Candidates for this exam are cloud developers who participate in all phases of development from requirements definition and design to development, deployment, and maintenance. They partner with cloud DBAs, cloud administrators, and clients to implement solutions.

Candidates 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.

Candidates should have 1-2 years professional development experience and experience with Microsoft Azure. They should be able to program in an Azure-supported language, and should be proficient using Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and other tools.

Develop Azure compute solutions (25-30%)

Develop for Azure storage (15-20%)

Implement Azure security (20-25%)

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions (15-20%)

Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services (15-20%)