Exam AZ-305:
Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including computing, network, storage, monitoring, and security.
Responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for secure, scalable, and reliable Azure solutions.
Skills measured as of May 5, 2023
- The English language version of this exam was updated on October 28, 2022. Review the study guide linked in the preceding “Tip” box for details about the skills measured and the latest changes.
- Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25-30%)
- Design data storage solutions (25-30%)
- Design business continuity solutions (10-15%)
- Design infrastructure solutions (25-30%)
Pre-requisite
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Design a solution for logging and monitoring
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Design authentication and authorization solutions
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Design governance
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Design identities and access for applications
- Recommend solutions to allow applications to access Azure resources
- Recommend a solution that securely stores passwords and secrets
- Recommend a solution for integrating applications into Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra
- Recommend a user consent solution for applications
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Design a data storage solution for relational data
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Design data integration
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Recommend a data storage solution
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Design a data storage solution for non-relational data
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Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery
- Recommend a recovery solution for Azure, hybrid, and on-premises workloads that meets recovery objectives (Recovery Time Objective [RTO], Recovery Level Objective [RLO], Recovery Point Objective [RPO])
- Understand the recovery solutions for containers
- Recommend a backup and recovery solution for compute
- Recommend a backup and recovery solution for databases
- Recommend a backup and recovery solution for unstructured data
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Design for high availability
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Design a compute solution
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Design an application architecture
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Design migrations
- Evaluate a migration solution that leverages the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Assess and interpret on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
- Recommend a solution for migrating applications and virtual machines
- Recommend a solution for migrating databases
- Recommend a solution for migrating unstructured data
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Design network solutions
- Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
- Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet
- Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks
- Optimize network performance for applications
- Recommend a solution to optimize network security
- Recommend a load balancing and routing solution
