Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
About the course
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.
Recommended Experience
A candidate for this certification should have 1-2 years professional development experience and experience with Microsoft Azure.
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.
What you will learn
Skills measured
The content of this exam was updated on March 26, 2021. Please see the exam skills outline below to see what changed.
Develop Azure compute solutions (25-30%)
Develop for Azure storage (15-20%)
Implement Azure security (20-25%)
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions (15-20%)
Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services (15-20%)
Average salary for Azure Developer professionals
£52,500.00+
The average azure developer salary in the United Kingdom is £52,500 per year or £26.92 per hour. Entry level positions start at £42,500 per year while most experienced workers make up to £70,000 per year.
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Frequently asked questions
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What is the Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) Certification?
This certification is designed for IT and cloud professionals who have 1-2 years of experience with development tools and processes and wish to take their knowledge to the next level by passing the AZ-204 exam.
The exam, according to Microsoft, requires that you have or build a strong knowledge base around:
Azure SDKs
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Azure CLI
Data storage options
Data connections
APIs
App authentication and authorization
Compute and container deployment
Debugging
Performance tuning
Monitoring
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