Azure Solutions Architect Expert Practice Exams
AZ-305Design identity, governance, data storage, business continuity and infrastructure solutions.
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5 flashcard sets · 5 learning tests · 2 timed exams · 100-question bank
Overview
What this certification is and how the exam works.
Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions leads to the Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential — Microsoft's premier architecture certification. It validates designing identity, data storage, business continuity, and infrastructure solutions. Earning the Expert badge also requires the AZ-104 Administrator certification.
Why should I take the exam?
What this credential does for your career.
- 1Expert-level: the highest-tier Azure credential for architecture roles
- 2Architect roles carry some of the highest salaries in the Microsoft ecosystem
- 3Validates the design judgment — trade-offs, HA/DR, governance — that senior roles demand
- 4Strong differentiation for consultants and pre-sales engineers
Skills measured
What you need to know to pass this exam.
- ✓Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
- ✓Design data storage solutions for relational and non-relational data
- ✓Design business continuity: high availability, backup, and disaster recovery
- ✓Design infrastructure: compute, networking, and migration solutions
- ✓Apply the Azure Well-Architected Framework to architecture decisions
Prerequisites
Credentials required before you can earn this certification.
About our AZ-305 practice exams
Our Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 question bank holds 100 exam-style questions with a written explanation on every answer, mapped to the four exam domains published for AZ-305, covering Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions, Design data storage solutions, Design business continuity solutions and Design infrastructure solutions.
Alongside the bank there are two full-length timed exams at the real 100-minute limit and 70% pass mark, plus five topic-based learning tests for working a single domain at a time. The bank includes 10 multiple-response questions, so the interactive formats are not a surprise on exam day. Randomised mock exams are dealt on demand from the full 100-question pool, so you never run out of fresh papers.
- Questions
- 100
- Exam domains
- 4
- Timed exams
- 2
- Pass mark
- 70%
How our practice content is created
Practice questions are independently developed using the official Microsoft AZ-305 exam guide and Microsoft documentation. Each question is checked for alignment with the current exam objectives and reviewed for technical accuracy before publication.
The AZ-305 bank cites 98 distinct Microsoft documentation pages, and every question links the source it was written against — so you can check any answer at first hand.
Official AZ-305 exam guideMicrosoft is a trademark of its respective owner. This is an independent study resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or authorised by Microsoft.
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Official resources
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Previous exam versions
Old or retired versions of this certification exam.
| Exam name | Code | Retired |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies / Design | AZ-303 / AZ-304 | March 2022 |
| Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies / Design | AZ-300 / AZ-301 | September 2020 |
5 flashcard sets · 5 learning tests · 2 timed exams · 100-question bank