Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204) Exam Practice Questions & Study Guide 2026

Question 1

You need to support local development testing for developers. Which tool should you use? 

A. Azurite  
B. Azure Storage Emulator  
C. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)  
D. Azure Storage Explorer  

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Question 2

You need to implement the processing of enqueuer inventory items.Which message value should you use?

A. Session identifier  
B. Sequence number  
C. Partition key  
D. Time stamp  

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Question 3

You need to mitigate the Azure Cache for Redis issue.What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? Each correct answer presents part of thesolution.NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Increase the maxmemory-reserved and maxfragmenTationmemory-reserved values  
B. Modify the maxmemory policy to evict the least frequently used keys out of all keys.  
C. Configure client connections to retry commands with exponential backoff.  
D. Test application code by purging the cache in the test environment.  
E. Test application code by rebooting all nodes in the test environment.  

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Question 4

You need to securely access inventory items when developing the Inventory Items API.What are three possible ways to achieve this goal? Each correct answer presents acomplete solution.NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Create a custom Microsoft Entra roleAssign the custom role to the Azure Cosmos DB account Update the function app to usecertificate-based authentication. 
B. Create a SQL role definition under the Azure Cosmos DB account.Create a user-assigned managed identity and assign the identity to the function app.Assign the user-assigned managed identity the SQL role definition.Update the function app code to implement the DefaultAzurecredential class and referencethe user-assigned managed identity. 
C. Create a system-assigned managed identity for the function app with read access tosecrets in Azure Key Vault. Store the Azure Cosmos DB primary key and URI in Azure KeyVault as secrets.Use function app settings to reference the secret values.
D. Create a custom Microsoft Entra role. Assign the custom role to Azure Key Vault. Assignthe custom role to the function app.Reference the custom role in the function app code when accessing Azure Key Vaultvalues.
E. Create a SQL role definition under the Azure Cosmos DB account. Assign the role to thefunction app's system-assigned managed identity. Programmatically access the AzureCosmos OB keys from the function app. 

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Question 5

You need to serve static content from the corporate website.What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? Each correct answer presents acomplete solution.NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Store all static content in Azure Blob Storage. Enable Azure Content Delivery Networkfor the storage account. 
B. Configure App Service networking to create a Content Delivery Network profile andendpoint. 
C. Configure the Azure App Service Local Cache feature and set the app settingWEBSITE_LOCAL_CACHE_SIZEINMB value. 
D. Update the Azure Traffic Manager routing method to priority.  
E. Create a nested Azure Traffic Manager profile. Configure the parent profile to theperformance traffic routing method and the chtld profile to the priority traffic routing method. 

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Question 6

You need to configure all site configuration settings for the corporate website.Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of thesolution.NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Create a managed identity.  
B. Update the role assignments for the Azure App Configuration store  
C. Create an Azure Key Vault.  
D. Create an Azure App Configuration store.  
E. Update the role assignments for the Azure Key Vault.  

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Question 7

You need to implement farmer authentication.Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of thesolution.NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Add the shared access signature (SAS) token to the app  
B. Create a shared access signature (SAS) token.  
C. Register the app in Microsoft Entra ID.  
D. Create a user flow.  
E. Add the app to the user flow.  

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Question 8

You need to implement an aggregate of telemetry values for distributor API calls.Which Application Insights API method should you use?

A. TrackTrace  
B. Track Exception  
C. TrackEvent  
D. TrackDependency  
E. TrackMetric  

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Question 9

You need to secure the corporate website to meet the security requirements.What should you do?

A. Create an App Service instance with a standard plan. Configure the custom domain witha TLS/SSL certificate. 
B. Create an Azure Application Gateway with a Web Application Firewall (WAF). Configureend-to-end TLS encryption and the WAF. 
C. Create an Azure Cache for Radis instance. Update the code to support the cache.  
D. Create an Azure Content Delivery Network profile and endpoint. Configure the endpoint.  

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Question 10

You need to test the availability of the corporate website. Which two test types can you use? 

A. Custom testing using the TrackAvailability API method  
B. Standard  
C. URL Ping  
D. Multi-step  

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