Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305) Practice Exam

The Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification validates your expertise in designing and implementing secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure. Earning the AZ-305 certification demonstrates your ability to translate business needs into robust Azure architectures, encompassing aspects like computing, networking, storage, security, and identity.

Who Should Take This Exam?

The AZ-305 certification is ideal for IT professionals with a strong understanding of cloud concepts and experience in designing and managing on-premises infrastructure, including:

• Cloud Architects: Designing and implementing secure and scalable cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Solutions Architects: Specializing in designing Azure infrastructure solutions that meet business requirements.
• Cloud Infrastructure Engineers: Transitioning from on-premises infrastructure to designing and managing cloud infrastructure in Azure.
• Anyone seeking to: Demonstrate their proficiency in designing Microsoft Azure infrastructure solutions that align with business objectives.

Prerequisites

While there are no formal prerequisites, Microsoft recommends that candidates possess:

Advanced experience in IT operations, encompassing:

• Virtualization
• Networking
• Security
• Identity and access management
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
• Data platform solutions
• Governance

Experience with Azure administration is beneficial but not mandatory.

Understanding DevOps processes can be advantageous.

Roles and Responsibilities 

With the AZ-305 certification, you might qualify for roles such as:

• Azure Solutions Architect: Designing, developing, and deploying complex cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Cloud Infrastructure Architect: Specializing in designing and managing secure and scalable Azure infrastructure for enterprise deployments.
• Cloud Security Architect: Contributing to the design of secure Azure infrastructure solutions, incorporating security best practices.

Exam Details

• Delivery Method: Proctored online exam or testing center
• Duration: 180 minutes
• Passing Score: 70%.

Course Outline 

The Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305) covers the latest exam updates - 

MODULE 1 - Learn to Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

Overview to Design a solution for logging and monitoring

• design a log routing solution
• suggest an appropriate level of logging
• suggest monitoring tools for a solution

Overview to Design authentication and authorization solutions

• suggest a solution for securing resources with role-based access control
• suggest an identity management solution
• suggest a solution for securing identities

Overview to Design governance

• suggest an organizational and hierarchical structure for Azure resources
• suggest a solution for enforcing and auditing compliance

Overview to Design identities and access for applications

• suggest solutions to allow applications to access Azure resources
• suggest a solution that securely stores passwords and secrets
• suggest a solution for integrating applications into Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
• suggest a user consent solution for applications

MODULE 2 - Learn to Design Data Storage Solutions (25-30%)

Overview to Design a data storage solution for relational data

• suggest database service tier sizing
• suggest a solution for database scalability
• suggest a solution for encrypting data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use

Overview to Design data integration

• suggest a solution for data integration
• suggest a solution for data analysis
• Overview to Recommend a data storage solution
• suggest a solution for storing relational data
• suggest a solution for storing semi-structured data
• suggest a solution for storing non-relational data

Overview to Design a data storage solution for non-relational data

• suggest access control solutions to data storage
• suggest a data storage solution to balance features, performance, and cost
• design a data solution for protection and durability

MODULE 3 - Learn to Design Business Continuity Solutions (10-15%)

Overview to Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery

• suggest a recovery solution for Azure, hybrid, and on-premises workloads that meet recovery objectives (Recovery Time Objective [RTO], Recovery Level Objective [RLO], Recovery Point Objective [RPO])
• understand the recovery solutions for containers
• suggest a backup and recovery solution for compute
• suggest a backup and recovery solution for databases
• suggest a backup and recovery solution for unstructured data

Overview to Design for high availability

• identify the availability requirements of Azure resources
• suggest a high availability solution for compute
• suggest a high availability solution for non-relational data storage
• suggest a high availability solution for relational data storage

MODULE 4 - Learn to Design Infrastructure Solutions (25-30%)

• Overview to Design a compute solution
• suggest a virtual machine-based compute solution
• suggest an appropriately sized compute solution based on workload requirements
• suggest a container-based compute solution
• suggest a serverless-based compute solution

Overview to Design an application architecture

• suggest a caching solution for applications
• suggest a messaging architecture
• suggest an event-driven architecture
• suggest an automated deployment solution for your applications
• suggest an application configuration management solution
• suggest a solution for API integration

Overview to Design migrations

• assess a migration solution that leverages the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
• assess and interpret on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
• suggest a solution for migrating applications and virtual machines
• suggest a solution for migrating databases
• suggest a solution for migrating unstructured data

Overview to Design network solutions

• suggest a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
• suggest a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet
• suggest a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks
• optimize network performance for applications
• suggest a solution to optimize network security
• suggest a load balancing and routing solution