Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Audio Study Guide & Podcasts

Andrew and Ava untangle Azure Storage Account gotchas (kind/SKU/replication/HNS, and why you keep having to recreate stuff) and Cosmos DB Change Feed realities (per-partition ordering, leases, at-least-once, and why deletes ghost you).

Andrew and Ava drag two AZ-204 favorites into the light: API Management policies (rate-limit vs quota, scopes, products) and Event Grid’s ‘at-least-once, no FIFO’ reality—plus the exam traps that love to ruin your day.

Andrew and Ava unpack the AZ-204 security traps: Key Vault soft-delete vs purge protection, RBAC vs access policies, HSM realities, and why Entra ID SSO doesn’t magically equal authorization.

Andrew and Ava unpack Azure App Service deployment slots and Function App slot gotchas—what actually swaps, what stubbornly doesn’t, and why the exam loves to pretend swaps are magic.

Andrew and Ava unpack Application Insights, Azure Monitor, sampling, and the evil twins of alerting: evaluation window vs frequency—plus how not to build a flappy, noisy alert system right before your AZ-204 exam.