10 free, exam-style Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) (AZ-305) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free AZ-305 practice test to study every exam domain.
These 10 free AZ-305 questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A security team wants administrators to hold elevated Azure roles only when actively needed, for a limited time, and only after an approval step. The rest of the time those accounts should have standard permissions. Which solution should the architect recommend?
Correct answer: C - Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
An organization must guarantee that resources can only ever be deployed into two approved Azure regions to meet a data-residency requirement, regardless of which administrator performs the deployment. Which governance tool enforces this?
Correct answer: C - Azure Policy with an allowed-locations rule
An application stores backup archives that are almost never read but must be retained for seven years at the lowest possible storage cost. On the rare occasion data is needed, a retrieval delay of several hours is acceptable. Which Azure Blob Storage access tier is MOST appropriate?
Correct answer: D - Archive, offline with hours-long rehydration
An architect is migrating an on-premises SQL Server database that relies on SQL Server Agent jobs, cross-database queries, and linked servers. The business wants a managed PaaS service with the least possible application rework. Which target is BEST?
Correct answer: A - Azure SQL Managed Instance
A globally distributed application requires low-latency reads and writes in multiple regions simultaneously, with a tunable, well-defined consistency guarantee. Which Azure database service is purpose-built for this?
Correct answer: A - Azure Cosmos DB
A finance workload runs on virtual machines in a single Azure region. The business requires the solution to remain available even if an entire Azure datacenter within that region fails. Which deployment approach meets this requirement with the highest VM SLA?
Correct answer: A - Distribute the VMs across multiple availability zones
A workload of Azure virtual machines must fail over to a second Azure region during a regional outage, with a recovery point objective of about 15 minutes and orchestrated, testable failover plans. Which service should the architect recommend?
Correct answer: D - Azure Site Recovery replication and failover
A team is deploying a set of microservices as containers. They want automatic scale-to-zero when idle, event-driven scaling, and they explicitly do NOT want to manage a Kubernetes control plane or perform cluster upgrades. Which compute service should the architect recommend?
Correct answer: B - Azure Container Apps
A company needs to connect its on-premises datacenter to Azure with a private, high-bandwidth, low-latency connection that does NOT traverse the public internet and carries a connectivity SLA. Which option should the architect recommend?
Correct answer: D - Azure ExpressRoute private connectivity
A retail platform must ingest millions of telemetry events per second from IoT devices and make that stream available to multiple downstream analytics consumers in parallel. Which Azure service is designed for this high-throughput streaming ingestion?
Correct answer: B - Azure Event Hubs
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