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Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Build end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure to create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, and more.
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Last Updated
01/15/2025
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Overview
As a candidate for this certification, you’re responsible for participating in all phases of development, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.
You should be proficient in Azure:
- SDK
- Data storage options
- Data connections
- APIs
- App authentication and authorization
- Compute and container deployment
- Debugging
To implement solutions, you partner with:
- Cloud solution architects
- DBAs
- DevOps
- Infrastructure admins
- Other stakeholders
You should have:
- At least two years of programming experience.
- Proficiency in programming with Azure SDKs.
- Proficiency using Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and other tools.
Skills measured
- 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
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This exam will be proctored, and is not open book. You may have interactive components to complete as part of this exam. To learn more about exam duration and experience, visit: Exam duration and exam experience.
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This exam is offered in the following languages:
English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Indonesian (Indonesia), Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
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