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 … Read more

AZ-103 Study Guide: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate Certification

The certification “Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate” is intended for IT administrators who have been administering Azure workloads spanning across compute, storage and networking features in Azure. Candidates should be proficient in using Azure Powershell, Azure CLI and ARM templates as well. For Certification details check out this link Here are the skills that the exam AZ-103 … Read more

Getting started with your preparation for Azure Certifications

Since last week when I completed my Azure certifications at Microsoft Ignite, many people have reached out to me to provide guidance on preparing for Microsoft certifications for Azure. In this multi-blog series, I am going to cover what different Azure certifications are available and what are the different resources to prepare for them. I’ll … Read more

Switching modes in Cloud Shell running in Windows Terminal

I have been using Cloud shell for most of my day-to-day work for managing Azure resources – I have been using cloud shell through Azure portal until recently when I have installed Windows Terminal which is in Preview mode and supports multiple tabbed consoles. I have setup Windows Terminal to support Cloud Shell as well, … Read more

“InvalidTemplateDeployment” error while deploying ARM Template

I was working on a PowerShell script today to deploy a service fabric cluster using ARM template and came across a weird error – The template deployment ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’ is not valid according to the validation procedure. The tracking id is ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’. See inner errors for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-deploy for usage details.   It was … Read more