What you'll learn:
- Students will be prepared to take on the AZ-204 exam
- Students will learn aspects which relate to the exam objectives
- Students will learn how to develop .NET applications that interact with Azure services
- Students will learn how to deploy applications using Azure services
Course Updates
v 2.0 - April 2024
A complete course refresh has been conducted for the course. All videos of the course have been updated. This was done to align the course with any newer changes to the exam objective. And to also align the videos with any changes to the Azure services.
All diagrams that have been shown in the videos have also been updated to have a more seamless and refreshed look with the Azure services.
Practice Tests have also been updated. All older questions have been removed and replaced with newer questions.
This course is designed for students to prepare for the AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure exam.
The various objectives and chapters that will be covered include
Develop Azure compute solutions
This course breaks this topic into multiple sections. We will first cover how to deploy applications onto Azure virtual machines as the first compute solution method. Then we will look at the PaaS service , i.e. Azure Web Apps. We will see how to publish web applications onto the Azure Web App service.Then we will see how we can connect a web application to an Azure SQLdatabase instance. And finally we will look at the Azure Function App service. We will look at hosting functions. And see how to connect the Functions onto an Azure SQL database.
Develop for Azure storage
Again , we will break this topic into 2 sections. One is for the Azure Storage Account service and the other is for the Azure Cosmos DBservice. We will look at each service in detail. And then we will see how to use .NET 8.0 to interact with each service.
Implement Azure security
Again , we will break this topic into 2 sections. In the first section, we will focus on understanding Azure Active Directory and how we assign permissions. Then we will see how to work with Application Objects and then with Managed Identities.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions
In this section, we will first cover monitoring. We will look at aspects such as working with Azure Monitor and then Application Insights. And then finally look at the caching services like Azure Redis Cache and Azure CDN.
Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services
In this final section, we will cover important aspects services like Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.
