this course, you should be proficient in Azure:

  • SDK
  • Data storage options
  • Data connections
  • APIs
  • App authentication and authorisation
  • Compute and container deployment
  • Debugging.

  To implement solutions, you partner with:

  • Cloud solution architects
  • DBAs
  • DevOps
  • Infrastructure admins
  • Other stakeholders.

• AZ-204: Prerequisites

  Students in this course are interested in Azure development or in passing the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate certification exam.

  To be successful in this course, learners should have the following:

  • Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions, and the Azure Portal.
  • Experience writing in an Azure supported language at the intermediate level. (C#, JavaScript, Python, or Java)
  • Ability to write code to connect and perform operations on, a SQL or NoSQL database product. (SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar)
  • Experience writing code to handle authentication, authorisation, and other security principles at the intermediate level.
  • A general understanding of HTML, the HTTP protocol and REST API interfaces.

  You should also have:

  • At least two years of programming experience.
  • Proficiency in programming with Azure SDKs.
  • Proficiency using Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and other tools.