Free Practice Questions for Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Certification
Study with 360 exam-style practice questions designed to help you prepare for the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305). All questions are aligned with the latest exam guide and include detailed explanations to help you master the material.
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Key information about Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
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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Domain 1: Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
Subdomain 1.1: Design solutions for logging and monitoring
- Recommend a logging solution - Recommend a solution for routing logs - Recommend a monitoring solution
Subdomain 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
Subdomain 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
Domain 2: Design data storage solutions
Subdomain 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
Subdomain 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
Subdomain 2.3: Design data integration
- Recommend a solution for data integration - Recommend a solution for data analysis
Domain 3: Design business continuity solutions
Subdomain 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
Subdomain 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
Domain 4: Design infrastructure solutions
Subdomain 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
Subdomain 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
Subdomain 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
Subdomain 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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