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The bank has 461 questions across all four formats: single answer, multi-select, drag-and-drop, hotspot. Case studies are included too: one shared scenario with several questions about it, and the scenario stays on screen while you answer.

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AZ-305 Practice Exams & Study Guide

461 original practice questions across all four AZ-305 domains, built against the 17 April 2026 objectives — every answer explained and backed by official Microsoft documentation. No dumps, no recycled braindumps: the link to that documentation sits under every answer, so you can check any of it yourself.

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Everything in this pack

461 original questions, written from official Microsoft documentation
All four question formats — single answer, multi-select, drag-and-drop, hotspot
4 practice modes — Exam, Review, Domain practice, Case Studies
A weak-area report after every session, scored by official domain
The designed AZ-305 Study Guide and Quick Recap card deck (PDF, in the bundle)
Every answer linked to the exact official page behind it
16 free to try right now — no card needed
12 months of access, including every content update we publish in that time
Runs in your browser — nothing to install, no player to configure

Coverage follows the official AZ-305 blueprint

Official domain	Exam weight	Our questions
Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions	25–30%	124
Design data storage solutions	20–25%	103
Design business continuity solutions	15–20%	81
Design infrastructure solutions	30–35%	153

Weights from Microsoft's current Skills Measured outline for AZ-305, dated 17 April 2026. Question counts follow the blueprint — never padded to hit a number.

What most AZ-305 practice sets skip

The parts that are hard to write, not just hard to answer

Certification at this level isn't single-fact recall. The objectives describe decisions that cross domains, and scenario work that takes a whole estate into account. We wrote questions for both — grounded in official documentation, like everything else here.

case studies

Read one shared scenario, then answer a set of questions about it. The scenario stays on screen, re-readable, the whole way through — so what's being tested is your judgment, not your memory of a paragraph.

The case studies in this pack

Case 1Meridian Freight — the datacentre lease that ends in nine months5 q · D1, D2, D3, D4
Case 2Aldervane Software — one product, two continents5 q · D1, D2, D3, D4
Case 3Kestrel Health Group — two tenants after an acquisition6 q · D1, D3
Case 4Northgate Utilities — meter readings, arriving forever5 q · D1, D2, D4
FreeHalbrook Studios — where the finished artwork lives (free sample)3 q · try it now

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What you'll be able to do

Work through every domain of the AZ-305 blueprint, in the official weighting
Find your weak domains before the exam does — every session scores you by domain and unit
Handle all four question formats under time, including drag-and-drop and hotspot
Explain why an answer is right, not just which one it is — and check it against the official page

Judge the quality yourself

Sample question 1

An operations team runs several hundred Windows and Linux virtual machines, plus hybrid servers in two datacentres. They want one definition that states which performance counters and Syslog facilities to gather, applies to every machine, and can be changed centrally without touching each host. What should you recommend?

a.A separate agent configuration applied per virtual machine so each host can be tuned individually
b.A Log Analytics workspace per datacentre, relying on workspace membership to decide what is gathered
c.Data Collection Rules assigned to the machines through data collection rule associations✓ correct
d.An Azure Policy definition that writes performance thresholds directly onto each machine

Why C: (C) is the mechanism Azure Monitor provides for exactly this. One rule holds the whole collection decision — the records to gather, the filtering and transformation applied to them, and the destination they go to. Rules are authored centrally and attached to machines through associations, so editing the rule changes collection everywhere it is associated. (A) is the problem the design is trying to remove, not a solution to it. (B) confuses a storage and administrative boundary with a collection definition — a workspace is where data lands, not a statement of what to gather. (D) misplaces Azure Policy: policy is genuinely useful here, but for enforcing that the rule is associated at scale, not for carrying the collection settings themselves.

Sample question 2

An application writes its own diagnostic records to JSON files on each server's local disk. The monitoring design must bring those records into Azure Monitor Logs and query them alongside platform data, without rewriting the application. What should you recommend?

a.Platform metrics, since the values inside the JSON files are numeric
b.IIS log collection, because the application is served by a web front end
c.Windows event collection, after configuring the application to write to the event log
d.Custom log collection through the Azure Monitor Agent, with the table schema defined in the Data Collection Rule✓ correct

Why D: (D) is the collection type built for application-written text and JSON files on local disk. The agent gathers them and the Data Collection Rule defines the custom table schema they land in, so the records become queryable next to everything else with no application change. (A) misreads the requirement: platform metrics are emitted by Azure resources themselves, not read out of files an application writes. (B) collects Internet Information Services logs from Windows machines — real, but a different source than the application's own JSON files. (C) would work only by changing the application to write elsewhere, which the requirement rules out.

Every explanation names why the right answer is right and what each wrong option actually refers to — that's the standard across all 461 questions. Try 16 of them free →

Look inside the AZ-305 Study Guide

The real opening of Chapter 1 — how the whole guide teaches. The full guide continues like this, chapter by chapter, with original diagrams and verified questions woven in.

Chapter 1 · free excerpt

Requirements, constraints, and the trade-off

Every question on this exam asks you to recommend something. Not to define it, not to configure it — to choose it, for a named organisation with named limits. That is a different skill from knowing services, and it is the skill this guide is built to teach. This chapter gives you the words for it.

