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    PracticeAzure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 6
    Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

    Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 6

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    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.

    55
    Questions
    Mixed
    Difficulty
    70%
    Pass mark

    Difficulty breakdown

    Easy(8)
    Medium(26)
    Hard(21)

    Topics covered

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    Domain 1.1: Logging and MonitoringDomain 1.2: Authentication and AuthorizationDomain 1.3: GovernanceDomain 1.4: Application IdentitiesDomain 2.1: Relational Data StorageDomain 2.2: Data IntegrationDomain 2.3: Recommend a data storage solutionDomain 2.4: Non-Relational Data StorageDomain 3.1: Backup and Disaster RecoveryDomain 3.2: High AvailabilityDomain 4.1: Compute SolutionsDomain 4.2: Application ArchitectureDomain 4.3: MigrationsDomain 4.4: Network Solutions

    Sample questions

    Q01Medium1 mark

    Contoso Ltd is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees. They operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure and Azure across 50 subscriptions. The company needs to improve security posture to meet ISO 27001 compliance. You need to design a centralized logging solution. The solution must support querying across all subscriptions, retain security logs for 2 years for compliance, support custom alerts, and minimize administrative overhead. Which architecture should you recommend?

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    Q02Hard1 mark

    A financial institution has 500 Windows Server VMs on-premises and 200 VMs in Azure. They need to implement a unified monitoring solution that provides VM insights, tracks missing updates, and monitors security events across both environments. The solution must use native Azure tools and minimize the deployment of custom agents. Which combination of services should you recommend?

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    Q03Hard1 mark

    An enterprise uses Azure Sentinel and Log Analytics. They ingest 500 GB of logs daily. The IT budget is constrained, and they need to optimize costs. Security logs must be searchable for 90 days, and compliance logs must be retained for 3 years but are rarely queried after 30 days. Which THREE actions should you recommend to optimize costs? (Select THREE)

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    Q04Easy1 mark

    You are designing a monitoring strategy for a new Azure deployment consisting of App Service, Azure SQL Database, and Key Vault. You need to ensure that all resource-level diagnostic logs are automatically collected and sent to a central Log Analytics workspace without manual intervention when new resources are created. What should you use?

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    Q05Medium1 mark

    A healthcare company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). They need to implement a security policy that requires Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) only when users access the Azure Portal from outside the corporate network or when Microsoft Entra ID Protection detects a medium or high sign-in risk. Which feature should you design?

