Lavinia Spatariu | Feb 9th, 2022
Exam AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions is officially out of Beta!
If you already took the exam whilst in Beta, you will receive your score in the next 10 working days and regardless of the result, I admire you for the courage and grit needed to attempt a Beta exam!
If you’re planning to start studying for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, the best thing to do is to have a look at the Exam content (skills measured). It’s important to understand the different technologies involved in architecting an Azure environment as well as some of the specific topics which will be present in the exam itself.
Generally, expertise is needed in networking, security, storage, virtualization, disaster recovery, data, identity and governance. I have received a lot of feedback around the fact that there is a heavy focus on networking in this exam and so it may be a good idea to have a look at the learning path for the AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions in preparation for AZ-305.
There are several ways to gain the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification depending on whether you already passed AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate), AZ-300/301 (both retired) or AZ-303/304 (will retire on March 31st, 2022).
From the announcement
Exam Prep Strategy
- Start with the Microsoft Learn – Study Paths for AZ-305
- Design identity, governance and monitoring solutions (25-30%)
- Design business continuity solutions (10-15%)
- Design data storage solutions (25-30%)
- Design infrastructure solutions (25-30%)
- Build great solutions with the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Accelerate Cloud Adoption with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
2. Once the Microsoft Learn path has been completed, this AZ-305 Study Guide from Thomas Maurer can help fill in any knowledge gaps as he is providing the relevant Microsoft Docs pages for all the topics covered in the exam.
3. Probably needless to mention that John Savill is an absolute legend in the world of Microsoft certification training. This is the Study Cram he recorded for AZ-305 in Nov 2021.
4. Try these FREE practice questions to test your knowledge!
Question 1
You have an Azure subscription which has a Blob container with multiple blobs. Fifteen users in your company’s Accounting department plan to access the blobs during the month of March. You need to recommend a solution to enable access to the blobs during the month of March only. Which security solution should you include in the recommendation?
- A. Shared Access Signatures (SAS)
- B. Conditional Access policies
- C. Certificates
- D. Access Keys
Question 2
You are designing a large Azure environment that will contain many subscriptions. You plan to use Azure Policy as part of a governance solution. To which three scopes can you assign Azure Policy definitions? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
- A. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) administrative units
- B. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenants
- C. Subscriptions
- D. Compute resources
- E. Resource Groups
- F. Management groups
Question 3
You need to recommend a solution to generate a monthly report of all the new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) resource deployments in your Azure subscription. What should you include in the recommendation?
- A. Azure Activity Log
- B. Azure Advisor
- C. Azure Analysis Services
- D. Azure Monitor action groups
5. Ready?….Set?….Schedule the official AZ-305 exam with Pearson Vue here and good luck!!
