This exam was retired by the vendor on July 31, 2026.
AZ-204 can no longer be scheduled. The practice material below remains available for reference and for learners studying the underlying skills. See Microsoft's current Azure developer path
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Practise Microsoft Azure Developer Associate AZ-204 across all 5 official exam domains — Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, Develop Azure compute solutions, Develop for Azure storage, Implement Azure security, and more — with original exam-style questions, full explanations, and wrong-answer analysis. Microsoft certification exams often test whether you can choose the right Azure, Microsoft 365, identity, security or monitoring action for a realistic administrative scenario. Courseiva helps you practise with structured questions and explanations.
Ways to study AZ-204
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Historical facts for the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate AZ-204 exam, which the vendor has retired.
Exam cost (historical)
$165 USD / ~£135
Duration (historical)
120 minutes
Question count
40–60 questions
Passing score
700 / 1000
Microsoft Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) validates skills in developing Azure compute solutions, storage, security, monitoring, and connecting to third-party services. It is designed for developers who build applications on Azure using languages like C#, Python, or JavaScript.
Official prerequisite
None
Recommended experience
AZ-900 and 1 year of Azure development experience
1 year building and deploying Azure applications. Should be comfortable with Azure SDKs, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, and App Service.
Should you skip this exam?
If you manage Azure infrastructure rather than build applications, AZ-104 is more appropriate. If you are just starting on Azure, AZ-900 first.
Courseiva study tip
AZ-204 is the hardest Azure Associate exam. Code-related questions (reading C# or Python snippets that use Azure SDKs) are unique to this exam. Understand the Azure SDK patterns for authentication (managed identity, DefaultAzureCredential) deeply.
UK salary range
£50,000–£80,000
US salary range
$85,000–$130,000
Job roles that cite AZ-204
AZ-204 was retired by the vendor and can no longer be scheduled or booked. See Microsoft's current Azure developer path for the current path.
$165 USD.
700 out of 1000.
AZ-204 is Microsoft's hardest Azure Associate exam. Code snippet questions requiring knowledge of Azure SDK usage in C# or Python are unique to this exam. Allow 150–250 hours of hands-on study.
AZ-204 requires annual renewal via a free online assessment on Microsoft Learn.
AZ-104 is for administrators (infrastructure management). AZ-204 is for developers (building applications). If you write code, take AZ-204. If you manage cloud infrastructure, take AZ-104.
See how AZ-204 stacks up against related certifications.
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Everything on Courseiva for AZ-204 is free — no subscription, no trial, no email wall. Pick a mode that matches your study phase: practice questions early on, mock exams closer to your exam date.
Practice Test
Start a 20-question session with a full explanation after each answer.
Mock Exam
Sit a full-length, timed mock built to match the real exam.
Quick 25
25 questions, built for a quick daily study session.
Domain Practice
Practise domain by domain to find and fix weak spots.
50-Question Set
Mid-length practice set covering all domains.
Cheat sheet
The key facts and numbers for this exam on one page.
Acronyms
A full glossary of acronyms from the official blueprint.
Official objectives
The vendor's own blueprint, linked straight to practice resources.
Exam glossary
Every term AZ-204 candidates need to know, defined.
Practice by topic
Topic-by-topic practice pages covering the full exam.
Courseiva Exam Intelligence
Data confidence: BuildingDerived from Courseiva's continuously updated practice dataset: 883 exam-style questions. Updated 2 July 2026.
Question difficulty mix
Average time per question: 92s
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Exam domains
official blueprint domains covered by the bank
883
Questions
exam-style questions in the AZ-204 bank
Exam guide
Start with a short practice session, review each missed answer, then return to the topics that caused mistakes.
Microsoft Azure Developer Associate AZ-204 spans 5 official exam domains (Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, Develop Azure compute solutions, Develop for Azure storage, and more). Questions test whether you can apply each objective in a realistic scenario, not just recall a definition.
Related practice questions
Use these internal links to move from the exam guide into focused topic practice pages.
Practise AZ-204 questions linked to Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services.
