AZ-305

This section focuses on the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect AZ-305 Exam

The Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification replaced the Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies AZ-303 on November 16, 2021. The AZ-305 focuses on designing and implementing solutions that run on Microsoft Azure. Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise in designing and implementing solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including aspects like compute, network, storage, monitoring and security. Candidates should have intermediate-level skills for administering Azure. Candidates should understand Azure development and DevOps processes. An Azure Solution Architect partners with developers, administrators, security engineers, and data engineers to implement solutions.

Here is a link to the the Microsoft Documentation for AZ-305

They should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including:: • Networking; • Virtualization; • Identity; • Security; • Business Continuity; • Disaster Recovery; • Data Platform; • Governance

The responsibilities that Microsoft outlines for this role are:: • Advising stakeholders; • Translating business requirements into secure scalable, reliable cloud solutions; • Partner with cloud administrators, cloud DBAs, and clients; • Storage; • Compute; • Virtual Networking; • Provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as needed

Skills Measured

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NOTE: The bullets that follow each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how they are assessing that skill. The list is not definitive or exhaustive. NOTE: Most questions cover features that are General Availability (GA). The exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.

Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25 - 30%)

Design solutions for logging and monitoring: • Recommend a logging solution; • Recommend a solution for routing logs; • Recommend a monitoring solution

Design authentication and authorization solutions: • Recommend an authentication solution; • Recommend an identity management solution; • Recommend a solution for authorizing access to Azure resources; • Recommend a solution to manage secrets, certificates, and keys

Design governance: • Recommend a structure for management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, and a strategy for resource tagging; • Recommend a solution for managing compliance; • Recommend a solution for identity governance

Design data storage solutions (20 - 25%)

Design data storage solutions for relational data: • Recommend a solution for storing relational data; • Recommend a database service tier and compute tier; • Recommend a solution for database scalability; • Recommend a solution for data protection

Design data storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data: • Recommend a solution for storing semi-structured data; • Recommend a solution for storing unstructured data; • Recommend a data storage solution to balance features, performance, and costs; • Recommend a data solution for protection and durability

Design data integration: • Recommend a solution for data integration; • Recommend a solution for data analysis

Design business continuity solutions (15 - 20%)

Design solutions for backup and disaster recovery: • Recommend a recovery solution for Azure and hybrid workloads that meets recovery objectives; • 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

Design for high availability: • Recommend a high availability solution for compute; • Recommend a high availability solution for relational data; • Recommend a high availability solution for semi-structured and unstructured data

Design infrastructure solutions (30-35%)

Design compute solutions: • Specify components of a compute solution based on workload requirements; • Recommend a virtual machine-based solution; • Recommend a container-based solution; • Recommend a serverless-based solution; • Recommend a compute solution for batch processing

Design an application architecture: • Recommend a messaging architecture; • Recommend an event-driven architecture; • Recommend a solution for API integration; • Recommend a caching solution for applications; • Recommend an application configuration management solution; • Recommend an automated deployment solution for applications

Design migrations: • Evaluate a migration solution that leverages the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure; • Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration; • Recommend a solution for migrating workloads to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS); • Recommend a solution for migrating databases; • Recommend a solution for migrating unstructured data

Design network solutions: • Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet; • Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks; • Recommend a solution to optimize network performance; • Recommend a solution to optimize network security; • Recommend a load-balancing and routing solution