Santiago Fernández Muñoz - Exam Ref AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Santiago Fernndez Muoz

Exam Ref AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-679833-0
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Acknowledgments

I want to say thank you to the people who gave me the opportunity to write this book and who also helped me during the entire process. Without their support, this book would not be a reality.

I also want to say thank you to my friend Rafa Hueso for his support and guidance during the last years of my professional career.

About the author

I started my career as a Linux and Windows instructor. At the same time, I also started to learn scripting programming languages such as bash and VBS that were useful for my work. During that period of my career, I realized scripting languages were helpful, but they were not enough to meet all my needs, so I started learning other languages like Java, PHP, and finally C#.

Ive been working as a Microsoft technologies consultant for the last 14 years, and over the last 6 years, Ive consulted on Azure-related technologies. Ive participated in different types of projects, serving in a variety of capacities from .NET developer to solution architect. Now Im focused on developing custom industrial IoT solutions for my company and clients.

Introduction

Most books take a very low-level approach, teaching you how to use individual classes and accomplish fine-grained tasks. Through this book, we review the main technologies that Microsoft offers for deploying different kinds of solutions into Azure. From the most classical and conservative approaches using Azure virtual machines to the latest technologies, implementing event-based or message-based patterns with Azure Event Grid or Azure Service Bus, this book reviews the basics for developing most types of solutions using Azure services. The book also provides code examples for illustrating how to implement most of the concepts covered through the different sections.

This book is intended for those professionals who are planning to pass the exam AZ-204. This book covers every major topic area found on the exam, but it does not cover every exam question. Only the Microsoft exam team has access to the exam questions, and Microsoft regularly adds new questions to the exam, making it impossible to cover specific questions. You should consider this book a supplement to your relevant real-world experience and other study materials. If you encounter a topic in this book that you do not feel completely comfortable with, use the Need more review? links in the text to find more information and take the time to research and study the topic. Great information is available on MSDN and TechNet and in blogs and forums.

Organization of this book

This book is organized by the Skills measured list published for the exam. The Skills measured list is available for each exam on the Microsoft Learn website: http://aka.ms/examlist. Each chapter in this book corresponds to a major topic area in the list, and the technical tasks in each topic area determine a chapters organization. If an exam covers six major topic areas, for example, the book contains six chapters.

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