AZ-204: Course for Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Course Updates

v 3.0 - March 2026

• An entire course refresh for the AZ-104 course. This is being done to align the course with what are the most recent exam objectives.

• All of the videos will be up-to date with the latest User Interface and feature changes to the Azure services. This will provide a more seamless experience for the student and make it easier to follow along to practice on the Azure platform.

• An entire refresh also carried out for the Practice Tests - All Practice Test questions updated.

• Quizzes also added and updated for each section

v 2.0 - April 2024

• A complete course refresh has been conducted for the course. All videos of the course have been updated. This was done to align the course with any newer changes to the exam objective. And to also align the videos with any changes to the Azure services.

• All diagrams that have been shown in the videos have also been updated to have a more seamless and refreshed look with the Azure services.

• Practice Tests have also been updated. All older questions have been removed and replaced with newer questions.

This course is designed for students to prepare for the AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure exam.

The various objectives and chapters that will be covered include

Develop Azure compute solutions

This course breaks this topic into multiple sections. We will first cover how to deploy applications onto Azure virtual machines as the first compute solution method. Then we will look at the PaaS service , i.e. Azure Web Apps. We will see how to publish web applications onto the Azure Web App service. Then we will see how we can connect a web application to an Azure SQL database instance. And finally we will look at the Azure Function App service. We will look at hosting functions. And see how to connect the Functions onto an Azure SQL database.

Develop for Azure storage

Again , we will break this topic into 2 sections. One is for the Azure Storage Account service and the other is for the Azure Cosmos DB service. We will look at each service in detail. And then we will see how to use .NET 8.0 to interact with each service.

Implement Azure security

Again , we will break this topic into 2 sections.  In the first section, we will focus on understanding Azure Active Directory and how we assign permissions. Then we will see how to work with Application Objects and then with Managed Identities.

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions

In this section, we will first cover monitoring. We will look at aspects such as working with Azure Monitor and then Application Insights. And then finally look at the caching services like Azure Redis Cache and Azure CDN.

Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services

In this final section, we will cover important aspects services like Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.