Free Practice Questions for Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Certification
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- April 17, 2026
- Guide checked for updates:
- 9 Oct 2026
- Question bank created:
- 11 Feb 2026
- Question bank last updated:
- 11 Aug 2026
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associate (intermediate)
Advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations (networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, governance), plus experience with Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes.
Microsoft Azure solutions architects with subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions on Azure.
October 18, 2024
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1: Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
1.1: Design solutions for logging and monitoring
Recommend a logging solution; Recommend a solution for routing logs; Recommend a monitoring solution
1.2: Design authentication and authorization solutions
Recommend an authentication solution; Recommend an identity management solution; Recommend a solution for authorizing access to Azure resources; Recommend a solution for authorizing access to on-premises resources; Recommend a solution to manage secrets, certificates, and keys
1.3: Design governance
Recommend a structure for management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, and a strategy for resource tagging; Recommend a solution for managing compliance; Recommend a solution for identity governance
2: Design data storage solutions
2.1: Design data storage solutions for relational data
Recommend a solution for storing relational data; Recommend a database service tier and compute tier; Recommend a solution for database scalability; Recommend a solution for data protection
2.2: Design data storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data
Recommend a solution for storing semi-structured data; Recommend a solution for storing unstructured data; Recommend a data storage solution to balance features, performance, and costs; Recommend a data solution for protection and durability
2.3: Design data integration
Recommend a solution for data integration; Recommend a solution for data analysis
3: Design business continuity solutions
3.1: Design solutions for backup and disaster recovery
Recommend a recovery solution for Azure and hybrid workloads that meets recovery objectives; Recommend a backup and recovery solution for compute; Recommend a backup and recovery solution for databases; Recommend a backup and recovery solution for unstructured data
3.2: Design for high availability
Recommend a high availability solution for compute; Recommend a high availability solution for relational data; Recommend a high availability solution for semi-structured and unstructured data
4: Design infrastructure solutions
4.1: Design compute solutions
Specify components of a compute solution based on workload requirements; Recommend a virtual machine-based solution; Recommend a container-based solution; Recommend a serverless-based solution; Recommend a compute solution for batch processing
4.2: Design an application architecture
Recommend a messaging architecture; Recommend an event-driven architecture; Recommend a solution for API integration; Recommend a caching solution for applications; Recommend an application configuration management solution; Recommend an automated deployment solution for applications
4.3: Design migrations
Evaluate a migration solution that leverages the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure; Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration; Recommend a solution for migrating workloads to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS); Recommend a solution for migrating databases; Recommend a solution for migrating unstructured data
4.4: Design network solutions
Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet; Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks; Recommend a solution to optimize network performance; Recommend a solution to optimize network security; Recommend a load-balancing and routing solution
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