Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions – Skills Measured
NOTE: The bullets that follow each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how we are assessing that skill. This 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 a solution for logging and monitoring
- design a log routing solution
- recommend an appropriate level of logging
- recommend monitoring tools for a solution
Design authentication and authorization solutions
- recommend a solution for securing resources with role-based access control
- recommend an identity management solution
- recommend a solution for securing identities
Design governance
- recommend an organizational and hierarchical structure for Azure resources
- recommend a solution for enforcing and auditing compliance
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 Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- recommend a user consent solution for applications
Design Data Storage Solutions (25-30%)
Design a data storage solution for relational data
- recommend database service tier sizing
- recommend a solution for database scalability
- recommend a solution for encrypting data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use
Design data integration
- recommend a solution for data integration
- recommend a solution for data analysis
Recommend a data storage solution
- recommend a solution for storing relational data
- recommend a solution for storing semi-structured data
- recommend a solution for storing non-relational data
Design a data storage solution for non-relational data
- recommend access control solutions to data storage
- recommend a data storage solution to balance features, performance, and cost
- design a data solution for protection and durability
Design Business Continuity Solutions (10-15%)
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
Design for high availability
-identify the availability requirements of Azure resources
- recommend a high availability solution for compute
- recommend a high availability solution for non-relational data storage
- recommend a high availability solution for relational data storage
Design Infrastructure Solutions (25-30%)
Design a compute solution
- recommend a virtual machine-based compute solution
- recommend an appropriately sized compute solution based on workload requirements
- recommend a container-based compute solution
- recommend a serverless-based compute solution
Design an application architecture
- recommend a caching solution for applications
- recommend a messaging architecture
- recommend an event-driven architecture
- recommend an automated deployment solution for your applications
- recommend an application configuration management solution
- recommend a solution for API integration
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
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 solutio
