Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
Microsoft
AZ-305
200 questions
4 topics
Updated May 2026Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
56 questions16 easy28 medium12 hard~28% of exam
Which Azure Monitor capability is specifically the application performance monitoring feature for distributed applicatio...Which Azure service stores secrets, keys, and certificates for centralized secure access?A company wants to authorize an operations team to manage only one application resource group and nothing else. Which Az...
Design data storage solutions
46 questions13 easy22 medium11 hard~23% of exam
A company wants protection against accidental blob deletion and overwrites for up to several months. Which statement abo...A database workload needs broad SQL Server compatibility features such as SQL Agent, linked servers, and cross-database ...A data engineering team needs a managed cloud service for data integration, ETL, ELT, and orchestration using pipelines ...
Design business continuity solutions
33 questions8 easy16 medium9 hard~17% of exam
A disaster recovery plan needs different actions for scheduled datacenter maintenance versus an unexpected regional outa...A company wants backup protection for Azure VMs, SQL Server in Azure VMs, Azure Files, and certain PaaS data sources usi...A design for SQL Managed Instance disaster recovery is comparing failover groups to geo-restore. If the primary concern ...
Design infrastructure solutions
65 questions15 easy34 medium16 hard~32% of exam
An architect needs a managed PaaS platform for hosting web apps and APIs with built-in authentication, custom domains, c...Which Azure service is Microsoft’s managed Kubernetes platform in which Azure manages the control plane?A design decision is between service endpoints and Private Link for a storage account that must minimize data exfiltrati...
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An architect needs a managed PaaS platform for hosting web apps and APIs with built-in authenticatio... | Design infrastructure solutions | medium |
| 2 | Which Azure Monitor capability is specifically the application performance monitoring feature for di... | Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions | easy |
| 3 | A company wants protection against accidental blob deletion and overwrites for up to several months.... | Design data storage solutions | medium |
| 4 | Which Azure service stores secrets, keys, and certificates for centralized secure access? | Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions | easy |
| 5 | Which Azure service is Microsoft’s managed Kubernetes platform in which Azure manages the control pl... | Design infrastructure solutions | easy |
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