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Read this before you book: AZ-204 retires on July 31, 2026. Microsoft is retiring Exam AZ-204 and the Azure Developer Associate certification at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time on that date, and replacing them with Exam AI-200, leading to the Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate certification. If you are not already booked and deep in preparation, do not start AZ-204 now. An already-earned certification is not revoked, but it cannot be renewed after the deadline. While it lasts, AZ-204 is 100 minutes, needs 700 out of 1000, costs $165, has no prerequisite, and its biggest domain is Develop Azure compute solutions at 25 to 30 percent.

Last updated July 2026

AZ-204 dies on July 31, 2026, and the prep industry has not updated its pages

This is the most important fact about AZ-204 right now, and it is missing from most of the pages currently selling AZ-204 courses and question banks. Microsoft's warning block on the official study guide reads:

"This exam will retire on July 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time."

And on the certification page: "This certification, related exam, and renewal assessments will retire on July 31, 2026. You will no longer be able to earn or renew this certification after this date."

The replacement is Exam AI-200, which earns the Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate certification. AZ-204 is not being retired on its own. It is one of six credentials in a Cloud and AI rebrand wave that Microsoft announced together, and knowing the whole map is worth more than knowing your one exam.

The full Microsoft retirement wave, as published

Retiring exam Certification retires Replacement exam
AZ-204 (Azure Developer Associate)July 31, 2026AI-200 (Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate)
AZ-500 (Azure Security Engineer Associate)August 31, 2026SC-500 (Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate)
AZ-800 and AZ-801 (Windows Server Hybrid Administrator)September 2026 (Microsoft marks this one as a planned date)AZ-802 (Windows Server Administrator Associate)
DP-100 (Azure Data Scientist Associate)June 1, 2026AI-300 (Machine Learning Operations Engineer Associate)
AI-102 (Azure AI Engineer Associate)June 30, 2026AI-103 (Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate)
AI-900 (Azure AI Fundamentals)June 30, 2026AI-901 (Azure AI Fundamentals)

Source: Microsoft's own certification retirement announcement. Dates marked by Microsoft as expected are subject to change, so confirm on Microsoft's pages before you book.

So what should you actually do?

Your situation What to do
You already hold AZ-204Nothing changes today. Microsoft states an earned certification stays in the Active Certifications section of your transcript until it expires, then moves to Historical Certifications. But you cannot renew it after July 31, 2026, because the renewal assessment retires too. When it lapses, AI-200 is the path forward.
You are booked and sitting it before July 31Finish. A certification earned now is real, it goes on your transcript, and it buys you a year of validity. Study the current objectives, not a 2023 course.
You are just starting to studyDo not start AZ-204. There is not enough runway. Prepare for AI-200 instead. Beginning a study plan for an exam that dies in a few weeks buys you a credential with no renewal path.
Your employer is paying for "the Azure developer cert"Send them this section. The certification your employer means is now AI-200, and training budgets are usually approved against a name that just changed.

What the prep industry is still selling, with days left on the clock

We checked live AZ-204 prep pages against Microsoft's own documentation on the day this page was written. Every string below is what those sites serve right now, not an old cached copy. Not one of them mentions the retirement.

Site What it publishes today What Microsoft actually says
ExamTopics"Browse 487 Questions" and "95.1% Average score during Real Exams at the Testing Centre," sold as current. The page contains zero mentions of "retire," "July 31, 2026" or "AI-200."The exam retires in weeks. Microsoft publishes no question count and no pass rate, and reports scaled scores from 1 to 1,000, not percentages. Their own footer admits: "ExamTopics doesn't offer Real Microsoft Exam Questions."
testpreptraining.com"Retirement Date: None." Also "150 minutes," a passing score of "700 out of 900," and a full walkthrough of the "Implement caching for solutions" objective.The retirement date is July 31, 2026. The exam is 100 minutes. The scale is 1 to 1,000, not 900. And Microsoft removed the caching objective on April 11, 2025.
k21academy.comThe monitoring domain at "10 to 15%," including the caching module.That domain is 5 to 10 percent, and the caching objective no longer exists. Both changed in April 2025.
scholarhat.comStill sells an AZ-203 training course that "lines up with the most recent (2019) release," with a 2026 copyright and no retirement notice anywhere on the page.AZ-203 retired on August 31, 2020. Microsoft's own page for it says so plainly.

The AZ-203 example is the useful one, because it tells you what happens next. That exam died in 2020 and courses for it are still on sale in 2026. Nothing forces a prep vendor to take a dead exam off the shelf, which means AZ-204 material will keep selling long after July 31. The date is published, it is free to check, and the responsibility for checking it lands on you.

