Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

This course teaches developers how to create end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure. Students will learn how to implement Azure compute solutions, create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, implement authentication and authorization, and secure their solutions by using KeyVault and Managed Identities. Students will also learn how to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, and include event- and message-based models in their solutions. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure solutions.
 

Students in this course are interested in Azure development or in passing the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate certification exam.
 

• Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions, and the Azure Portal.
• Experience writing in an Azure supported language at the intermediate level. (C#, JavaScript, Python, or Java)
• Ability to write code to connect and perform operations on, a SQL or NoSQL database product. (SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar)
• Experience writing code to handle authentication, authorization, and other security principles at the intermediate level.
• A general understanding of HTML, the HTTP protocol and REST API interfaces.
If you are new to Azure and cloud computing consider one of the following resources:
• Free online: Azure Fundamentals (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/)
• Instructor-led course: AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals

AZ-204: Implement Azure App Service web apps Explore Azure App Service

• Introduction
• Examine Azure App Service
• Examine Azure App Service plans
• Deploy to App Service
• Explore authentication and authorization in App Service
• Discover App Service networking features
• Exercise: Create a static HTML web app by using Azure Cloud Shell
• Knowledge check

Configure web app settings

• Introduction
• Configure application settings
• Configure general settings
• Configure path mappings
• Enable diagnostic logging
• Configure security certificates
• Knowledge check

Scale apps in Azure App Service

• Introduction
• Examine autoscale factors
• Identify autoscale factors
• Enable autoscale in App Service
• Explore autoscale best practices
• Knowledge check

Explore Azure App Service deployment slots

• Introduction
• Explore staging environments
• Examine slot swapping
• Swap deployment slots
• Route traffic in App Service
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Implement Azure Functions Explore Azure Functions

• Introduction
• Discover Azure Functions
• Compare Azure Functions hosting options
• Scale Azure Functions
• Knowledge check

Develop Azure Functions

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Functions development
• Create triggers and bindings
• Connect functions to Azure services
• Exercise: Create an Azure Function by using Visual Studio Code
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Blob storage Explore Azure Blob storage

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Blob storage
• Discover Azure Blob storage resource types
• Explore Azure Storage security features
• Discover static website hosting in Azure Storage
• Knowledge check

Manage the Azure Blob storage lifecycle

• Introduction
• Explore the Azure Blob storage lifecycle
• Discover Blob storage lifecycle policies
• Implement Blob storage lifecycle policies
• Rehydrate blob data from the archive tier
• Knowledge check

Work with Azure Blob storage

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Blob storage client library
• Create a client object
• Exercise: Create Blob storage resources by using the .NET client library
• Manage container properties and metadata by using .NET
• Set and retrieve properties and metadata for blob resources by using REST
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB Explore Azure Cosmos DB

• Introduction
• Identify key benefits of Azure Cosmos DB
• Explore the resource hierarchy
• Explore consistency levels
• Choose the right consistency level
• Explore supported APIs
• Discover request units
• Exercise: Create Azure Cosmos DB resources by using the Azure portal
• Knowledge check

Work with Azure Cosmos DB

• Introduction
• Explore Microsoft .NET SDK v3 for Azure Cosmos DB
• Exercise: Create resources by using the Microsoft .NET SDK v3
• Create stored procedures
• Create triggers and user-defined functions
• Explore change feed in Azure Cosmos DB
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Implement containerized solutions Manage container images in Azure Container Registry

• Introduction
• Discover the Azure Container Registry
• Explore storage capabilities
• Build and manage containers with tasks
• Explore elements of a Dockerfile
• Exercise: Build and run a container image by using Azure Container Registry Tasks
• Knowledge check

Run container images in Azure Container Instances

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Container Instances
• Exercise - Deploy a container instance by using the Azure CLI
• Run containerized tasks with restart policies
• Set environment variables in container instances
• Mount an Azure file share in Azure Container Instances
• Knowledge check

Implement Azure Container Apps

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Container Apps
• Exercise - Deploy a container app
• Explore containers in Azure Container Apps
• Implement authentication and authorization in Azure Container Apps
• Manage revisions and secrets in Azure Container Apps
• Explore Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Implement user authentication and authorization Explore the Microsoft identity platform

• Introduction
• Explore the Microsoft identity platform
• Explore service principals
• Discover permissions and consent
• Discover conditional access
• Knowledge check

Implement authentication by using the Microsoft Authentication Library

• Introduction
• Explore the Microsoft Authentication Library
• Initialize client applications
• Exercise - Implement interactive authentication by using MSAL.NET
• Knowledge check

Implement shared access signatures

• Introduction
• Discover shared access signatures
• Choose when to use shared access signatures
• Explore stored access policies
• Knowledge check

Explore Microsoft Graph

• Introduction
• Discover Microsoft Graph
• Query Microsoft Graph by using REST
• Query Microsoft Graph by using SDKs
• Apply best practices to Microsoft Graph
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Implement secure Azure solutions Implement Azure Key Vault

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Key Vault
• Discover Azure Key Vault best practices
• Authenticate to Azure Key Vault
• Exercise: Set and retrieve a secret from Azure Key Vault by using Azure CLI
• Knowledge check

Implement managed identities

• Introduction
• Explore managed identities
• Discover the managed identities authentication flow
• Configure managed identities
• Acquire an access token
• Knowledge check

Implement Azure App Configuration

• Introduction
• Explore the Azure App Configuration service
• Create paired keys and values
• Manage application features
• Secure app configuration data
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Implement API Management Explore API Management

• Introduction
• Discover the API Management service
• Explore API gateways
• Explore API Management policies
• Create advanced policies
• Secure APIs by using subscriptions
• Secure APIs by using certificates
• Exercise - Create a backend API
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Develop event-based solutions Explore Azure Event Grid

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Event Grid
• Discover event schemas
• Explore event delivery durability
• Control access to events
• Receive events by using webhooks
• Filter events
• Exercise - Route custom events to web endpoint by using Azure CLI
• Knowledge check

Explore Azure Event Hubs

• Introduction
• Discover Azure Event Hubs
• Explore Event Hubs Capture
• Scale your processing application
• Control access to events
• Perform common operations with the Event Hubs client library
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Develop message-based solutions Discover Azure message queues

• Introduction
• Choose a message queue solution
• Explore Azure Service Bus
• Discover Service Bus queues, topics, and subscriptions
• Explore Service Bus message payloads and serialization
• Exercise: Send and receive message from a Service Bus queue by using .NET.
• Explore Azure Queue Storage
• Create and manage Azure Queue Storage and messages by using .NET
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Troubleshoot solutions by using Application Insights Monitor app performance

• Introduction
• Explore Application Insights
• Discover log-based metrics
• Instrument an app for monitoring
• Select an availability test
• Troubleshoot app performance by using Application Map
• Knowledge check

AZ-204: Implement caching for solutions Develop for Azure Cache for Redis

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Cache for Redis
• Configure Azure Cache for Redis
• Interact with Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET
• Exercise - Connect an app to Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET Core
• Knowledge check

Develop for storage on CDNs

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Content Delivery Networks
• Control cache behavior on Azure Content Delivery Networks
• Interact with Azure Content Delivery Networks by using .NET
• Knowledge check