The study guide is broken down according to the topics documented for the exam. I've laid out study material for each one separately. So without futher adieu, taken directly from the Microsoft learning site, here are the skills measured by the exam and your entry points into the study material:
- Develop Azure Infrastructure as a Service Compute Solutions (10-15%)
- Develop Azure Platform as a Service Compute Solutions (20-25%)
- Develop for Azure storage (15-20%)
- Implement Azure security (10-15%)
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions (15-20%)
- Connect to and Consume Azure Services and Third-party Services (20-25%)
I'm not going to focus on things like exam structure, pricing, yada yada. You can easily find this information with a search or directly on the Microsoft learning site. What I'll focus on is the resources that target the topics covered by the exam, and my opinion on what you should be focusing on during the course of your study time.
This exam is meant to be take by a practitioner. You most likely need at least one (1) year of experience in development. Do you need to know everything? No, you don't.
The exam is almost entirely in C#, so having a working knowledge of Azure SDKs is going to be a prerquisite to passing the exam. If you know other languages, that's great and it should translate to being able to answer the questions since you'll understand general rules for imperative and/or functional programming.
If you don't or have never written code, the exam is going to be a big challenge for you.
- Isaac Levin, a Microsoft Applications Development Manager, has also provided a study guide