Either way, most of the engineering does not evaporate. Containers, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Cosmos DB, Key Vault and App Configuration all appear in the AI-200 skills outline too, so that study time carries forward. Be precise about what does not carry, though, because this is where people waste weeks: Blob Storage, API Management, Event Hubs, Queue Storage, Microsoft Entra ID authentication and managed identity are not in the AI-200 outline at all. What replaces them is vector work: embeddings in Cosmos DB, pgvector in PostgreSQL, vector indexing in Redis and retrieval-augmented generation patterns. If you are studying this material, upload your notes and generate exam questions from your own documentation. Questions built from your own material keep working after the exam code changes, which is more than you can say for a question bank you bought last month.

Exam time
100 minutes
Passing score
700 / 1000
Retires
Jul 31, 2026
Practice questions
Unlimited

AZ-204 skills measured, current objectives

Five domains, as published in Microsoft's study guide for Exam AZ-204, skills measured as of January 14, 2026.

Domain What is actually in it Weight
Develop Azure compute solutionsAzure Functions, containers (Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Apps), and App Service web apps. The biggest domain, and where most people lose marks on triggers and bindings.25 to 30%
Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party servicesAPI Management, event-based solutions (Event Grid, Event Hubs), and message-based solutions (Service Bus, Queue Storage). The second biggest, and consistently underrated.20 to 25%
Develop for Azure storageAzure Cosmos DB and Azure Blob Storage: partitioning, consistency levels, the SDKs, lifecycle management and properties/metadata.15 to 20%
Implement Azure securityAuthentication and authorization with Microsoft Entra ID and the Microsoft Identity platform, shared access signatures, Azure Key Vault, and managed identities.15 to 20%
Monitor and troubleshoot Azure solutionsAzure Monitor Application Insights, plus caching and content delivery with Azure Cache for Redis and Azure CDN. The smallest domain, and it shrank.5 to 10%

Microsoft gives 100 minutes for the assessment and does not publish a question count for AZ-204. Its general guidance across all exams is 40 to 60 questions. AZ-204 is proctored, has no prerequisite, and like other role-based exams it lets you browse learn.microsoft.com while you sit it, with no extra time granted.

The monitoring domain was cut in half, and stale study guides still have it at 15 to 20 percent

If you are revising from material written before spring 2025, your time allocation is wrong. The last real reweight of AZ-204 landed on April 11, 2025. Microsoft renamed the monitoring domain, dropped the word "optimize" from it, removed the "Implement caching for solutions" objective, and cut the domain's weight. Here is what actually moved, recovered from archived snapshots of Microsoft's own study guide.

Domain Weight in 2023 Weight now
Monitor and troubleshoot Azure solutions15 to 20%5 to 10%, roughly halved
Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services15 to 20%20 to 25%, raised
Implement Azure security20 to 25%15 to 20%, lowered
Develop Azure compute solutions25 to 30%25 to 30%, unchanged
Develop for Azure storage15 to 20%15 to 20%, unchanged

Read the top two rows together. Monitoring roughly halved while service integration rose, and integration is now the second-largest domain on the paper. If you are budgeting study time from an old blueprint, you are over-studying Application Insights and under-studying Event Grid, Service Bus and API Management. That is a straightforward way to fail a paper you were ready for.

One honest caveat about Microsoft's own change log, because we would rather flag it than launder it: the April 2025 log says the compute domain's percentage "increased" while printing an identical 25 to 30 percent range on both sides. The published band did not move, so the shift happened inside it. We are reporting the published ranges, not our guess at what sits behind them.

Since then, nothing. The January 14, 2026 update, the most recent one, changed zero percentages. Every functional group in the change log is marked "No change" or "No % change". The real edits were renaming one objective to say "Azure Monitor Application Insights" instead of "Application Insights", and a minor touch to message-based solutions. If a course is advertising itself as "updated for the January 2026 AZ-204 blueprint" as though the exam was rebalanced, it is selling you a find-and-replace.

Check your source before you trust its numbers

We pulled the live pages of the sites ranking for AZ-204 prep and compared each claim against Microsoft's published documentation. The results are not close. These are quotes from pages that are live today.

