AZ-204: Azure Developer Associate Study Guide

I’m excited to announce that this guide is now available as a Notion template! Extended and enhanced for 2023 it provides in-depth notes for all 47+ exam topics, example PowerShell / AZ CLI commands, further tips and the ability to track your study progress. It can be downloaded from Gumroad here.

Exam overview

Even as a “infrastructure guy” I found this exam to be incredibly useful. There’s a decent amount of overlap with some of the other exams such as AZ-104 but with a developer’s perspective on how services such as Azure Functions, Application Insights, API Management etc. are used.

The content of this exam was recently updated on January 20, 2023. This study guide reflects the latest objectives

The AZ-204 exam is the only exam needed to obtain the Azure Developer Associate certification. According to Microsoft -

“Candidates for the Azure Developer Associate certification are cloud developers who participate in all phases of development from requirements definition and design to development, deployment, and maintenance. They partner with cloud DBAs, cloud administrators, and clients to implement solutions.

Candidates should be proficient in Azure SDKs, data storage options, data connections, APIs, app authentication and authorization, compute, and container deployment, debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring.