Az-204 Develop Azure Solutions - Exam Guide

Develop Azure compute solutions (25-30%)

Implement IaaS solutions

 Provision VMs

·        Quickstart: Create a Windows virtual machine in the Azure portal

·        Tutorial: Create and Manage Windows VMs with Azure PowerShell

 configure VMs for remote access

·        How to use SSH keys with Windows on Azure

·        Secure your management ports with just-in-time access

create ARM templates

·        What are ARM templates?

·        Tutorial: Create and deploy your first ARM template

·        Understand the structure and syntax of ARM templates

·        Build Azure Resource Manager templates (Microsoft Learn)

Create container images for solutions by using Docker

·        Tutorial: Create a container image for deployment to Azure Container Instances

·        Tutorial: Create an Azure container registry and push a container image

·        Quickstart: Build and run a container image using Azure Container Registry Tasks

·        Build and store container images with Azure Container Registry (Microsoft Learn)

 publish an image to the Azure Container Registry

·        Deploy to Azure Container Instances from Azure Container Registry

·        Push your first image to a private Docker container registry using the Docker CLI

·        run containers by using Azure Container Instance

·        What is Azure Container Instances?

·        Quickstart: Deploy a container instance in Azure using Azure PowerShell

·        Run Docker containers with Azure Container Instances (Microsoft Learn)

Create Azure App Service Web Apps

·        Quickstart: Create an ASP.NET Core web app in Azure

·        Tutorial: Build an ASP.NET Core and SQL Database app in Azure App Service

·        enable diagnostics logging

·        Enable diagnostics logging for apps in Azure App Service

·        Capture Web Application Logs with App Service Diagnostics Logging (Microsoft Learn)

 deploy code to a web app

·        Deploy an Azure Web App

·        Continuous deployment to Azure App Service

·        Deploy your app to Azure App Service with a ZIP or WAR file

·        Deploy a website to Azure with Azure App Service (Microsoft Learn)

·        configure web app settings including SSL, API, and connection strings

·        Add a TLS/SSL certificate in Azure App Service

·        Secure a custom DNS name with a TLS/SSL binding in Azure App Service

·        Configure an App Service app in the Azure portal

·        az webapp config (Microsoft Reference)

·        implement autoscaling rules, including scheduled autoscaling, and scaling by operational or system metrics

·        Get started with Autoscale in Azure

·        Scale up an app in Azure App Service

Implement Azure functions

·        implement input and output bindings for a function

·        Azure Functions triggers and bindings concepts

·        Azure Functions trigger and binding example

·        Chain Azure Functions together using input and output bindings (Microsoft Learn)

·        implement function triggers by using data operations, timers, and webhooks

·        Azure Functions HTTP trigger

·        Azure Functions custom handlers (preview)

·        Create a function in Azure that is triggered by a timer

·        Timer trigger for Azure Functions

·        implement Azure Durable Functions

·        What are Durable Functions?

·        Create your first durable function in C#

·        Function chaining in Durable Functions - Hello sequence sample

 

Develop for Azure storage (10-15%)

Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage

·        select the appropriate API for your solution

·        Welcome to Azure Cosmos DB

·        Choose the appropriate API for Azure Cosmos DB (Microsoft Learn)

·        implement partitioning schemes

·        Partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB

·        Partitioning and horizontal scaling in Azure Cosmos DB

·        interact with data using the appropriate SDK

·        Tutorial: Build a .NET console app to manage data in Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account

·        Quickstart: Build a .NET web app using Azure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB

·        Quickstart: Build a Table API app with .NET SDK and Azure Cosmos DB

·        Quickstart: Build a Cassandra app with .NET SDK and Azure Cosmos DB

·        set the appropriate consistency level for operations

·        Consistency, availability, and performance tradeoffs

·        Consistency levels in Azure Cosmos DB

·        Choose the right consistency level

  create Cosmos DB containers

·        Create an Azure Cosmos container

·        Work with databases, containers, and items in Azure Cosmos DB

·        implement scaling (partitions, containers)

·        Create an Azure Cosmos DB database built to scale (Microsoft Learn)

·        Create Azure Cosmos containers and databases with autoscale throughput

·        implement server-side programming including stored procedures, triggers, and change feed notifications

·        How to write stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions in Azure Cosmos DB

Develop solutions that use blob storage

·        move items in Blob storage between storage accounts or containers

·        Transfer data with AzCopy and Blob storage

·        Copy and move blobs from one container or storage account to another from the command line and in code (Microsoft Learn)

·        set and retrieve properties and metadata

·        Manage container properties and metadata with .NET

·        Organize Azure storage blobs with properties and metadata (Microsoft Learn)

