Why This Cheat Sheet Matters for AZ-204
This cheat sheet covers the most important Event Grid & Service Bus concepts tested on the AZ-204 (Azure Developer Associate) certification exam. It contains 2 sections with 8 key points that you should memorize before exam day. Use this as a quick-reference guide during your final review sessions.
2Sections
8Key Points
Event Grid
- Pub/sub model: publishers emit events; subscribers handle them via webhooks or queues.
- System topics for Azure service events; custom topics for application events.
- Event filtering: subject prefix/suffix and advanced field-based filters.
- At-least-once delivery with 24-hour retry and dead-letter support.
Service Bus
- Queues: point-to-point with peek-lock (safe) or receive-and-delete (fast).
- Topics and subscriptions: publish-subscribe pattern with SQL-like filters.
- Sessions enable FIFO ordering and stateful message processing.
- Dead-letter queue captures messages that cannot be processed.
Practice Event Grid & Service Bus Questions
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Azure Quick Reference Tips
Azure services follow consistent naming patterns that help with exam recall. Resource Manager (ARM) templates use JSON, while Bicep provides a cleaner DSL for infrastructure as code. Remember that Azure resources are organised in a hierarchy: Management Groups → Subscriptions → Resource Groups → Resources.