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.

Deploy a new virtual machine in the Azure portal by selecting a resource group, region, image, size, and authentication, then configure a virtual network, public IP, and network security group.

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.

Understand how containers virtualize applications and use Docker to build and run lightweight images with multi-stage Dockerfiles, including commands like Docker build, run, and rmi.

Explore Azure container registry to store containers in a registry and enable access for deployment. Tag and push images with Docker commands and use registry tasks to update base images.

Explore Azure app service plans and web apps as a paas for hosting http based applications, with scalable deployment slots, ci/cd, and git-based deployments.

Explore configuring an Azure web app's app service plan, including language startup, connection strings with key vault, ssl/tls, custom domains, and diagnostic/monitoring settings.

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.

Discover Azure functions as a serverless compute option using triggers and bindings. Build a first function in the portal with Http trigger and learn about the basics.

Explore durable functions in Azure, turning stateless functions into a stateful workflow by chaining activity and entity functions, using bindings and triggers, and implementing fan-in fan-out patterns.

Explore Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed NoSQL database with multiple APIs, throughputs, and partitions; see partition keys, logical and physical partitions, and a multi-region demo in portal and CLI.

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.

Explore shared access signatures for Azure storage blobs, including account, service, and user delegated SAS, and learn to generate and test SAS tokens in the portal.

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.

Learn to grant secure access from one Azure resource to another using managed identities, enabling authentication and authorization with system or user assigned identities and Key Vault access policies.

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.