Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions — Information & Free Practice
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Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
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- Pearson VUE for ordinary individual scheduling; academic provider options depend on the official scheduling flow.
- Format
- Proctored technical examination with answer-scored questions; Microsoft does not disclose the exact AZ-305 question-type mix. Any lab delivery variation remains part of the same examination.
- Passing score
- 700 on Microsoft's 1–1,000 technical-exam scale; this is not necessarily 70% correct.
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- Price depends on the country or region in which the examination is proctored; no fixed US amount is asserted.
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The authority publishes percentage ranges for each content area. The practice percentages below use the midpoint of each range, normalized to 100%; they are not exact percentages published by the authority. Practice question counts may differ slightly because of rounding.
Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions — Official range: 25–30% (Practice allocation: 27.5%)
- Design solutions for logging and monitoring
- Design authentication and authorization solutions
- Design governance
Design data storage solutions — Official range: 20–25% (Practice allocation: 22.5%)
- Design data storage solutions for relational data
- Design data storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data
- Design data integration
Design business continuity solutions — Official range: 15–20% (Practice allocation: 17.5%)
- Design solutions for backup and disaster recovery
- Design for high availability
Design infrastructure solutions — Official range: 30–35% (Practice allocation: 32.5%)
- Design compute solutions
- Design an application architecture
- Design migrations
- Design network solutions
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Skills at a glance: identity, governance and monitoring
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Skills at a glance: data storage
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Skills at a glance: infrastructure
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