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    Q01Contoso Ltd is a global manufacturing company with 50,000 employees. They operate a mix of on-premises infrastructure...MediumQ02A financial institution has 500 Windows Server VMs on-premises and 200 VMs in Azure. They need to implement a unified...HardQ03An enterprise uses Azure Sentinel and Log Analytics. They ingest 500 GB of logs daily. The IT budget is constrained, ...HardQ04You are designing a monitoring strategy for a new Azure deployment consisting of App Service, Azure SQL Database, and...EasyQ05A healthcare company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). They need to implement a security policy that requires Multi...MediumQ06Your organization collaborates with 50 external partner companies. You need to grant partner employees access to an i...HardQ07You are designing a privileged access strategy for Azure subscriptions. Administrators must not have standing access ...MediumQ08A company with strict security policies requires that user passwords must never be synchronized to the cloud, not eve...MediumQ09Your organization wants to eliminate passwords for all employees accessing Azure resources from their corporate Windo...EasyQ10An enterprise has 100 Azure subscriptions across 5 business units. You need to ensure that all storage accounts creat...MediumQ11Your company requires that all Azure resources be tagged with a 'CostCenter' tag. If a user attempts to create a reso...HardQ12You are designing an Azure Landing Zone for a highly regulated industry. You need to deploy a repeatable environment ...MediumQ13A critical production Azure SQL Database must be protected from accidental deletion by administrators. However, appli...EasyQ14You are designing an architecture where an Azure App Service web app needs to securely access an Azure SQL Database. ...MediumQ15An application running on an Azure Virtual Machine needs to access a third-party API using an API key. The API key mu...HardQ16A SaaS company hosts 500 separate Azure SQL Databases for its customers. The databases have unpredictable usage patte...MediumQ17You are migrating a legacy on-premises SQL Server application to Azure. The application relies heavily on SQL Server ...HardQ18You are designing a high-availability architecture for an Azure SQL Database. The application requires read-scale out...HardQ19You are designing an Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server solution. The application experiences heavy read t...EasyQ20A retail company needs to orchestrate data movement from 20 different on-premises SQL Server databases into Azure Dat...MediumQ21You are designing a data architecture using Azure Databricks. The business requires ACID transactions, scalable metad...HardQ22An IoT solution generates 1 million events per second from sensors worldwide. You need to ingest this telemetry data,...MediumQ23A media company stores 500 TB of video files in Azure Blob Storage. Files are accessed frequently for the first 30 da...MediumQ24You are migrating a high-performance computing (HPC) workload to Azure. The application requires a shared file system...HardQ25You are designing an Azure Cosmos DB database for an e-commerce application. The database will store product catalog ...HardQ26A web application hosted on Azure App Service experiences slow page load times due to frequent, repetitive database q...EasyQ27You are designing a fraud detection system that analyzes relationships between users, devices, IP addresses, and tran...MediumQ28A manufacturing company collects 50 TB of telemetry data daily from factory sensors. They need a data exploration ser...HardQ29You are designing a document search solution for a legal firm. They have millions of scanned PDF contracts stored in ...MediumQ30A developer needs to store simple key-value data. The data volume is small, and the application requires a highly cos...EasyQ31You are designing a backup strategy for 50 Azure Virtual Machines. The business requires that backups are stored in a...MediumQ32A company has a mission-critical application running on VMware on-premises. The application requires a Recovery Point...HardQ33You are designing a backup strategy for Azure SQL Databases. The business requires point-in-time restore capabilities...HardQ34A malicious actor gains access to your Azure environment and deletes several critical Azure VM backups from the Recov...EasyQ35You are designing an active-active multi-region architecture for a global web application. The application consists o...HardQ36You are deploying a cluster of 3 Virtual Machines in a single Azure region. You need to ensure that the VMs are prote...MediumQ37You are designing a load balancing solution for a multi-tier application. The web tier requires SSL termination, cook...MediumQ38You need to deploy a cluster of 100 Virtual Machines. The VMs will have different sizes and run different operating s...MediumQ39You are designing an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. The security team requires that every pod receives an IP...HardQ40You have an Azure App Service hosting a production web application. You need to deploy a new version of the applicati...MediumQ41You are designing a serverless architecture using Azure Functions. The function will process messages from an Azure S...MediumQ42You are designing an Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) solution for 1,000 users. Users will connect to pooled session hosts...EasyQ43You are designing a microservices architecture. Service A generates orders. Service B processes payments. Service C u...HardQ44You are exposing several backend REST APIs to external developers using Azure API Management. You need to protect the...MediumQ45You are designing an event-driven architecture. When a new file is uploaded to Azure Blob Storage, an Azure Function ...HardQ46A global media company hosts a video streaming website on Azure App Service. Users in Asia are experiencing high late...MediumQ47You are planning a large-scale migration of 500 VMware VMs to Azure. You need to discover the on-premises servers, ma...HardQ48You are migrating a 5 TB on-premises SQL Server database to Azure SQL Managed Instance. The application requires 24/7...MediumQ49A company wants to migrate a legacy ASP.NET web application to Azure. The application currently runs on Windows Serve...MediumQ50You are planning the migration waves for a complex enterprise environment. You have identified a 3-tier application: ...HardQ51CASE STUDY: Contoso Ltd is a global financial services firm with 10,000 employees. They have a primary on-premises da...HardQ52CASE STUDY: Contoso Ltd is a global financial services firm with 10,000 employees. They have a primary on-premises da...MediumQ53CASE STUDY: Contoso Ltd is a global financial services firm with 10,000 employees. They have a primary on-premises da...MediumQ54CASE STUDY: Contoso Ltd is a global financial services firm with 10,000 employees. They have a primary on-premises da...HardQ55CASE STUDY: Contoso Ltd is a global financial services firm with 10,000 employees. They have a primary on-premises da...Medium