AZ-204 Azure Developer Certification Training Course
Length
5 days / 5 weeks
Price
$3499
Days
Mon - Fri
Why Choose This Course
AZ-204 is designed for developers who build, test, and maintain cloud applications on Microsoft Azure. The course focuses on practical, exam‑aligned skills across compute, storage, security, monitoring, and service integration so you can design and implement end‑to‑end solutions using Azure App Service, Azure Functions, containers, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, identity, and messaging. It aligns directly to the Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate pathway and the skills measured in the current exam update, ensuring you prepare with the latest coverage expected of the role. A certificate of course attendance is included.
Across the week, you’ll learn how to deploy resilient workloads, secure secrets and identities, build serverless and containerized applications, integrate APIs and event‑driven patterns, and instrument solutions for observability. The content reflects real Azure implementation practices and the current study guide published by Microsoft, including domains such as developing Azure compute solutions, building for Azure storage, implementing Azure security, monitoring and optimization, and connecting to Azure and third‑party services. This helps you apply exam objectives to workplace scenarios without hype, while improving confidence with SDKs, CLI, PowerShell and managed services used daily by Azure developers.
Industry demand for Azure development skills remains strong as organizations modernize applications and adopt cloud‑native patterns. By learning to use services like Key Vault, Managed Identities, API Management, Event Grid, Service Bus, and Application Insights, you can contribute to secure, scalable solutions that align with architectural guidance and developer workflows. The course content emphasizes practical value—configuring CI/CD-friendly deployments, handling data consistency in Cosmos DB, optimizing performance and cost, and building observable apps that meet operational expectations. A certificate of course attendance is included.
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for this course.
Exam
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).
AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure.
Books
- AZ-204 course material included.
Flexible Delivery Options
- Live virtual online training attend in real-time from anywhere
Skills Gained
- Design and implement Azure App Service web apps, deployment slots, andautoscalefor resilient delivery.
- Build and deploy serverless workloads with Azure Functions, bindings, triggers, and Durable Functions patterns.
- Containerizeapplications, publish images to Azure Container Registry, and run workloads with Azure Container Instances or Azure Container Apps.
- Implement data solutions using Azure Blob Storage, lifecycle management, and SDK‑based operations.
- Develop with Azure Cosmos DB, including consistency levels, partitioning, SDK operations, and change feed processing.
- Secure applications with Microsoft identity platform, Microsoft Entra ID, and role/permission models for authentication and authorization.
- Protect secrets and configuration using Azure Key Vault and App Configuration; apply Managed Identities securely.
- Connect to and consume Azure services and third‑party APIs using Azure API Management and policy configuration.
- Implement event‑driven and message‑based architectures with Event Grid, Event Hubs, and Service Bus.
- Instrument applications with Application Insights, metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards for observability.
- Optimizeperformance and reliability, troubleshoot common issues, and apply monitoring practices across services.
- Use Azure CLI and PowerShell with SDKs to automate development and deployment workflows.
Who Should Attend?
Course Schedule & Pricing
Choose the schedule that fits your life — all options include full course materials & certification support
Full-time immersion for rapid certification readiness.
Balance your career while you upgrade your skills.
Maximum flexibility for busy working professionals.
Outline
- Azure developer role overview and responsibilities in the certification framework.
- Configure development environments: CLI, PowerShell, SDKs, and local tooling.
- Implementcontainerizedsolutions: build images, push to ACR, run with ACI or Container Apps.
- Create and manage Azure App Service web apps: settings, TLS,auto scale, deployment slots.
- Implement Azure Functions: triggers, bindings, Durable Functions, custom handlers.
- Develop solutions using Blob Storage: metadata, properties, lifecycle, data operations.
- Build solutions with Azure Cosmos DB: SDK, partitioning, consistency, change feed.
- Implement user authentication and authorization with Microsoft identity platform and Entra ID.
- Secure solutions with Key Vault, secrets, certificates, and App Configuration.
- Use Managed Identities for secure resource access.
- Instrumentation with Application Insights: telemetry, distributed tracing, alerting.
- Monitor andoptimizesolutions: metrics, logs, performance tuning practices.
- Publish and manage APIs with Azure API Management: policies, documentation, access control.
- Event‑driven architectures: Event Grid topics and subscriptions, handlers, patterns.
- Message‑based integration with Service Bus: queues, topics, sessions, dead‑lettering.
- Stream ingestion with Event Hubs and consumer groups.
- Caching and content delivery strategies using Azure services in developer solutions.
- CI/CD considerations for Azure developer workloads and deployment strategies.
- Governance considerations for developers: RBAC, resourceorganization, tags.
- Cost and performanceoptimizationtechniques across common Azure services.
- Exam alignment review: mapping course topics to current skills measured.
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