#97 Prepare for the Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) with focusing points

Warning! This blog post is not the ultimate guideline to pass this exam, instead serves as a reference point. Remember to skim through Microsoft Learn pages for these focusing points so that you know where to navigate in the exam, in case you want to use Microsoft Learn in the exam.

Exam Objectives

The AZ-204 exam measures your ability to develop solutions for Microsoft Azure, focusing on 5 following aspects (A to E section):

A. Develop Azure compute solutions (25–30%):

1. Implement containerized solutions:

• Create and manage container images for solutions
• Publish an image to Azure Container Registry
• Run containers by using Azure Container Instance
• Create solutions by using Azure Container Apps

2. Implement Azure App Service Web Apps

• Create an Azure App Service Web App
• Enable diagnostics logging
• Deploy code to a web app
• Configure web app settings including Transport Layer Security (TLS), API settings, and connection strings
• Implement autoscaling

3. Implement Azure Functions

• Create and configure an…