How to prepare for AZ-204 Developing for Microsoft Azure Certification Exam

 

Here is the list of learning path to prepare for AZ-204 Developing for Microsoft Azure exam from my personal experience.

• First foremost, subscribe to free Azure plan for portal, this will give you free access for some services for 30 days and for others 12 months access. you can browse through Azure portal and see its services. Exam expects 2 years experience of MS Azure, but if you just starting and want to go ahead with learning, you need to start from somewhere and this should be your first step.
• Take a Udemy course if you can buy one, go through all modules once. For absolute beginner, this is good step as the good instructor will quickly guide you through all the steps/services and give you a general idea of the content. However these courses are never comprehensive. you should go through them again and again if you are beginner or don’t have enough knowledge about a certain topic. you might want to go through different courses on plural site or Youtube (free) for improve on certain topics.
• Start with Exam Guide given on Microsoft’s website and take one section at a time, for example, Azure Compute Solutions and read about each sub-bullet at a time.
• Refer to Microsoft Documentation. I will list down all the helpful links here. Microsoft documentation is the most up to date and helpful as it has beginner level to advanced level documentation. As Azure is changing everyday, portal and features, this is the most up to date information source for exam
• Microsoft Learn is a great sources of quick learning with lab experience, it doesn’t even require you to have an azure subscription and creates a sandbox environment for you to follow along all the steps in learn. I found it very helpful as it shows you a working version of something and how that service can be useful. Select Developer role for Azure product and see the list of learning paths and modules
• you can also refer to Azure books, but you might need to jump between all these resources when reading about a particular topic.
• Github repositories and samples are great source to get the idea of how these tasks are practically accomplished and which SDK and client libraries are used. Most importantly which classes are used to access Azure management resources and client interfaces.
• Need not to say, you would need some tools like Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio to run/debug the code. Powershell and CLI would be required too as you should have general idea of the structure, syntax and service name/commands with required parameters etc for each service.
• i will keep posting on this site about different topics and tips. keep visiting for updated content and Good luck