Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) Practice Exam

Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) exam is for candidates who are familiar with participating in all phases of development, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.

Who should take the exam?

Candidates for Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) should be proficient in Azure:

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

It is required to have at least two years of professional development experience and experience with Azure. Further, you should be:

• Able to program in an Azure-supported language.
• Familiar using Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and other tools.

For implementing solutions, you partner with:

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

Exam Details of Microsoft AZ-204

• Exam Code: AZ-204
• Exam Name: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
• Exam Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Indonesian (Indonesia), Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
• Exam Questions: 40-60 Questions
• Passing Score: 700 or greater (On a scale 1 - 1000)

AZ-204 Exam Course Outline 

The Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) Exam covers the given topics  - 

Domain 1: Developing Azure compute solutions (25–30%)

Implementing containerized solutions

• Creating and managing container images for solutions
• Publishing an image to Azure Container Registry
• Running containers by using Azure Container Instance
• Creating solutions by using Azure Container Apps

Implementing Azure App Service Web Apps

• Creating an Azure App Service Web App
• Enabling diagnostics logging
• Deploying code to a web app
• Configuring web app settings including Transport Layer Security (TLS), API settings, and connection strings
• Implementing autoscaling

Implementing Azure Functions

• Creating and configuring an Azure Functions app
• Implementing input and output bindings
• Implementing function triggers by using data operations, timers, and webhooks

Domain 2: Learn how to Develop for Azure storage (15–20%)

Developing solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB

• Performing operations on containers and items by using the SDK
• Setting the appropriate consistency level for operations
• Implementing change feed notifications

Developing solutions that use Azure Blob Storage

• Setting and retrieving properties and metadata
• Performing operations on data by using the appropriate SDK
• Implementing storage policies and data lifecycle management
• Implementing static website hosting

Domain 3: Implementing Azure security (20–25%)

Implementing user authentication and authorization

• Authenticating and authorizing users by using the Microsoft Identity platform
• Authenticating and authorizing users and apps by using Microsoft Entra ID
• Creating and implementing shared access signatures
• Implementing solutions that interact with Microsoft Graph

Implementing secure Azure solutions

• Securing app configuration data by using App Configuration or Azure Key Vault
• Developing code that uses keys, secrets, and certificates stored in Azure Key Vault
• Implementing Managed Identities for Azure resources

Domain 4: Understand Monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure solutions (15–20%)

Implementing caching for solutions

• Configuring cache and expiration policies for Azure Cache for Redis
• Implement secure and optimized application cache patterns including data sizing, connections, encryption, and expiration
• Implement Azure Content Delivery Network endpoints and profiles

Troubleshooting solutions by using Application Insights

• Configuring an app or service to use Application Insights
• Monitoring and analyzing metrics, logs, and traces
• Implementing Application Insights web tests and alerts

Domain 5: Learn how to Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services (15–20%)

Implementing API Management

• Creating an Azure API Management instance
• Creating and documenting APIs
• Configuring access to APIs
• Implementing policies for APIs

Developing event-based solutions

• Implementing solutions that use Azure Event Grid
• Implementing solutions that use Azure Event Hub

Developing message-based solutions

• Implementing solutions that use Azure Service Bus
• Implementing solutions that use Azure Queue Storage queues