AZ-203 Study Guide: Microsoft Azure Developer Associate Certification

The certification “Microsoft Azure Developer Associate” is intended for developers who have been developing Azure based solutions including Azure App Services, Azure Storage and Azure SQL Databases.

For Certification details check out this link

Here are the skills that the exam AZ-203 measures –

• Develop Azure Infrastructure as a Service compute solutions (10-15%)
• Develop Azure Platform as a Service compute solutions (20-25%)
• Develop for Azure storage (15-20%)
• Implement Azure security (10-15%)
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize solutions (10-15%)
• Connect to and consume Azure and third-party services (20-25%)

Rather than mapping each of the skills mentioned above, I am going to list the different concepts that a candidate should be aware of and preferably, should have hands-on experience as well. I believe this will simplify the preparation path for the candidates who are looking forward to earn this certification.

1. Azure App Services
   •  Different hosting options
   • Azure Web Apps
     • Create Web Apps
     • Create and configure a web job
     • Enable diagnostic logging
     • Create Web App for containers
     • Monitor Application health through Azure Monitor
   • Azure Mobile Apps
     • Setting up Push notifications
     • offline sync
     • remote instrumentation strategy
   • Azure API Apps
     • Generate OpenAPI definition
   • Azure functions
     • Hosting Plan Options
     • Triggers and Bindings
       • Supported Bindings
     • Different types of Triggers – timer, blob, Service Bus and webhook
     • Durable Functions
     • Create Functions using Python
   • Azure Logic Apps
     • Create a logic app
     • Connectors in Logic App
       • Create custom connector
     • Create custom template
2. Azure Cognitive Search
   • Create Index
   • Import searchable data
   • Full Text Search
3. API Management (APIM)
   • Create APIM Instance
   • Configure authentication for APIs
   • Define policies for APIs
4. Event based solutions in Azure
   • Azure Event Grid
   • Azure Notification Hubs
   • Azure Event Hub
5. Messaging solutions in Azure
   • Azure Service Bus
     • Queues vs Topics
   • Azure Storage Queues
   • Comparison
6. Azure Storage Solutions
   • Azure Storage Tables
     • Partitioning in tables
   • Azure Blob Storage
     • Data Transfer
     • Setting Blob properties
     • Blob Leasing
     • Data archiving and retention
     • Data redundancy options in Blob storage
   • Azure Files
7. Azure Cosmos DB
   • Create Cosmos DB
   • Partitioning in Cosmos DB
   • Consistency levels in Cosmos DB
8. Azure SQL Databases
   • Provision and configure Azure SQL Databases
   • Elastic pools
   • Connect to SQL database from code
   • Pricing tiers
     • Serverless offering
   • Azure SQL Database for PostgreSQL
     • Hyperscale Instances
   • Failover Groups
9. Azure Virtual Machines
   • Provision Azure VMs
   • ARM templates
   • Disk Encryption for Azure VMs
10. Azure Batch Services
    • Create and run a batch job
11. Container support in Azure
    • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
      • Create and configure AKS cluster
      • Run Containers in AKS
    • Azure Container registry
      • Create ACR and push an image to ACR
    • Azure Container Instances
      • Run containers in ACI
12. Microsoft Identity Platform
    • Azure Active Directory
    • Authentication Scenarios
    • Authentication Flows and application scenarios
    • OAuth 2.0 with Azure AD
      • ID Tokens and Access Tokens
      • Certificate Credentials
    • Service Principals
    • Implement Multi Factor Authentication with Azure AD
    • Managed Identities
      • System-assigned and User-assigned identities
13. Authorization
    • Claim Based access control
    • Role Based access control
14. Key Vault
15. Security
    • Encryption at rest
    • Encryption in transit
    • Azure Encryption Models
16. FAQs

Apart from the above information, you can use the following resources as well for your preparation –

• AZ-203 study guide
• Pluralsight learning path

Hope this helps in your preparation!!