·        interact with data using the appropriate SDK

·        Quickstart: Azure Blob storage client library v12 for .NET

·        Quickstart: Manage blobs with JavaScript v12 SDK in Node.js

·        implement data archiving and retention

·        Azure Blob storage: hot, cool, and archive access tiers

·        Rehydrate blob data from the archive tier

·        Manage the Azure Blob storage lifecycle

·        implement hot, cool, and archive storage

·        Azure Blob storage: hot, cool, and archive access tiers

 

Implement Azure security (15-20%)

Implement user authentication and authorization

·        implement OAuth2 authentication

·        Authorize access to REST APIs with OAuth 2.0

·        Microsoft identity platform and OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow

·        create and implement shared access signatures

·        Delegate access with a shared access signature

·        Grant limited access to Azure Storage resources using shared access signatures (SAS)

·        register apps and use Azure Active Directory to authenticate users

·        Configure your App Service or Azure Functions app to use Azure AD login

·        Quickstart: Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform

·        control access to resources by using role-based access controls (RBAC)

·        What is Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)

·        Classic subscription administrator roles, Azure roles, and Azure AD roles

Implement secure cloud solutions

·        secure app configuration data by using the App Configuration and KeyVault API

·        Tutorial: Use a managed identity to connect Key Vault to an Azure Web App with .NET

·        Azure Key Vault Configuration Provider in ASP.NET Core

·        manage keys, secrets, and certificates by using the KeyVault API

·        About keys, secrets, and certificates

·        Secure access to a key vault

·        Configure and manage secrets in Azure Key Vault (Microsoft Learn)

·        implement Managed Identities for Azure resources

·        What are managed identities for Azure resources?

·        How to use managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions

 

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions (10-15%)

Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions

·        develop code to implement CDNs in solutions

·        What is a content delivery network on Azure?

·        Quickstart: Create an Azure CDN profile and endpoint - ARM template

·        Tutorial: Add Azure CDN to an Azure App Service web app

·        Optimize Azure CDN for the type of content delivery

·        configure cache and expiration policies for FrontDoor, CDNs, or Redis caches 

·        Caching with Azure Front Door

·        Azure Front Door Rules Engine Actions

·        Manage expiration of web content in Azure CDN

·        How to configure Azure Cache for Redis

·        Store and retrieve data in Azure Redis cache

·        Quickstart: Use Azure Cache for Redis with an ASP.NET web app

·        ASP. NET Session State Provider for Azure Cache for Redis

Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging

·        configure instrumentation in an app or service by using Application Insights

·        Application Insights for Azure cloud services

·        Start monitoring your ASP.NET Web Application

·        analyze log data and troubleshoot solutions by using Azure Monitor

·        Azure Monitor overview

·        Logs in Azure Monitor

·        Tutorial: Troubleshoot an App Service app with Azure Monitor

·        implement Application Insights Web Test and Alerts

·        Monitor the availability of any website

·        Multi-step web tests

·        Availability alerts

·        implement code that handles transient faults

·        Transient fault handling

·        Transient Fault Handling (Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Azure)

 

Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services (25-30%)

Develop an App Service Logic App

·        create a Logic App

·        Overview - What is Azure Logic Apps?

·        Introduction to Azure Logic Apps (Microsoft Learn)

·        Quickstart: Create your first automated integration workflow by using Azure Logic Apps - Azure portal

·        Tutorial: Create automated, schedule-based, recurring workflows by using Azure Logic Apps

·        create a custom connector for Logic Apps

·        Connectors for Azure Logic Apps

·        Call an API from a Logic Apps workflow using a custom connector (Microsoft Learn)

·        create a custom template for Logic Apps

·        Create logic app workflows from prebuilt templates

Implement API Management

·        create an APIM instance

·        Create a new Azure API Management service instance by using PowerShell

·        configure authentication for APIs

·        API Management authentication policies

·        Secure an Azure API Management API with Azure AD B2C

·        define policies for APIs

·        API Management policies

·        How to set or edit Azure API Management policies

·        API Management advanced policies

Develop event-based solutions

·        implement solutions that use Azure Event Grid

·        What is Azure Event Grid?

·        Quickstart: Route custom events to an Azure Function with Event Grid

·        Tutorial: Stream big data into a data warehouse

·        implement solutions that use Azure Notification Hubs

·        What is Azure Notification Hubs?

·        Tutorial: Send notifications to specific users by using Azure Notification Hubs

·        implement solutions that use Azure Event Hub

·        Azure Event Hubs — A big data streaming platform and event ingestion service

·        Quickstart: Create an event hub using Azure CLI

·        Send events to and receive events from Azure Event Hubs - .NET 

Develop message-based solutions

·        implement solutions that use Azure Service Bus

·        What is Azure Service Bus?

·        Get started with Service Bus topics

·        Use the Azure CLI to create a Service Bus namespace and a queue

·        implement solutions that use Azure Queue Storage queues

·        What are Azure queues?

·        Get started with Azure Queue storage using .NET

·        Tutorial: Work with Azure storage queues in .NET