ExpertAzure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Exam 7
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Expert-level practice exam for AZ-305, focusing on enterprise architecture, multi-region deployments, and advanced Azure service integration.
55
Questions
Mixed
Difficulty
70%
Pass mark
Difficulty breakdown
Easy(6)
Medium(27)
Hard(22)
Topics covered
Browse all topics →Domain 1.1: Logging and MonitoringDomain 1.2: Authentication and AuthorizationDomain 1.3: GovernanceDomain 1.4: Application IdentitiesDomain 2.1: Relational DataDomain 2.2: Data IntegrationDomain 2.3: Storage RecommendationDomain 2.4: Non-Relational DataDomain 3.1: Backup and DRDomain 3.2: High AvailabilityDomain 4.1: Compute SolutionsDomain 4.2: Application ArchitectureDomain 4.3: MigrationsDomain 4.4: Network Solutions
Sample questions
Q01Hard1 mark
CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
QUESTION: You need to design the global routing architecture for Contoso's web applications to ensure high availability and WAF protection. Which service should you recommend?
Q02Medium1 mark
CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
QUESTION: Contoso has 20 subscriptions. You need to enforce ISO 27001 compliance across all subscriptions automatically. What should you use?
Q03Hard1 mark
CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
QUESTION: You are designing the database architecture using Azure SQL Database. Which TWO features/tiers should you combine to meet the RPO and RTO requirements? (Select TWO)
Q04Medium1 mark
CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
QUESTION: Some legacy Windows Server 2012 machines will remain on-premises. You need to back up their files and folders directly to Azure. What should you use?
Q05Hard1 mark
CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
QUESTION: You are planning the migration of the 500 servers, including web apps and databases. Which THREE tools should you include in your migration strategy? (Select THREE)
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Free to browse · no sign-up requiredQ01CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
...HardQ02CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
...MediumQ03CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
...HardQ04CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
...MediumQ05CASE STUDY: Contoso migrating 500 servers to Azure. RTO 2h, RPO 15m, GDPR compliance, 10Gbps ExpressRoute required.
...HardQ06An enterprise requires strict data isolation for logs between 5 departments. However, the central security team needs...MediumQ07You need to monitor 1,000 on-premises Linux VMs using Azure Monitor. The solution must support custom Data Collection...HardQ08You need to implement a cost management strategy for an Enterprise Agreement (EA) with 50 subscriptions. You must ens...MediumQ09A Managed Service Provider (MSP) uses Azure Sentinel to monitor 10 different customer tenants. They need to view inci...MediumQ10You are designing an identity solution for external partners. Partners must use their own credentials. Before accessi...HardQ11You need to secure administrative access to Azure subscriptions. Admins should only have Owner rights when actively p...MediumQ12Your company wants to eliminate passwords for employee authentication to Microsoft Entra ID. Which of the following i...EasyQ13An enterprise requires hybrid identity. Security policy dictates that no password hashes can be synchronized to the c...HardQ14You need to automatically block user logins if their credentials are found on the dark web. Which service provides th...MediumQ15You need to ensure that a critical production Resource Group cannot be accidentally deleted by any administrator, eve...EasyQ16You need to enforce a tagging strategy. If a user creates a resource without a 'CostCenter' tag, the system should au...MediumQ17You are designing a Management Group hierarchy for a global enterprise. What is the Microsoft-recommended primary dri...HardQ18An application running on an Azure VM needs to retrieve secrets from Azure Key Vault. You want to avoid storing crede...MediumQ19You are designing an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. Pods need to securely access database connection strings...MediumQ20You are migrating an on-premises SQL Server database to Azure. The application relies heavily on SQL Server Agent job...HardQ21You are designing a highly available Azure Database for PostgreSQL solution. It must survive a zone failure with zero...MediumQ22An enterprise needs to migrate a 80 TB relational database to Azure. The database requires rapid scaling of compute a...HardQ23You are designing a data integration solution. You need to orchestrate ETL pipelines and perform data transformations...MediumQ24You are designing an IoT solution that ingests 1 million telemetry messages per second. You need to perform real-time...HardQ25You are building a Data Lake architecture. You need to support ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and uni...MediumQ26A healthcare company must store patient records for 7 years to meet compliance. The data is rarely accessed after 30 ...EasyQ27You are migrating an SAP HANA workload to Azure. The database requires a shared file system with sub-millisecond late...MediumQ28You are designing a globally distributed application using Azure Cosmos DB. Users in the US, Europe, and Asia must ex...HardQ29You need to provision an Azure Storage account. The data must be highly available within the primary region across mu...MediumQ30You are designing a recommendation engine that needs to traverse complex relationships between users, products, and r...MediumQ31You are designing an analytics solution for a fleet of delivery trucks. You need to ingest GPS coordinates every seco...HardQ32You are building a search solution for a legal firm. You need to index millions of scanned PDF documents stored in Bl...MediumQ33You need to store 500 GB of key-value data. The data is only accessed within a single Azure region. Cost optimization...EasyQ34You are designing a backup strategy for Azure VMs. You must ensure that if the primary Azure region goes down, you ca...HardQ35You need to protect Azure Backup data against ransomware and rogue administrators. Which TWO features should you impl...MediumQ36You are planning to use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to replicate 200 on-premises VMware VMs to Azure. You need to estim...HardQ37You are deploying a 3-tier application on Azure VMs. You need to ensure a 99.99% SLA for the VMs. The architecture mu...MediumQ38You are designing a global e-commerce website hosted on Azure App Service across 3 regions. You need to route user tr...HardQ39You need to ensure an Azure Storage account remains available if a single datacenter in an Azure region fails. You do...EasyQ40You are designing the network architecture for an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. Security requires that ever...HardQ41You are deploying a web app to Azure App Service. You need to ensure the app scales out automatically based on CPU us...MediumQ42You are designing a serverless architecture using Azure Functions. The function must integrate with an Azure Virtual ...HardQ43You are designing an Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) solution. Users will connect to a pooled host pool. You need to ensu...MediumQ44You need to run a massive batch processing job that takes 4 hours. The job can be interrupted and resumed without dat...EasyQ45You are designing a microservices architecture. You need a container orchestration platform, a Layer 7 ingress contro...HardQ46You are designing an event-driven architecture. When a file is uploaded to Blob Storage, a serverless function must b...MediumQ47You are using Azure API Management (APIM) to expose backend APIs. You need to prevent abuse by limiting a specific cl...MediumQ48You are designing a caching strategy for a web application. You need to store ASP.NET session state and provide a pub...MediumQ49You are planning a migration of 300 VMware VMs to Azure. You need to perform dependency mapping to group VMs into mig...HardQ50You need to migrate 100 TB of historical video files to Azure Blob Storage. The on-premises internet connection is on...MediumQ51You are migrating a mission-critical on-premises SQL Server database to Azure SQL Managed Instance. The migration mus...HardQ52You are designing a hub-and-spoke network topology. You need to ensure that all outbound internet traffic from the sp...HardQ53An enterprise needs to connect their on-premises datacenter to Azure. Requirements: 10 Gbps dedicated bandwidth, no t...MediumQ54You need to access an Azure Storage account from an on-premises network over an ExpressRoute private peering connecti...HardQ55A global company has 100 branch offices. They need a managed networking service that provides any-to-any connectivity...Medium