Course Content
- Create Azure App Service web apps
- Implement Azure functions
- Develop solutions that use Blob storage
- Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB
- Implement infrastructure as a service solutions
- Implement user authentication and authorization
- Implement secure cloud solutions
- Implement API Management
- Develop event-based solutions
- Develop message-based solutions
- Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging
- Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions
Who should attend
Students in this course are interested in Azure development or in passing the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate certification exam.
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Prerequisites
To be successful in this course, learners should have the following:
- 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.
Outline: Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204T00)
Module 1: Create Azure App Service web apps
Learn how Azure App Service functions and how to create and update an app. Explore App Service authentication and authorization, configuring app settings, scale apps, and how to use deployment slots.
Lessons
- Explore Azure App Service
- Configure web app settings
- Scale apps in Azure App Service
- Explore Azure App Service deployment slots
Module 2: Implement Azure functions
Learn how to create and deploy Azure Functions. Explore hosting options, bindings, triggers, and how to use Durable Functions to define stateful workflows.
Lessons
- Explore Azure Functions
- Develop Azure Functions
- Implement Durable Functions
Module 3: Develop solutions that use Blob storage
Learn how to create Azure Blob storage resources, manage data through the blob storage lifecycle, and work with containers and items by using the Azure Blob storage client library V12 for .NET.
Lessons
- Explore Azure Blob storage
- Manage the Azure Blob storage lifecycle
- Work with Azure Blob storage
Module 4: Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB Learn how to create Azure Cosmos DB resources with the appropriate consistency levels, choose and create a partition key, and perform data operations by using the .NET SDK V3 for Azure Cosmos DB.
Lessons
- Explore Azure Cosmos DB
- Implement partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB
- Work with Azure Cosmos DB
Module 5: Implement infrastructure as a service solutions
Learn how to create and deploy virtual machine, deploy resources using Azure Resource Manager templates, and manage and deploy containers.
Lessons
- Provision virtual machines in Azure
- Create and deploy Azure Resource Manager templates
- Manage container images in Azure Container Registry
- Run container images in Azure Container Instances
Module 6: Implement user authentication and authorization
Learn how to implement authentication and authorization to resources by using the Microsoft identity platform, Microsoft Authentication Library, shared access signatures, and use Microsoft Graph.
Lessons
- Explore the Microsoft identity platform
- Implement authentication by using the Microsoft Authentication Library
- Implement shared access signatures
- Explore Microsoft Graph
Module 7: Implement secure cloud solutions
Learn how to more securely deploy apps in Azure by using Azure Key Vault, managed identities, and Azure App Configuration.
Lessons
- Implement Azure Key Vault
- Implement managed identities
- Implement Azure App Configuration
Module 8: Implement API Management
Learn how the API Management service functions, how to transform and secure APIs, and how to create a backend API.
Lessons
- Explore API Management
Module 9: Develop event-based solutions
Learn how to build applications with event-based architectures by integrating Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs in to your solution.
Lessons
- Explore Azure Event Grid
- Explore Azure Event Hubs
Module 10: Develop message-based solutions
Learn how to build applications with message-based architectures by integrating Azure Service Bus and Azure Queue Storage in to your solution.
Lessons
- Discover Azure message queues
Module 11: Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging
Learn how to instrument apps to enable Application Insights to monitor performance and help troubleshoot issues.
Lessons
- Monitor app performance
Module 12: Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions
Learn how to improve the performance and scalability of your applications by integrating Azure Cache for Redis and Azure Content Delivery Network in to your solution.
Lessons
- Develop for Azure Cache for Redis
- Develop for storage on CDNs
