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Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft certification for designing Azure cloud and hybrid solutions, requiring AZ-305 and the Azure Administrator Associate certification.

Licensing authority: Microsoft

Initial by examination
Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
Candidate Experience
Advanced IT operations knowledge and experience with Azure administration, Azure development and DevOps processes are stated as candidate recommendations, not an additional named required examination.
Prerequisite Certification
To become a Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, you must earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification.
Scheduling
Rolling appointment scheduling through the official exam page; Pearson VUE permits at most two concurrently scheduled Microsoft Certification examinations and booking no more than 90 days ahead. Learn Profile legal name must match legal ID.
Scope Boundary
The separately required Associate certification is preserved as a credential prerequisite; its underlying examination is excluded by TASK and is not re-investigated or produced.

Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Provider
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.
Exam fee
Price depends on the country or region in which the examination is proctored; no fixed US amount is asserted.
Examination outline

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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