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AZ-204, the Azure Developer Associate exam, retired on 31 July 2026. The current intermediate Azure developer exam is AI-200, Developing AI Cloud Solutions on Azure, which earns the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate certification. Microsoft's pages do not call it a like-for-like replacement, and its outline is different. It is a 120-minute proctored exam with a pass mark of 700, and its outline shifts from general Azure development to containers, vector search in databases, messaging, serverless and observability. This guide compares the two outlines and gives a study plan for AI-200.

Who this is for

This is for developers who searched for an AZ-204 study guide, for people who planned to take AZ-204 and missed the date, and for anyone choosing an intermediate Azure developer certification.…