Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification Practise Exam

Who it is for

• Azure solutions architects preparing for the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification (AZ-305).
• Practitioners who design cloud and hybrid Microsoft Azure solutions and need practice with identity, storage, business continuity, and infrastructure.

What this exam covers

• Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions — 25–30%
• Design data storage solutions — 20–25%
• Design business continuity solutions — 15–20%
• Design infrastructure solutions — 30–35%

What you will practice

• Recommend logging, monitoring, identity, authorization, and governance structures for Microsoft Azure.
• Recommend relational, semi-structured, and unstructured data storage plus data integration and analysis.
• Recommend backup, disaster recovery, and high availability for Azure and hybrid workloads.
• Recommend compute, application architecture, migration, and network designs for Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

About this practice exam

The Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification exam tests a candidate’s ability to design cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security, and to translate business requirements into designs that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. This practice exam prepares you for Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) across identity, governance, and monitoring solutions, data storage solutions, business continuity solutions, and infrastructure solutions.

The exam emphasizes recommending logging, log routing, and monitoring; authentication, identity management, and authorization for Azure and on-premises resources, including secrets, certificates, and keys; governance for management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tagging, compliance, and identity governance; data storage for relational, semi-structured, and unstructured data plus data integration and analysis; backup, disaster recovery, and high availability; and infrastructure design for virtual machines, containers, serverless and batch compute, messaging and event-driven application architecture, migrations using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, and networking including load balancers. It does not primarily assess day-to-day Azure administration, application development, or DevOps pipeline operations as standalone roles.

The official Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305) exam is 40–60 questions in 100 minutes. This practice exam follows the four official Azure Solutions Architect domains and their published weights.

The certification validates understanding of:

• Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions: logging, log routing, and monitoring; authentication, identity management, and authorization to Azure and on-premises resources; secrets, certificates, and keys; management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resource tagging; compliance and identity governance.
• Design data storage solutions: relational data including database service and compute tiers, scalability, and data protection; semi-structured and unstructured data with a balance of features, performance, and cost plus protection and durability; data integration and data analysis.
• Design business continuity solutions: recovery for Azure and hybrid workloads that meets recovery objectives; backup and recovery for compute, databases, and unstructured data; high availability for compute, relational data, and semi-structured and unstructured data.
• Design infrastructure solutions: compute based on workload requirements, including virtual machine, container, serverless, and batch solutions; messaging, event-driven architecture, API integration, caching, application configuration, and automated deployment; migrations evaluated with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS), including databases and unstructured data; connectivity to the internet and on-premises networks, network performance and security, and load-balancing and routing.