Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-203)
Candidates for this exam are Azure Developers who design and build cloud solutions such as applications and services. They participate in all phases of development, from solution design, to development and deployment, to testing and maintenance. They partner with cloud solution architects, cloud DBAs, cloud administrators, and clients to implement the solution.
Candidates should be proficient in developing apps and services by using Azure tools and technologies, including storage, security, compute, and communications.
Candidates must have at least one year of experience developing scalable solutions through all phases of software development and be skilled in at least one cloud-supported programming language.
Part of the requirements for: Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Exam AZ-203: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure – Skills Measured
Develop Azure Infrastructure as a Service compute solutions (10-15%)
Implement solutions that use virtual machines (VM)
Implement batch jobs by using Azure Batch Services
Create containerized solutions
Develop Azure Platform as a Service compute solutions (20-25%)
Create Azure App Service Web Apps
Create Azure App Service mobile apps
Create Azure App Service API apps
Implement Azure functions
Develop for Azure storage (15-20%)
Develop solutions that use storage tables
Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage
Develop solutions that use a relational database
Develop solutions that use blob storage
Implement Azure security (10-15%)
Implement authentication
Implement access control
Implement secure data solutions
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize solutions (10-15%)
Develop code to support scalability of apps and services
Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions
Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging
Connect to and consume Azure and third-party services (20-25%)
Develop an App Service Logic App
Integrate Azure Search within solutions
Develop event-based solutions
Develop message-based solutions