Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Grow your Microsoft Azure development skills to meet future business needs.
Microsoft Azure Developers design, build, test, and maintain cloud solutions, such as applications and services, partnering with cloud solution architects, cloud DBAs, cloud administrators, and clients to implement these solutions.
These cloud developers participate in all phases of development from requirements definition and design, to development and deployment, and maintenance. And 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.
Earning this certification will validate you are able to:
- Develop Azure compute solutions
- Develop for Azure storage
- Implement Azure security
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions
- Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services
Job role: Developer
Prerequisites
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Required Exams
AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
Recertification
Microsoft introduced a new approach to help learners stay current. Those who have an active certification expiring within six months can renew their certification annually – at no cost – by passing a renewal assessment on Microsoft Learn. For more information, please check out the Renew your Microsoft Certification page.
Next Steps
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