Work through AZ-204 questions on Develop Azure compute solutions.
Targeted AZ-204 practice covering Develop for Azure storage.
Work through AZ-204 questions on Implement Azure security.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions practice questions for AZ-204.
Targeted AZ-204 practice covering AZ-204 fundamentals.
Sharpen your AZ-204 knowledge of AZ-204 scenario.
Targeted AZ-204 practice covering AZ-204 troubleshooting.
Practice directory
Every practice set is a unique selection of questions — numbered tests, domain-focused sessions, and topic-specific quizzes.
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Official blueprint
Target weak areas by practising questions from a single domain. Each domain page shows all questions, difficulty breakdown, and a focused practice session.
Weighted 24% on the official AZ-204 blueprint →
Covers 30% of the AZ-204 exam →
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8% of AZ-204 questions come from this domain →
Deep-dive questions
The most-searched AZ-204 questions — each with a detailed explanation, worked example, and full answer breakdown.
Term reference
These terms appear frequently in AZ-204 questions. Understanding them precisely reduces guessing and improves scores.
Durable Functions
Durable Functions is an extension of Azure Functions that lets you write stateful workflows in code, managing complex sequences of tasks, retries, and delays automatically.
Azure Functions Triggers
Azure Functions triggers are events that cause a function (a small piece of code) to run automatically in the cloud.
Azure App Service Authentication
Azure App Service Authentication is a built-in feature that allows web apps, mobile backends, and API apps to authenticate users without requiring custom code from the developer.
Azure App Service Plans
An Azure App Service Plan defines the compute resources, pricing tier, scaling capabilities, and region for one or more web apps, API apps, mobile app backends, or Azure Functions hosted in Azure App Service.
Azure Kubernetes Service Development
Azure Kubernetes Service Development is the practice of designing, building, and deploying containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service, a managed container orchestration platform in Microsoft Azure.
Azure Table Storage
Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL key-value data store in the cloud that lets you store and query large amounts of structured, non-relational data without needing a traditional database server.
Azure App Service Scaling
Azure App Service Scaling is the ability to automatically or manually adjust the number of computing resources allocated to a web app hosted on Azure App Service to handle changes in traffic demand.
Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a PaaS service that lets you run a container directly in Azure without managing any underlying servers or orchestration.
Learn the concepts
102 book-style chapters cover every AZ-204 objective in plain English. Read the theory here, then test it with practice questions.
Chapter 1
Azure Functions Development
25 min read
Chapter 2
Containerized Solutions on Azure
25 min read
Chapter 3
App Service Development
25 min read
Chapter 4
Cosmos DB for Developers
25 min read
Chapter 5
Azure Blob Storage Development
25 min read
Chapter 6
Entra ID Authentication for Developers
25 min read
Chapter 7
Key Vault for Developers
25 min read
Chapter 8
Managed Identities in Code
25 min read
Free study guide
The Courseiva AZ-204 study guide covers exam format, the official domain blueprint with weights, a structured study plan, and domain-specific tips for each section. Use it alongside practice questions to build both conceptual depth and exam confidence.
Sample questions
Original exam-style questions — not copied from any exam or dump site. Open a question for the full answer breakdown.
Three analytics pipelines each need to read every event from the same Azure Event Hub: one pipeline archives events to cold storage, one computes real-time aggregations, and one fe…
After deploying a new version to the staging slot and swapping to production, users report a 60-second spike in 503 errors. The application takes 45 seconds to initialize its conne…
Multiple teams need different levels of access to the same Azure Key Vault: the DevOps team needs to create and rotate secrets, the application team needs read-only secret access,…
A business process requires sending an approval email, waiting up to 48 hours for a manager's response, and then updating a SharePoint list based on the decision. The process owner…
Backend APIs exposed through Azure API Management are consumed by multiple subscribers. The product owner wants to prevent any single subscriber from sending more than 100 requests…
Three microservices collaborate on a single user transaction: an App Service API, an Azure Function that processes a Service Bus message, and a downstream storage service. Traces a…
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