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Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

The AZ-305 validates senior-level Azure architecture skills. Requires AZ-104 as a prerequisite. Exam includes case studies testing holistic architectural judgement across Azure services.

40–60 questions · 120 minutes · pass 700/1000Pass mark: 700 / 1000385 practice questions

Sample questionMediumQ01 · 1 mark

Contoso Ltd is a global financial institution with 80 Azure subscriptions spread across 4 management groups. They currently use a decentralized logging approach where each application team deploys their own Log Analytics workspace.

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) requires a new logging architecture that meets the following requirements:

Security and audit logs must be retained centrally for 2 years to meet compliance.
Application teams must still be able to query their own application performance logs without having access to other teams' data.
The solution must minimize administrative overhead and data duplication.
Costs must be optimized.

Which Log Analytics workspace architecture should you recommend?

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Exam topics

Identity, Governance & Monitoring

25–30%

Azure AD, Conditional Access, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy at scale, and compliance management patterns.

Data Storage Solutions

25–30%

Choosing between relational, non-relational, and analytical storage. Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage tiers, and data lake design.

Business Continuity

10–15%

Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, high availability patterns, and disaster recovery RTO/RPO design.

Infrastructure Solutions

25–30%

Virtual machines, Kubernetes (AKS), App Service, API Management, virtual networking, and hybrid connectivity.

Practice exams

Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 1

Expert-level practice exam for the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) certification. Tests advanced architectural knowledge, enterprise solution design, and trade-off analysis across identity, governance, data storage, business continuity, and infrastructure.

55qMixed

Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 2

Expert-level practice exam for the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) certification. This exam tests advanced architectural knowledge, enterprise solution design, and trade-off analysis across compute, network, storage, and security domains.

55qMixed

Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 3

55qMixed

Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 4

55qMixed

Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 5

Expert-level practice exam for Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305). Covers identity, governance, data storage, business continuity, and infrastructure design at an enterprise scale.

55qMixed

Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 6

Expert-level practice exam for Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305). Covers identity, governance, data storage, business continuity, and infrastructure design at an enterprise scale.

55qMixed

Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 7

Expert-level practice exam for AZ-305, focusing on enterprise architecture, multi-region deployments, and advanced Azure service integration.

55qMixed

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