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 SQLdatabase 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 DBservice. We will look at each service in detail. And then we will see how to use .NET 6.0 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.