Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-204 Exam Guide: Discover the essentials for success when developing and maintaining cloud-based solutions on Azure

Paul Ivey

Alex Ivanov

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4.4 (18 Ratings)

eBook Oct 2022 404 pages 1st Edition

Paul Ivey

Alex Ivanov

$9.99 ~~$55.99~~

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eBook Oct 2022 404 pages 1st Edition

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Written by two Microsoft technical trainers to help you explore the exam topics in a structured way
Understand the “why”, and not just “how” behind design and solution decisions
Follow along examples with downloadable code samples to help cement each topic’s learning objective

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

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.

What you will learn

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

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Vlad Mar 14, 2023

The 'Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-204 Exam Guide' is a comprehensive and well-written guide that provides a detailed information of the topics covered in the AZ-204 exam. The exam guide authors have a unique combination of building and architecting Azure solutions and educating people. Field experience brings a broad practical knowledge about a variety of Azure services required to successfully pass an exam. Educational experience makes it easy to navigate through the chapters, the book is well-structured, with each chapter building on the previous one, so you can easily progress on the topics and build your knowledge step by step.The book starts from the fundamentals. It covers Azure global infrastructure, tooling, Compute services, IaC and containerization topics. Then discusses popular PaaS service like Web Apps and serverless Azure Functions. Goes into details regarding working with important storage solutions like CosmosDB, and Storage accounts. Covers the security concepts of Microsoft Identity Platforms, MSAL, Azure Key Vault usage and scenarios. From the best DevOps practices point of view there is a monitoring chapter that covers Application Insights, Log Analytics, KQL and queries, working with metrics, logs and alerts. Performance and content delivery optimization with Azure Cache for Redis and CDN. There is a detailed discussion regarding building distributed systems with messaging and event-driven architecture patterns with Service Bus, Storage Queues, IoT Hub, Event Grid and Hubs, API Management. Finally, the book introduces the exam procedure by providing sample questions and case studies with answers.I believe the AZ-204 Exam Guide book is a valuable source of information required to prepare for the exam and I would gladly recommend it. The book addresses software developers and cloud architects seeking for industry recognizable Microsoft Cloud certifications and career improvements.

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sted7 Mar 17, 2023

The authors have done a terrific job of not just covering the exam objectives on a surface level, but diving deep to help readers develop subject matter expertise. The book contains very detailed explanations and helpful exercises, and the expertise of the authors shines through. This is a great resource for test-takers as well as a great reference for experienced practitioners.

Phil Oct 23, 2022

AZ-204 requires you to know a lot about many Azure services. This exam guide unsurprising has to cover a large amount of information. Thankfully the code examples also available on GitHub, and the Code in Action videos really help to make this a more practical learning exercise, the different media helping to ensure the information has been fully learnt. I really appreciate the clear information on required software and packages in order to follow along and the useful links to further reading. As another reviewer has mentioned it would be great if the authors could include summary/cheat sheets which would be useful for revision or reference.

Kindle Customer Dec 20, 2022

Lots of tips and tricks and code examples! Really helped prepare for the exam.

Puneet M Oct 20, 2022

This book has been a great resource for me to prepare for my AZ-204 certification renewal. The chapters are described in a very easy to understand language with lots of examples demonstrating the concepts through Az CLI and PowerShell commands. Throughout the book, where appropriate the text is set in bold. For e.g., when talking about configuring app settings and logging for Azure Web Apps, there are various important settings set in bold. This ensured that I did not miss out the important pieces of information and could focus quickly on the items more important for the topic. The authors have done a great job in providing visualisations in terms of charts, dashboards from time to time in the book, this proved very helpful when I wanted to visualise a concept in action without leaving the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is preparing for AZ-204 or needs a refresher.

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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