We recommend Microsoft Azure Developer Associate AZ-204 Test Prep by Microsoft on Coursera. Certificate earned at December 14, 2021

It should take you approximately forty weeks to complete this Specialization. You will be assigned approximately one to two hours worth of work to complete every week for the forty weeks it takes to complete the eight courses.

Leaqrners should have 1-2 years of professional development experience and experience with Microsoft Azure. In addition, they should have the ability to program in a language supported by Azure and be well versed in .Net and C#. They should be proficient 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.

Yes. We highly recommend taking the courses of each certificate program in the order they are presented. The content in the courses builds on information from earlier courses. The final course contains a practice exam that assesses your knowledge of the content covered in the previous courses. It makes the most sense to take them in the order they come in.

In short, no. Completing this Specialization will not earn you professional or academic credits. If you need to know whether a Coursera Certificate will count toward accreditation for a specific organization or program, please ask a representative of that organization or program.

This Specialization will prepare you to take the Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure . When learners have completed this specialization, they will be able to: Develop Azure compute solutions Develop for Azure storage Implement Azure security Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services