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Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-204 Exam Guide

You're reading from Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-204 Exam Guide A comprehensive guide to passing the AZ-204 exam

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835085295

Length 428 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Paul Ivey

Alex Ivanov

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Azure and Cloud Fundamentals

2. Chapter 2: Implementing Azure App Service Web Apps FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Implementing Containerized Solutions

4. Chapter 4: Implementing Azure Functions

5. Chapter 5: Developing Solutions That Use Cosmos DB Storage

6. Chapter 6: Developing Solutions That Use Azure Blob Storage

7. Chapter 7: Implementing User Authentication and Authorization

8. Chapter 8: Implementing Secure Azure Solutions

9. Chapter 9: Integrating Caching and Content Delivery within Solutions

10. Chapter 10: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Solutions by Using Application Insights

11. Chapter 11: Implementing API Management

12. Chapter 12: Developing Event-Based Solutions

13. Chapter 13: Developing Message-Based Solutions

14. Chapter 14: Accessing the Online Practice Resources

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Implementing Authentication with the MSAL

The MSAL allows you to get tokens from the Microsoft identity platform for authentication and accessing secure web APIs. For example, the MSAL can be used for getting secure access to Microsoft Graph and other Microsoft APIs, as well as any other web APIs, including your own.

There are MSAL libraries available to support several languages and frameworks using a consistent API, including Android, Angluar.js, iOS, macOS, Go, Java, JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks, Node.js, Python, React, and – as you might expect – the .NET ecosystem. The MSAL can be used to acquire tokens for web apps, web APIs, single-page apps, mobile and native applications, daemons, and server-side apps.

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, modern authentication can be extremely complex to implement yourself. MSAL handles a lot of the heavy lifting for you. For example, here are some of the things MSAL does for you:

Uses OAuth and OIDC libraries...

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Authors (2)

Paul Ivey

Paul Ivey

Paul Ivey, is an experienced engineer, architect, and trainer, specializing in Microsoft technologies, both on-premises and in the Azure cloud. In his five years at Microsoft, Paul has been a secure infrastructure engineer and app innovation engineer and has helped hundreds of enterprise customers adopt DevOps practices and develop solutions for Azure. Paul is now a Microsoft Technical Trainer, providing training for Microsoft customers to help them with preparing to pass Azure exams, including the AZ-204 exam. Originally from Devon in the UK, Paul currently lives in Cheltenham in the beautiful Cotswolds area of England. In his spare time, Paul is a keen PC gamer and enjoys traveling abroad to experience foreign sights, cultures, and food (mostly food).

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Alex Ivanov

Alex Ivanov

Alex Ivanov is an experienced cloud engineer with a primary focus on supporting companies in their journeys to adopt Azure services. Alex has worked for Microsoft for eight years as a cloud support engineer and four years as an Azure Technical Trainer. Alex is an expert in software engineering and digital transformation who has helped many customers to migrate their solutions to Azure. His experience has helped him gain 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 for and pass the Azure certification exams. In his free time, while not being jumped on by his three kids, he enjoys camping, boating, running, and building RC models.

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