Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-204 Exam Guide: Discover the essentials for success when developing and maintaining cloud-based solutions on Azure
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Packt Publishing
With the prevalence of cloud technologies and DevOps ways of working, the industry demands developers who can build cloud solutions and monitor them throughout their life cycle. Becoming a Microsoft-certified Azure developer can differentiate developers from the competition, but with such a plethora of information available, it can be difficult to structure learning in an effective way to obtain certification.
Through easy-to-understand explanations and exercises, this book will provide a more palatable learning experience than what you may expect from an exam preparation book. You'll start off with a recap of some important cloud concepts, such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. From there, you'll learn about each relevant solution area, with use cases. The chapters also cover different implementation methodologies, both manual and programmatic ranging from compute resources such as App Service and serverless applications to storage, database, security, monitoring solutions, and connecting to third-party services.
By the end of this book, you'll have learned everything you need to pass the AZ-204 certification exam and have a handy, on-the-job reference guide.
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"One of my duties as a sales engineer is to know how different public clouds work and how to leverage their internal features. The growth in Azure in the last few years has been impressive. So, it's the right moment to start exploring, architecting, leveraging, and being certified on Azure, and this book is the right companion for this path! It is concise, practical, and full of examples and exercises!"
--Christian Ferranti, Technical Sales Engineer, GlobalDots
About the Author
Paul Ivey is a Microsoft Technical Trainer delivering Microsoft exam preparation courses on a regular basis. Prior to that, he became an expert in on-premises Microsoft infrastructure and Windows technologies before changing focus to cloud technologies and application development, where he was an App Innovation Customer Engineer. As an App Innovation Customer Engineer at Microsoft, Paul worked with many enterprises to help them modernize their development practices and help them on their digital transformation journey into the cloud. Paul has also coached many of Microsofts DevOps OpenHack events over the years. Originally from Sidmouth, Devon, Paul currently lives in Cheltenham within the beautiful Cotswolds area of the UK.
Alex Ivanov is an experienced cloud engineer with a primary focus of supporting companies in their journey to adopt Azure services. He has been working for Microsoft for 8 years as a Cloud Support Engineer and 4 years as an Azure Technical Trainer. He became an expert in software engineering and digital transformation that helped customers to migrate their solutions to Azure. His experience helped him achieve multiple certifications in Software Development, AI, and Data platforms. As a professional trainer, Alex has already educated thousands of clients and helped them to prepare and pass the Azure certification exams. In his free time while not being jumped on by his 3 kids, he enjoys camping, boating, running, and building yachts models.
- Develop Azure compute solutions
- Discover tips and tricks from Azure experts for interactive learning
- Use Cosmos DB storage and blob storage for developing solutions
- Develop secure cloud solutions for Azure
- Use optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting for Azure solutions
- Develop Azure solutions connected to third-party services
This book is for Azure developers looking to improve their Azure development knowledge to pass the AZ-204 exam. This book assumes at least one year of professional development experience with Azure, with the ability to program in at least one language supported by Azure. Existing Azure CLI and PowerShell skills will also be useful.
- Azure and Cloud Fundamentals
- Implementing IaaS Solutions
- Creating Azure App Service Web Apps
- Implementing Azure Functions
- Developing Solutions That Use Cosmos DB Storage
- Developing Solutions That Use Azure Blob Storage
- Implementing User Authentication and Authorization
- Implementing Secure Cloud Solutions
- Integrating Caching and Content Delivery within Solutions
- Troubleshooting Solutions by Using Metrics and Log Data
- Implementing API Management
- Developing Event-Based Solutions
- Developing Message-Based Solutions
- Mock Exam Questions
