Microsoft Certified – Azure Developer Associate

Candidates for the Azure Developer Associate certification should have subject matter expertise in designing, building, testing, and maintaining cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure.
Responsibilities for this role include participating in all phases of cloud development from requirements, definition, and design; to development, deployment, and maintenance; to performance tuning and monitoring.
Azure developers partner with cloud solution architects, cloud DBAs, cloud administrators, and clients to implement solutions.
In addition, the candidate for this role should have the ability to program in a language supported by Azure and proficiency in Azure SDKs, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, data storage options, data connections, APIs, app authentication and authorization, compute and container deployment, debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring

Skills measured

Develop Azure compute solutions
Develop for Azure storage
Implement Azure security
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions
Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services

Course Outline
Develop Azure compute solutions (25-30%)
Implement IaaS solutions
provision virtual machines (VMs)
configure, validate, and deploy ARM templates
configure container images for solutions
publish an image to the Azure Container Registry
run containers by using Azure Container Instance

Create 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 SSL, API settings, and connection strings
implement auto scaling rules including scheduled autoscaling and autoscaling by operational or system metrics

Implement Azure functions
create and deploy Azure Functions apps
implement input and output bindings for a function
implement function triggers by using data operations, timers, and webhooks
implement Azure Durable Functions
implement custom handlers

Develop for Azure storage (15-20%)
Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage
select the appropriate API and SDK for a solution
implement partitioning schemes and partition keys
perform operations on data and Cosmos DB containers
set the appropriate consistency level for operations
manage change feed notifications

Develop solutions that use blob storage
move items in Blob storage between storage accounts or containers
set and retrieve properties and metadata
perform operations on data by using the appropriate SDK
implement storage policies, and data archiving and retention

Implement Azure security (20-25%)
Implement user authentication and authorization
authenticate and authorize users by using the Microsoft Identity platform
authenticate and authorize users and apps by using Azure Active Directory
create and implement shared access signatures

Implement secure cloud solutions
secure app configuration data by using App Configuration Azure Key Vault
develop code that uses keys, secrets, and certificates stored in Azure Key Vault
implement Managed Identities for Azure resources
implement solutions that interact with Microsoft Graph

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions (15-20%)
Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions
configure cache and expiration policies for Azure Redis Cache
implement secure and optimized application cache patterns including data sizing,connections, encryption, and expiration

Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging
configure an app or service to use Application Insights
analyze and troubleshoot solutions by using Azure Monitor
implement Application Insights web tests and alerts

Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services (15-20%)
Implement API Management
create an APIM instance
configure authentication for APIs
define policies for APIs

Develop event-based solutions
implement solutions that use Azure Event Grid
implement solutions that use Azure Event Hubs

Develop message-based solutions
implement solutions that use Azure Service Bus
implement solutions that use Azure Queue Storage queues

About The Exam
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: develop Azure compute solutions; develop for Azure storage; implement Azure security; monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions; and connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services. You will be able to select the code language (C# or Python) that’s included in the questions when you launch the exam

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