Microsoft Azure Developer Associate Exam Prep Professional Certificate

Launch Your Career in Data Science. Learn how to create end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure and prepare for the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate AZ-204 certification exam. Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise.

Recommended experience: Learners should have 1-2 years of development experience with Microsoft Azure. They should be able to program in a language supported by Azure.

Program details:

  • 2 months to complete at 10 hours a week
  • Learn at your own pace

What you’ll learn: This Professional Certificate is intended for developers participating in all phases of cloud development from requirements, definition, and design; to development, deployment, and maintenance; to performance tuning and monitoring. This program teaches developers how to create end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure. Students will learn how to:

  • Implement Azure compute solutions
  • Create Azure Functions
  • Implement and manage web apps
  • Develop solutions utilizing Azure storage
  • Implement authentication and authorization
  • Secure their solutions by using KeyVault and Managed Identities
  • Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services
  • Include event- and message-based models in their solutions
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions

This program consists of 8 courses to help prepare you to take the Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure. Each course teaches you the concepts and skills that are measured by the exam. By the end of this program, you will be ready to take the AZ-204 certification exam.

Learners will engage in interactive exercises throughout this program that offers opportunities to practice and implement what they are learning. They use the Microsoft Learn Sandbox, a free environment that allows learners to explore Microsoft Azure and get hands-on with live Microsoft Azure resources and services.

You will need a Microsoft account. If you don’t have one, you can create one for free. The Learn Sandbox allows free, fixed-time access to a cloud subscription with no credit card required. Learners can safely explore, create, and manage resources without the fear of incurring costs or breaking production.

Skills you’ll gain:

  • Serverless Computing
  • Event-Driven Programming
  • Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Data Storage
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows PowerShell
  • Command-Line Interface
  • Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)
  • Application Deployment
  • Data Security

This Professional Certificate helps prepare you for the industry-recognized Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure. Upon completion, learners who pass all 8 courses will receive a voucher for 50% off the AZ-204 certificate exam.

Course structure: The content in the courses builds on information from earlier courses. The final course contains a practice exam that assesses your knowledge of the content covered in the previous courses. It makes the most sense to take them in the order they come in.

Completion outcomes: Upon completing the Professional Certificate, you will be able to:

  • Develop Azure compute solutions
  • Develop for Azure storage
  • Implement Azure security
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions
  • Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services

This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings, and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.

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