Read the exam's own outline and one thing stands out before any Azure service does: the verbs. All forty-nine of its skill statements begin with Recommend, Specify or Evaluate. Not describe. Not configure. Not deploy. An exam that wanted you to recall what Azure Files is would say so. This one asks which storage service a named company should use, given what that company has told you.

That changes what a right answer is. A solution architect is not finished when the application works. The design also has to hold up under load, survive failures, resist attack, and cost an amount the business agreed to. Microsoft frames the job as balancing what the business asked for against what the technology can actually do — and calls the finished architecture a balance of risk, cost and capability across the whole system.

Mental model

Think of a design the way you would think about buying a house. Every house on the market has a roof, walls and plumbing, so listing those features tells you nothing. What decides the purchase is the budget, the commute, the school catchment and how long you plan to stay. The features are all workable. Your constraints pick one. Exam questions are built the same way: several services would run the workload, and one stated limit rules out the rest.

Figure 1.1 — Five pillars, and the pull between them. Each pillar names something a design can be asked to be. Raising one usually lowers another: the arrows show the pairs that most often compete in this exam's questions. The design decision lives on the arrows, not on the pillars.

Worked example

A retailer runs a reporting service that is busy for four hours each night and idle the rest of the day. Three designs would all work. Reserved virtual machines are the cheapest per hour but are paid for around the clock, so the idle twenty hours are waste. A scaled-out service that adds instances at night and removes them by morning costs more per hour but only while running — better on Cost Optimization and Performance Efficiency, at the price of more moving parts to operate. A fully managed serverless option removes almost all of that operational load, and bills only for execution, but caps how long a single run may take. Now add one sentence to the scenario and the answer moves: "a nightly run occasionally takes six hours." That single fact eliminates the serverless option on a hard limit, and the other two survive on cost. Nothing about the services changed — the stated constraint did.

Excerpt ends here — the full chapter continues with the five workloads in depth, exam traps, and verified practice questions.

Quick Recap — two of the AZ-305 cards

A landscape card deck for last-mile review, ending in a Cram Sheet. One chapter card and one of the four Cram Sheet cards:

Chapter card

The exam asks you to choose, not to define

All forty-nine skill statements open with Recommend, Specify or Evaluate. So a right answer is not the strongest design. It is the design that survives the limits this organisation stated.

Cram sheet · 1 of 4

Dates the exam rewards you for knowing

1 May 2025: Azure AD B2C stopped accepting new customers — existing tenants continue (Ch 3)
May 2030: the earliest B2C support runs to (Ch 3)
1 April 2026: Azure Cache for Redis closed to new customers — name Azure Managed Redis (Ch 13)
1 October 2028: Azure Cache for Redis fully retired (Ch 13)
31 August 2024: update management left Azure Automation for Azure Update Manager (Ch 13)
2027: Automation State Configuration retires — Machine Configuration replaces it (Ch 13)

What the designed PDFs look like

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Practice Exams

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✓ Every answer explained and linked to the official Microsoft page behind it

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Study Guide + Quick Recap

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Who this is for

Anyone sitting AZ-305 for the first time and wanting the blueprint covered, not sampled
Retakers who need to find the gap that cost them, rather than re-reading everything
Architects who already hold an associate certification and are moving up to expert-level design decisions
Anyone who wants to check an answer against the official documentation instead of trusting it

Who it isn't for

Anyone looking for the live exam's actual questions. We don't have them, and nobody should be selling them to you — using them puts your certification at risk and teaches you nothing.
Anyone who wants to pass without understanding the material. Every answer here comes with the reasoning and the source, which is slower than memorising and the entire point.

Questions people ask before buying

Are these AZ-305 exam dumps?: No. Every question is original — built on the official exam blueprint and backed by free, public, official Microsoft documentation, with every answer linked to the exact official page behind it. We never use braindumps, leaked questions, or paywalled material. If you are looking for the live exam's actual questions, we do not have them, and we would not sell them.
How long do I have access?: 12 months from purchase, including all content updates during that time — certification content changes, so we keep it current rather than promising a hollow 'lifetime'. PDFs you download during that period stay yours to keep.
Can I try before buying?: Yes — 16 questions from this bank are free with a free account, in the same player you would use after purchase. Full sample questions with their explanations are also printed on this page.
What kinds of questions are included?: The bank has 461 questions across all four formats: single answer, multi-select, drag-and-drop, hotspot. Case studies are included too: one shared scenario with several questions about it, and the scenario stays on screen while you answer.
What happens when Microsoft updates the AZ-305 exam?: We re-check the bank against the new Skills Measured outline and update the questions that need it, then republish. Updates during your 12 months are included at no extra cost. We date our claim against Microsoft's published outline rather than simply saying the pack was "recently updated", so you can check the correspondence yourself.
Can I get a refund?: Yes, before you access what you bought. Because these are digital products delivered immediately, opening a paid question bank or downloading a purchased PDF ends the statutory 14-day withdrawal right — until you do, it is intact. We also refund genuine cases such as a technical failure we cannot fix. The full detail, including exactly what counts as access, is in our Refund Policy.

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