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What AZ-305 covers: Design Infrastructure Solutions (37%) • Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (29%) • Design Data Storage Solutions (23%)
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AZ-305
Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
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Which Azure service allows you to distribute traffic across global regions using DNS-based routing?
A. Incorrect: It is used for HTTP(S) traffic management and does not focus on global DNS-based routing.
B. Incorrect: It is designed for internal load balancing within a virtual network, not for global traffic distribution.
C. Incorrect: It is intended for application delivery and SSL termination, not for global DNS-based traffic routing.
D. Correct: Azure Traffic Manager is specifically designed for DNS-based traffic load balancing across global Azure regions.
A Conditional Access policy must strengthen sign-in security without blocking access outright. Which grant control is the least restrictive option that still adds protection?
A. Incorrect: It adds no extra protection at all.
B. Correct: MFA strengthens authentication without fully blocking the user.
C. Incorrect: Blocking access is the most restrictive outcome.
D. Incorrect: Turning off policies removes enforcement rather than applying a Conditional Access control.
Which Azure Storage redundancy option should an architect choose when blob data must be replicated to a secondary region and remain readable there before failover?
A. Correct: RA-GRS provides a replicated secondary region together with read access to the secondary endpoint.
B. Incorrect: ZRS protects data across availability zones in one region, not a readable secondary region.
C. Incorrect: LRS keeps copies within a single datacenter or region and does not provide a secondary region endpoint.
D. Incorrect: Premium SSD v2 is a managed-disk performance offering, not a blob redundancy option.
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Which feature allows you to restore a database from a specific point in time using Azure SQL Database?
A. Incorrect: Automated backups create the restore points, but the restore feature itself is point-in-time restore.
B. Correct: Point-in-time restore allows you to recover your database to any point in time within the retention period.
C. Incorrect: Long-term retention preserves backups for extended periods, but it is not the feature name for restoring to an exact point in time within the retention window.
D. Incorrect: Backup storage is where backups are kept, not the restore capability that targets a specific timestamp.
When should an architect recommend Azure Cache for Redis?
A. Correct: Caching is primarily about low-latency access and reducing repeated reads to slower backing stores.
B. Incorrect: Long-term backup retention is a data-protection requirement, not a caching use case.
C. Incorrect: Private DNS resolution is a networking concern, not the purpose of Redis caching.
D. Incorrect: Disaster recovery orchestration is handled by continuity services such as Azure Site Recovery, not Azure Cache for Redis.
What language do advanced users have access to when using KQL mode in the Log Analytics query editor?
A. Incorrect: It is used for relational databases and not specifically for Log Analytics.
B. Correct: Kusto Query Language (KQL) is the advanced query language available in the Log Analytics query editor.
C. Incorrect: It is a scripting language for managing Windows systems, not for querying logs.
D. Incorrect: It is used for SQL Server databases and not for Log Analytics.
Which option best protects Azure virtual machines from a datacenter-level failure within a supported region?
A. Correct: Availability zones are correct because they provide datacenter-level separation within a supported region.
B. Incorrect: Availability sets help with fault and update domains, but they do not provide the same datacenter-level separation as zones.
C. Incorrect: Proximity placement groups optimize latency, not resiliency to datacenter failure.
D. Incorrect: Scale sets help with scaling and orchestration, but by themselves they do not guarantee zone-level separation.
In Azure Data Factory, what component is used to manage connections to external data stores?
A. Incorrect: It is used to orchestrate activities in a data factory workflow.
B. Incorrect: Define how and where data is read from or written to, but do not manage connections.
C. Incorrect: It handle the execution of activities that require on-premises or cloud connectivity, but they do not establish external connections.
D. Correct: Linked services are specifically designed to manage connections to external data stores.
Which Azure service is the better fit when Azure services need to push event notifications to subscribers instead of using brokered queues or topics?
A. Correct: Event Grid is designed for push-based event routing to subscribers.
B. Incorrect: A Service Bus queue is brokered messaging for one consumer pattern, not general event push routing.
C. Incorrect: A Service Bus topic is brokered pub-sub messaging rather than the lightweight event-routing service described here.
D. Incorrect: Azure Batch is for parallel compute workloads, not event delivery.
Which Azure Monitor feature should you use to collect request rates, response times, dependency calls, and exceptions from an application?
A. Correct: Application Insights is Azure Monitor's application performance monitoring feature.
B. Incorrect: Azure Policy evaluates compliance and governance rules, not application telemetry.
C. Incorrect: Azure Backup protects data for recovery, not application observability.
D. Incorrect: Microsoft Purview focuses on data governance and cataloging, not request and dependency telemetry.
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AZ-305 is a design-heavy Azure exam, so it fits best when the role is drifting toward architecture, platform design, migration planning, and resilience decisions.
- Role examples: Azure Solutions Architect, cloud architect, senior cloud engineer, and platform lead.
- Where it shows up: cloud architecture, infrastructure design, migration planning, governance, and resilience engineering.
- On-the-job payoff: you already know the Azure basics and now need stronger judgment on identity, networking, compute, data, and recovery tradeoffs.
- Typical next step: It is often paired with AZ-104 so you have both administration depth and architecture coverage.
AZ-305 usually rewards clean service-selection logic, role clarity, and matching the scenario to the right Microsoft capability.
- Current emphasis in this bank: Design Infrastructure Solutions (37%).
- A lot of misses happen when the answer sounds like the right Microsoft product family but does not actually fit the workload, admin scope, or governance constraint in the prompt.
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