AZ-204: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions

Explore Azure's IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings and learn to access resources via the portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, mobile app, and REST API, plus resource groups and regions.

Explore infrastructure as a service with Azure virtual machines, covering hypervisor-based virtualization, Windows and Linux OS options, VM types and sizing for diverse workloads, and regional availability and storage considerations.

Learn how Azure Resource Manager uses arm templates to deploy, update, and delete resources, and build modular deployments with parameters, json templates, and parameter files.

Discover how to scale Azure app services with scale up and scale out, configure autoscale rules based on cpu or memory, and preserve session state with SQL or Redis.

Learn how Cosmos DB uses multi-master deployments to bring data closer to users while configuring strong, eventual, or consistent prefix levels for global availability.

Explore Azure Blob Storage within a general purpose v2 storage account. Create containers and blobs, and manage hot, cool, or archive tiers via https, rest API, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.

Learn to interact with Azure storage blobs using Storage Explorer, Xcopy, Azure CLI, and Azure PowerShell to upload and download, and configure write once, read many policies and blob metadata.

Learn how Azure AD acts as an identity provider for applications, handling authentication and authorization with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, and how app registrations enable access control.

Explore Azure Key Vault to securely store secrets, keys, and certificates with REST API access for integration with other services and Azure resources.

Leverage Azure Key Vault to hide connection strings as secrets and reference them securely from a web app, configure system identity access policies, and validate seamless app database connectivity.