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AZ-204 Microsoft Azure Associate

Azure Developer

Develop compute and storage solutions, secure cloud apps, APIs, messaging and monitoring.

Program: Cloud & DevOps
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Exam
AZ-204
Level
Associate
Modules
Full course deck

About this class

Azure Developer teaches you to build, deploy and troubleshoot cloud applications on Azure. You work with compute options, storage, security, APIs and messaging, and learn how to instrument what you build.

The focus is on designing applications that use managed services well: scaling, authenticating and monitoring them without managing servers.

Who it's for: Software developers and DevOps-minded engineers who build or migrate applications to Azure.

Prerequisites: Programming experience in a supported language (such as C# or Python) and familiarity with REST APIs.

Career roles

  • Cloud developer
  • Backend / API developer
  • Solutions developer
  • DevOps-oriented developer

What you will learn

Industry trends: why this matters now

Serverless and event-driven design

Functions, Event Grid and Service Bus let teams build scalable systems without managing servers.

Containers everywhere

Container-based hosting is now a mainstream deployment target for new and modernised applications.

Secretless security

Managed identities and Key Vault are replacing embedded passwords and connection strings.

Observability

Telemetry, tracing and alerting are expected parts of a production-ready application.

Your certification pathway

  1. AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
    Optional foundation
  2. AZ-204 Azure Developer This class
    Build and run applications on Azure
  3. Next steps
    AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert or AZ-305 Solutions Architect Expert

This class follows the skills measured by AZ-204. Passing earns the Azure Developer Associate certification, which is a common qualification for cloud application roles and a step towards Expert-level credentials.

Class schedule

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