What the prep site says What Microsoft says Why it matters
TestPrepTraining's exam-format table lists "Retirement Date: None".The exam retires July 31, 2026.A reader planning a three-month study schedule around that page will be studying for an exam that no longer exists.
TestPrepTraining: "you must achieve a minimum score of 700 out of 900."Scores are reported on a scale of 1 to 1000. A passing score is 700.Out of 900 would make the pass mark 78 percent. It is not. The scale is simply wrong.
The same page gives the exam as "150 minutes" in its table and "85 minutes" in its body.100 minutes.Two different wrong answers on one page. Neither is Microsoft's number.
The same page still lists "Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions (10-15%)".That domain was renamed and cut to 5 to 10 percent in April 2025.It is publishing a domain that has not existed for over a year.
ScholarHat: "Duration: You'll have 120 minutes to complete the exam."100 minutes for the assessment. 120 minutes is the seat time, which includes instructions and the agreement.Pacing your mocks at 120 minutes trains you to run 20 percent slow.
ScholarHat cross-sells an "AZ-203 Training Course".AZ-203 retired on August 31, 2020.Nearly six years dead, still on sale.

To be fair, some sites get it right. EduSum publishes the correct current weights. The point is not that every prep site lies, it is that you cannot tell which one is stale by looking at it, and a confident table of wrong numbers looks exactly like a confident table of right ones.

There is a second-order lesson here about question count. Microsoft publishes no question count for AZ-204. What it publishes is a general statement that most exams "typically contain between 40-60 questions" and that the number varies. Sites take that generic range and print it as an AZ-204 fact. It is not a fabrication so much as a laundering, but you should not plan your pacing around it.

Microsoft also publishes no pass rate for AZ-204, or for any exam. If you see one, someone made it up.

How to make AZ-204 practice questions from your own notes

With the exam retiring and half the published guides out of date, questions generated from current material beat any bank you can buy.

1
Upload current material
Your own service documentation, SDK notes, a codebase README, or a prep PDF published after April 2025.
2
Weight compute and integration
Together they are half the paper. Functions, containers and App Service, then Event Grid, Service Bus and API Management.
3
AI writes the questions
Exam-style items with an answer key and explanations, using the product names your source material uses.
4
Carry it into AI-200
Compute, storage, security and integration all survive the rename. The skills transfer even though the exam code does not.

AZ-204 questions, answered

Is AZ-204 being retired?
Yes. Microsoft states that Exam AZ-204 and the Azure Developer Associate certification retire on July 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time. After that date you can no longer earn or renew this certification. The replacement is Exam AI-200, which leads to the Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate certification.
What replaces AZ-204?
Exam AI-200, which earns the Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate certification. AZ-204 is one of six exams in a Cloud and AI rebrand wave that also moves AZ-500 to SC-500, DP-100 to AI-300, AI-102 to AI-103, AI-900 to AI-901, and AZ-800 and AZ-801 to AZ-802.
If I already passed AZ-204, do I lose my certification when it retires?
No. Microsoft states that a certification earned or renewed before retirement stays on your transcript in the Active Certifications section until it expires, then moves to Historical Certifications. What you lose is the ability to renew it, because the renewal assessment retires with the exam on July 31, 2026.
What are the AZ-204 domain weights?
Develop Azure compute solutions is the largest domain at 25 to 30 percent. Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services is 20 to 25 percent, develop for Azure storage is 15 to 20 percent, implement Azure security is 15 to 20 percent, and monitor and troubleshoot Azure solutions is the smallest at 5 to 10 percent.
How long is the AZ-204 exam and how many questions?
Microsoft's certification page states you have 100 minutes to complete the assessment. Microsoft does not publish a question count for AZ-204. Its general, all-exams guidance is that most exams contain 40 to 60 questions, and that the number varies by exam.
What score do you need to pass AZ-204?
700 or greater on a scale of 1 to 1000. Microsoft explicitly notes that because this is a scaled score, it may not equal 70 percent of the points. Any site telling you the pass mark is 700 out of 900, or that it equals 70 percent competency, is contradicting Microsoft in writing.
How much does the AZ-204 exam cost?
$165 USD in the United States, the standard price for Microsoft role-based associate exams. Its replacement, AI-200, is also $165. Fundamentals exams such as AZ-900 cost $99. Pricing varies by the country or region in which the exam is proctored, and tax may be added.
Is there a prerequisite for AZ-204?
No. Microsoft lists no prerequisite certification or exam for AZ-204. It recommends at least two years of programming experience, proficiency with the Azure SDKs, and proficiency using the Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell and related tools.
Is there a free AZ-204 practice assessment?
Yes. Microsoft publishes a free official Practice Assessment for AZ-204 on Microsoft Learn, along with a free Exam Sandbox that shows you the real question interface. Use both. Then generate more questions from your own notes, because the official assessment is a fixed set and you will memorize it.

PDFQuiz is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft, Azure, and Microsoft Entra ID are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. This generator builds practice questions from material you upload and is a study aid, not a substitute for Microsoft's official learning paths. Retirement dates and exam details change: always confirm on Microsoft's own pages before you book.

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