AZ-204 (Microsoft Azure Developer) Exam Guide

The **AZ-204** certification is for Cloud developers. It covers designing, building, testing, and maintaining Cloud applications and services on Azure, including IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, and Cosmos DB storage.

Which Azure service runs small blocks of code (Serverless) triggered by events?

Answer : Azure Functions.

A serverless compute service that scales automatically to meet demand.

What is an App Service 'Deployment Slot'?

Answer : A secondary instance of a web app used for testing before swapping to production.

Enables zero-downtime deployments and safe rollbacks.

Which Azure resource provides a private registry for Docker images?

Answer : Azure Container Registry (ACR).

A managed, private Docker registry based on the open-source Docker Registry 2.0.

How do you secure app credentials without hardcoding secrets?

Answer : By using Managed Identities with Azure Key Vault.

The resource's identity is used to securely fetch secrets from the Vault.

Which Azure messaging service ensures strict message ordering and transactions?

Answer : Azure Service Bus.

An enterprise-grade message broker for reliable, complex asynchronous communication.

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