AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure, Part 2 of 9: Functions, Storage and Cosmos

Course description

Azure Developers partner with cloud solution architects, cloud DBAs, cloud administrators, and clients to implement solutions.This course covers: Azure Functions, Blob Storage and Security along with Cosmos DB.

Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.

Prerequisites

1-2 years professional development experience and experience with Microsoft Azure. In addition, the role should have ability programming in a language supported by Azure and proficiency in Azure SDKs, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, data storage options, data connections, APIs, app authentication and authorization, compute and container deployment, debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring.

Meet the expert

Maruti Makwana

Maruti is a Microsoft Certified Corporate Trainer with over 19,000 hours of experience corporate training for companies such as: Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, LTI Infotech, Unisys, Shell, Accenture and many more. He focuses on practical implementation and hands-on practice as the best way to understand technical training. 

Video Runtime

116 Minutes

Time to complete

194 Minutes

Course Outline

Module 2

Azure Functions Overview (11:23)

• Introduction (00:08)
• What can Azure Functions do (01:17)
• Azure Functions (01:13)
• Function Integrations (01:06)
• Hosting (02:10)
• Types of Triggers (01:49)
• Trigger and Bindings Example (01:27)
• Best Practices (02:02)
• Summary (00:08)

Developing Azure Functions (20:40)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Function Folder Structure (01:51)
• Demo: Create Azure Function in Visual Studio (06:07)
• Demo: Developing Azure Function using Azure Portal (04:25)
• Function Deployed (07:58)
• Summary (00:08)

Implement Durable Functions (13:38)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Durable Functions (02:43)
• Chaining (01:49)
• Human Interaction (01:22)
• Demo: Durable function (07:26)
• Summary (00:08)

Azure Blob Storage Core Concepts (18:20)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Azure Storage Overview (02:55)
• Storage Hierarchy (02:57)
• Page Blobs (00:36)
• Replication (05:37)
• Create Azure Blob Storage Account (05:58)
• Summary (00:08)

Managing Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle (06:23)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Storage Tiers (01:26)
• Lifecycle Management (01:24)
• Demo: Customize Lifecycle (03:16)
• Summary (00:08)

Working with Azure Storage (09:39)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Work with Azure Storage (00:08)
• Demo: Retrieve Azure Storage Resources (09:14)
• Summary (00:08)

Storage Security (10:22)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Demo: Storage Security (03:36)
• Three Containers (06:29)
• Summary (00:08)

Azure Cosmos DB (03:43)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Azure Cosmos DB (01:05)
• Core Functionality (01:13)
• Consistency Levels (00:31)
• Multiple APIs Support (00:36)
• Summary (00:08)

Azure Cosmos DB Data Structure (12:24)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Resource Hierarchy Tree (01:17)
• Resource Hierarchy (02:44)
• Cosmos DB Partitioning (00:52)
• DB Demo (07:13)
• Summary (00:08)

Create and Update Documents by Using Code (10:19)

• Introduction (00:08)
• Manage Collections and Documents (00:49)
• Demo Documents (09:13)
• Summary (00:08)