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Certification Overview
The AZ-204 exam covers critical skills for developing solutions on Azure, including implementing various Azure compute services like App Services and Functions, and managing different Azure storage solutions such as blobs and Cosmos DB. It also assesses proficiency in securing Azure applications through identity and access management, monitoring and optimizing solutions, and integrating with Azure and third-party services using various messaging and API management tools.
What This Certification Proves
This certification validates an Azure Developer's expertise in designing, building, testing, and maintaining cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure. It demonstrates proficiency in leveraging Azure compute, storage, security, and integration services to create robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions. Earning this certification is crucial for developers aiming to prove their ability to implement core Azure development tasks.
Who Should Take This Exam
Mid-level software developers, cloud engineers, or backend developers with hands-on experience in cloud application development. This exam is ideal for professionals looking to specialize in developing solutions specifically for the Microsoft Azure platform and validate their skills with a recognized industry certification.
Topic Breakdown
3 domains covering 10 questions
| Domain | Questions | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Implement Azure Security | 5 | 50% |
| Develop Azure Compute Solutions | 3 | 30% |
| Develop For Azure Storage | 2 | 20% |
Study Plans
Choose a study plan that matches your schedule and experience level
30 Days
Intensive Sprint
Week 1-2
- Master fundamentals: Implement Azure Security
- Read Microsoft official documentation
- Complete 16 questions daily
Week 3
- Deep dive: Develop Azure Compute Solutions
- Review weak areas from results
- Take 2 full-length exams
Week 4
- Review all flagged questions
- Timed exams to build stamina
- Final revision of key concepts
60 Days
Balanced Approach
Week 1-2
- Survey all exam domains
- Set up study environment
- Begin with foundational topics
Week 3-4
- Focus: Implement Azure Security
- Focus: Develop Azure Compute Solutions
- 8 questions daily
Week 5-6
- Focus: Develop For Azure Storage
- Hands-on labs if applicable
- Review explanations for wrong answers
Week 7-8
- Complete all 457 questions
- Identify and eliminate weak areas
- Take 3 full-length timed tests
90 Days
Comprehensive Study
Month 1
- Learn all exam domains at a comfortable pace
- Build strong foundational knowledge
- 6 questions daily
Month 2
- Deep dive into each domain
- Hands-on practice and labs
- Take weekly timed exams
Month 3
- Work through all 457 questions
- Identify and eliminate weak areas
- Take 3 full-length timed exams
AZ-204-Specific Tips
- Dedicate significant hands-on time to deploying, managing, and scaling various Azure compute solutions like App Services, Azure Functions, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Gain practical experience interacting with Azure Blob Storage, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Azure Cosmos DB using SDKs in your preferred programming language, focusing on data consistency and access patterns.
- Work through scenarios involving Managed Identities, Azure Key Vault for secret management, and implementing secure access controls within your applications to implement Azure security.
- Utilize Azure Monitor and Application Insights extensively; practice setting up logging, metrics, alerts, and diagnosing performance issues for monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Build solutions that connect to and consume various Azure services (e.g., Azure Event Grid, Azure Service Bus) and third-party APIs, understanding authentication and message patterns.
- Actively write code that interacts with Azure services. The exam is highly development-focused, so practical coding experience is invaluable.
- Leverage the 361 available practice questions to identify knowledge gaps and become comfortable with the exam format, ensuring you understand the rationale behind each answer.
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Sample Questions
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You are developing an application that uses keys stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to enforce a specific cryptographic algorithm and key size for keys stored in the vault. What should you use?
You create an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL database. You plan to use the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK v3 API for NoSQL to upload the following files: You receive the following error message when uploading the files: "413 Entity too large". You need to determine which files you can upload to the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL database. Which files can you upload?
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution. Determine whether the solution meets the stated goals. You develop an entertainment application where users can buy and trade virtual real estate. The application must scale to support thousands of users. The current architecture includes five Azure Virtual Machines (VM) that connect to an Azure SQL Database for account information and Azure Table Storage for backend services. A user interacts with these components in the cloud at any given time Routing Service - Routes a request to the appropriate service and must not persist data across sessions Account Service - Stores and manages all account information and authentication and requires data to persist across sessions. User Service - Stores and manages all user information and requires data to persist across sessions. Housing Network Service - Stores and manages the current real-estate economy and requires data to persist across sessions. Trade Service - Stores and manages virtual trade between accounts and requires data to persist across sessions. Due to volatile user traffic, a microservices solution is selected for scale agility. You need to migrate to a distributed microservices solution on Azure Service Fabric. Solution: Create a Service Fabric Cluster with a stateless Reliable Service for Routing Service. Create stateful Reliable Services for all other components. Does the solution meet the goal?
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this question, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. You are developing an Azure solution to collect point-of-sale (POS) device data from 2,000 stores located throughout the world. A single device can produce 2 megabytes (MB) of data every 24 hours. Each store location has one to five devices that send data. You must store the device in Azure Blob storage. Device data must be correlated based on a device identifier. Additional stores are expected to open in the future. You need to implement a solution to receive the device data. Solution: Provision an Azure Event Hub. Configure the machine identifier as the partition key and enable capture. Does the solution meet the goal?
You have implemented code that uses elastic transactions spanning across three different Azure SQL Database logical servers. Database administration report that some transactions take longer to complete than expected. You need to use the correct tool to monitor all the transactions originating from the elastic transaction implementation. Which tool should you use?
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