AZ-305 measures Azure solution architecture design. The official study guide organizes the exam into four skills areas with percentage ranges and design-focused objectives.
This area covers architecture recommendations for logging, monitoring, authentication, authorization, secrets, certificates, keys, management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tagging, compliance, and identity governance. Study Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and governance hierarchy as design choices.
This area asks you to recommend relational, semi-structured, and unstructured data solutions. Compare Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Storage Accounts, blob access tiers, redundancy, durability, scalability, protection, data integration, and data analysis options. The design should balance features, performance, cost, protection, and workload fit.
This area covers backup, disaster recovery, and high availability. Review Azure Backup, Site Recovery, SQL backup and recovery, zone redundancy, failover approaches, recovery objectives, compute availability, relational database availability, and durability for semi-structured and unstructured data. RTO and RPO should drive the recommendation.
This area covers compute, application architecture, migrations, and networks. Compare VM-based, container-based, serverless, and batch compute; App Service, Functions, AKS, Container Apps, VM Scale Sets, messaging, event-driven architecture, API integration, caching, configuration management, migration approaches, Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Front Door, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, DNS, Private Link, and Azure Firewall.
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Official and vendor docs used to ground this page.
Official Microsoft certification page for Azure Solutions Architect Expert, including role description, prerequisite certification, required AZ-305 exam, and assessed skills.
Official AZ-305 study guide with the current audience profile, skills measured, domain ranges, and detailed solution architecture objectives.
Explains Azure Blob Storage access tiers, useful when designing storage solutions that balance performance, retention, and cost.
Explains reliability targets and metrics used when designing Azure architectures for availability and recovery objectives.
Explains Azure SQL Database automated backups, retention, and recovery behavior relevant to business continuity design.
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