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AZ-204: Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure

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Microsoft Azure Developers design, build, test and maintain cloud solutions, such as applications and services, partnering with cloud solution arch, cloud DBA’s, cloud administators, and clients to implement these solutions.

• Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

1. Implement Azure App Service Web Apps.

Azurre App Service

• HTTP-based service for web app hosting, REST API
• Built-in scale support (Scaling, Scale Out/In manually/auto)
• CICD (Azure Devops, GitHub, Bitbucket, FTP)
• Deployment slots (Targe deployments to test or prod envs, customize what settings are swapped b/w slots)
• Select App Service Plan (Free, Dev (Win only), Basic, Standard, Premium)
  • Free & Dev > Shared and Minumum compute, Not a Prod-ready.
  • App Service Pricing
• Automatic Scaling: Azure Web Apps Unleash Their Hidden Potential

2. Implement Azure Functions.

• Triggers and bindings in Azure Functions
• Pricing Functions
• Develop Azure Functions locally using Core Tools
• Azure Blob storage is MS object storage solution for the cloud. Optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data.
  • Serving images or docs directly to a browser
  • storing files for distributed access
  • Steaming video/audio
  • Writing to log files
  • Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving.
  • Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service
• Built on a unified Distributed storage system. (Files, Blobs, Tables & Queues)
• Types of Blobs
  • Block blobs: Sequential file I/O >
  • Page blobs:Random-write pattern data > VMs Dsks, VHDs
  • Append blobs: For logs.
  • Understanding block blobs, append blobs, and page blobs
  • Util - Serilog.Sinks.AzureBlobStorage

3. Develop solutions that use Blob Storage

• Reliable web app pattern for .NET - Plan the implementation
• Per-app scaling for high-density hosting - Azure App Service

4. Develop Solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB

• Common use cases and scenarios for Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Customer Story-Rockwell Automation goes cloud-native on Azure to bring modern software development paradigms to the factory floor
• Microsoft Customer Story-SdNcenter and Ascensia deliver online diabetes support globally with Azure
• Model and partition data with a real-world example - Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

5. Implement Containerzied solutions

• Manage container images in Azure Container Registry
• Run container images in Azure Container Instances
• Implement Azure Container Apps:

• [KEDA

  Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling](https://keda.sh/)

• AZ-2003: Deploy cloud-native applications using Azure Container Apps
• Practicals

  6. Implement User Authentication and Authorization

7. Implement Secure Cloud solutionss

8. Implement API managemenet

• Policies in Azure API Management
• Azure API Management policy reference

9. Develop event-based solutions

• Azure Event Hubs Event Processor client library for .NET
• Definitions: Messaging or eventing infrastructure
• Azure Service Bus trigger for Azure Functions

10. Develop message-based solutions.

• Events, Data points and Messages

11. Trobleshoot solutions by using Application Insights

• Monitor Node.js services with Application Insights - Azure Monitor

12. Implement Caching for solutions.

Exam Related

• https://aka.ms/courseaz-204
• Free exams and practice tests
• Free Azure analyst reports, e-books, and white papers
• Microsoft Learn exam readiness- Preparing for exams using resources in the Learner Experience Portal
• Enterprise Skills Initiative: The Learner Experience Portal overview
• Registering for Microsoft Virtual Training Days in the ESI Learner Experience Portal
• Scheduling a Microsoft Certification exam in the ESI Learner Experience Portal
• Registering for a Microsoft-delivered course in the ESI Learner Experience Portal
• https://ncv.microsoft.com/5W4yPHUzmp