Study Azure AZ-204 Compute Solutions: key concepts, common traps, and exam decision cues.
This chapter is where AZ-204 tests whether you can host and deploy application code on Azure without losing operational control. Microsoft expects you to know when the workload belongs in containers, App Service, or Functions, and how diagnostics, scaling, and deployment slots change the answer.
Microsoft currently weights Develop Azure compute solutions at 25-30% of the exam.
| Lesson | Focus |
|---|---|
| 1.1 Containers, ACR & Container Apps | Learn the core container build, registry, and managed container-hosting choices. |
| 1.2 App Service, Scaling & Slots | Learn the web-app hosting, logging, TLS, scaling, and staged-deployment decisions Microsoft tests heavily. |
| 1.3 Functions, Triggers & Bindings | Learn the event-driven runtime patterns, trigger logic, and binding behavior that drive many implementation questions. |
| If the question is really about… | Go first to… |
|---|---|
| container images, ACR, ACI, or Container Apps | 1.1 Containers, ACR & Container Apps |
| web apps, deployment slots, diagnostics, scaling, TLS, or app settings | 1.2 App Service, Scaling & Slots |
| function triggers, bindings, timers, webhooks, or function runtime config | 1.3 Functions, Triggers & Bindings |