AZ-305Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
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Study guide
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About AZ-305
The design exam for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification. You get requirements and pick the architecture: identity and governance, data platforms, backup and disaster recovery, compute, networking and migration.
Who it's for. Architects designing Azure solutions. AZ-104 is the expected background.
How to prepare
- Many answers depend on the SLA. Know which configurations raise availability: zones, sets and paired regions.
- Data platform choice is heavily weighted: SQL Database tiers, Managed Instance, Cosmos DB and Synapse or Fabric.
- Separate Azure Backup from Site Recovery by what each one restores.
Sample AZ-305 questions
Try these with the answers on the page, then practise the full bank.
- A utility company collects several million meter readings a day from smart devices. Analysts query the data each morning, and anything older than a month should move to a cheaper class of storage. Which platform is the best fit? Design data storage solutions
- A public-records portal must keep serving read requests from a second region while the primary region is down, without first performing a failover. Which replication option meets this? Design data storage solutions
- A design firm runs Linux render nodes and Windows workstations in Azure, and both must mount the same project volume. The volume must support NFS and SMB on the same data, and Windows users must authenticate against the corporate Active Directory. Which service fits? Design data storage solutions
- A platform team wants to stop engineers from creating oversized virtual machines in the production subscriptions, no matter which deployment tool they use. Which mechanism should the team apply? Design identity, governance and monitoring solutions
- A security team must receive a notification whenever an administrator activates an eligible Microsoft Entra directory role, so the activation can be reviewed promptly. Which capability should the team configure? Design identity, governance and monitoring solutions
- A social app runs in two Azure regions and keeps user session tokens in a cache. If one region fails, users must keep their sessions without signing in again. Which service should hold the session state? Design data storage solutions
- A retail site must serve users worldwide from edge locations, terminate TLS close to the user, block common web attacks and malicious bots, and fail over between two backend regions within seconds. Which service should you deploy? Design business continuity solutions
- A bank runs an OLTP workload on a managed SQL instance and needs regional disaster recovery. Data loss of up to one hour is acceptable, recovery within four hours is required, and the application should reconnect through a stable listener name without changing connection strings after a failover. What should you configure? Design business continuity solutions
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Is this AZ-305 practice exam free?
Yes. All 180 questions, the timed mock exam and the explanations are free, and there's no account to create.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Real exam questions are confidential under the Azure candidate agreement. These are practice questions written to cover the same domains in the same scenario style, each with an explanation of why the answer is right.
How is the AZ-305 mock exam scored?
Questions are drawn from every domain in proportion to the exam guide, and you get a raw percentage with a breakdown by domain. Azure uses scaled scoring, so treat 75% or more here as a sign you're ready rather than a predicted score.
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