About the exam
AZ-305 Exam structure
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 prep with 601 original practice questions, skills-measured weighted mocks, architecture drills, flashcards, and topic recovery.
Issuer and path
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Design Identity, Governance and Monitoring Solutions
28 scored + 0 pretest
Monitoring and logging design, authentication, authorization, identity governance, management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tagging, compliance, and secrets.
Design Data Storage Solutions
22 scored + 0 pretest
Relational, semi-structured, and unstructured storage choices, scalability, protection, durability, performance, cost, data integration, and analytics design.
Design Business Continuity Solutions
18 scored + 0 pretest
Backup, disaster recovery, RTO, RPO, high availability, failover, compute recovery, database recovery, and resilient storage architecture.
Design Infrastructure Solutions
32 scored + 0 pretest
Compute, containers, serverless, application architecture, messaging, APIs, caching, deployments, migrations, networking, routing, and performance optimization.
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Official Outline Coverage Map
Coverage is mapped to official outline item counts so content depth can be checked without hard-coding a single exam.
| Topic | Official outline items | Your questions | Your flashcards | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monitoring, Logging and Operations Design | 7 | 56 | 10 | Priority |
| Authentication, Authorization and Identity Design | 7 | 56 | 10 | Priority |
| Governance, Compliance and Subscription Design | 7 | 56 | 10 | Priority |
| Relational Data Storage Design | 6 | 66 | 10 | Priority |
| Semi-Structured, Unstructured and Integration Design | 6 | 66 | 10 | Priority |
| Backup and Disaster Recovery Design | 5 | 54 | 10 | Priority |
| High Availability and Resilience Design | 5 | 54 | 10 | Priority |
| Compute Architecture Design | 7 | 49 | 10 | Priority |
| Application Architecture and Integration Design | 7 | 48 | 10 | Priority |
| Migration and Modernization Design | 6 | 48 | 10 | Good |
| Networking and Performance Design | 6 | 48 | 10 | Priority |
How to use this guide
How to study for AZ-305
Treat each AZ-305 item as an architecture decision: identify the workload requirement, governance boundary, data shape, recovery objective, and infrastructure tradeoff before choosing.
1. Identify the design driver
Decide whether the scenario is mainly about governance, identity, data, continuity, migration, network, compute, integration, or operations.
2. Check constraints
Read for RTO, RPO, compliance, latency, scalability, cost, migration downtime, identity boundary, and security requirements.
3. Choose the platform pattern
Select the Azure service combination that satisfies requirements with appropriate control and operational responsibility.
4. Validate tradeoffs
Confirm resiliency, observability, governance, performance, data protection, and cost before finalizing.
Monitoring, Logging and Operations Design
Architect items test Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, diagnostic settings, log routing, alerts, dashboards, and operational visibility.
Key rules
Rule 1
Monitoring, Logging and Operations Design questions test Azure architecture tradeoff decisions rather than isolated service-name recall.
Exam cue: Identify the requirement, workload type, data shape, access boundary, recovery target, and operational ownership model.
Rule 2
The best answer maps business requirements to identity, governance, data, resilience, compute, network, security, cost, and operations constraints.
Exam cue: Choose the Azure design that satisfies the constraint with the least unnecessary operational burden.
Rule 3
Eliminate answers that ignore governance scope, recovery objectives, data durability, private connectivity, security boundaries, or workload fit.
Exam cue: Prefer Well-Architected choices: secure, reliable, cost-aware, observable, governed, and scalable.
Common traps
Choosing a service before identifying the business driver and nonfunctional requirement.
Prevention: Avoid answers that pick services without checking governance scope, data model, recovery target, migration dependency, or network boundary.
Solving availability while ignoring identity, data protection, compliance, or cost constraints.
Prevention: Avoid answers that pick services without checking governance scope, data model, recovery target, migration dependency, or network boundary.
Assuming a migration, networking, or storage pattern is correct without checking workload dependencies.
Prevention: Avoid answers that pick services without checking governance scope, data model, recovery target, migration dependency, or network boundary.
Memory anchors
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor collects, analyzes, and acts on metrics and logs from Azure and hybrid resources.
Log Analytics Workspace
A Log Analytics workspace stores Azure Monitor logs and supports Kusto queries for analysis.
Diagnostic Setting
A diagnostic setting routes platform logs and metrics to destinations such as Log Analytics, storage, or Event Hubs.
Application Insights
Application Insights monitors application performance, dependencies, exceptions, and user behavior.
Action Group
An action group defines notification and automation actions for alerts.
Alert Rule
An alert rule evaluates signals and fires when configured conditions are met.
Workbook
An Azure Monitor workbook creates interactive operational reports from metrics and logs.
Log Routing
Log routing sends diagnostic data to the location required for retention, analytics, or SIEM integration.
Baseline
A monitoring baseline defines expected behavior so anomalies and regressions are visible.
Operational Ownership
Operational ownership defines who receives alerts, responds, and maintains runbooks.
Next best moves
Quick check-up
Use a short quiz to confirm the rule pattern is actually sticking.
Check-up Questions
You need a single destination to collect and query logs from multiple Azure VMs, App Services, and Kubernetes clusters. Which resource should you design as the central store?
Your design must alert an on-call team by SMS and email whenever a metric crosses a threshold. Which Azure Monitor component defines who is notified and how?
Answer all questions to submit.
Next step personalized recommendations
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Official resources
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FAQ
Common AZ-305 questions
Is this the official Microsoft AZ-305 exam?
No. These are original practice questions aligned to Microsoft's public AZ-305 study guide. They are not copied from secure exam material.
Which skills-measured version is this aligned to?
This content is aligned to the Microsoft Learn AZ-305 study guide that lists skills measured as of April 17, 2026.
What domains are covered?
The bank covers identity, governance, monitoring, data storage, business continuity, and infrastructure design.
What should I study first?
Start with Azure Monitor, Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, storage and database choices, RTO/RPO, compute hosting, messaging, migration, and networking.
How should I use the 601 questions?
Use topic drills for architecture weak spots, section drills for each skills group, then 100-question weighted mocks.