Free Microsoft AZ-305 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

  • Exam Code/Number: AZ-305
  • Exam Name/Title: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • Certification Provider: Microsoft
  • Corresponding Certification: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Exam Questions: 475
  • Updated On: Jul 09, 2026
Case Study 2 - Fabrikam, Inc
Overview
Fabrikam, Inc. is an engineering company that has offices throughout Europe. The company has a main office in London and three branch offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Rome.
Existing Environment: Active Directory Environment
The network contains two Active Directory forests named corp.fabrikam.com and rd.fabrikam.com. There are no trust relationships between the forests.
Corp.fabrikam.com is a production forest that contains identities used for internal user and computer authentication.
Rd.fabrikam.com is used by the research and development (R&D) department only. The R&D department is restricted to using on-premises resources only.
Existing Environment: Network Infrastructure
Each office contains at least one domain controller from the corp.fabrikam.com domain. The main office contains all the domain controllers for the rd.fabrikam.com forest.
All the offices have a high-speed connection to the internet.
An existing application named WebApp1 is hosted in the data center of the London office.
WebApp1 is used by customers to place and track orders. WebApp1 has a web tier that uses Microsoft Internet information Services (IIS) and a database tier that runs Microsoft SQL Server
2016. The web tier and the database tier are deployed to virtual machines that run on Hyper-V.
The IT department currently uses a separate Hyper-V environment to test updates to WebApp1.
Fabrikam purchases all Microsoft licenses through a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement that includes Software Assurance.
Existing Environment: Problem Statements
The use of WebApp1 is unpredictable. At peak times, users often report delays. At other times, many resources for WebApp1 are underutilized.
Requirements: Planned Changes
Fabrikam plans to move most of its production workloads to Azure during the next few years, including virtual machines that rely on Active Directory for authentication.
As one of its first projects, the company plans to establish a hybrid identity model, facilitating an upcoming Microsoft 365 deployment.
All R&D operations will remain on-premises.
Fabrikam plans to migrate the production and test instances of WebApp1 to Azure.
Requirements: Technical Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following technical requirements:
* Website content must be easily updated from a single point.
* User input must be minimized when provisioning new web app instances.
* Whenever possible, existing on-premises licenses must be used to reduce cost.
* Users must always authenticate by using their corp.fabrikam.com UPN identity.
* Any new deployments to Azure must be redundant in case an Azure region fails.
* Whenever possible, solutions must be deployed to Azure by using the Standard pricing tier of Azure App Service.
* An email distribution group named IT Support must be notified of any issues relating to the directory synchronization services.
* In the event that a link fails between Azure and the on-premises network, ensure that the virtual machines hosted in Azure can authenticate to Active Directory.
* Directory synchronization between Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and corp.fabrikam.com must not be affected by a link failure between Azure and the on-premises network.
Requirements: Database Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following database requirements:
* Database metrics for the production instance of WebApp1 must be available for analysis so that database administrators can optimize the performance settings.
* To avoid disrupting customer access, database downtime must be minimized when databases are migrated.
* Database backups must be retained for a minimum of seven years to meet compliance requirements.
Requirements: Security Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:
* Company information including policies, templates, and data must be inaccessible to anyone outside the company.
* Users on the on-premises network must be able to authenticate to corp.fabrikam.com if an internet link fails.
* Administrators must be able authenticate to the Azure portal by using their corp.fabrikam.com credentials.
* All administrative access to the Azure portal must be secured by using multi-factor authentication (MFA).
* The testing of WebApp1 updates must not be visible to anyone outside the company.
You need to recommend a strategy for migrating the database content of WebApp1 to Azure.
What should you include in the recommendation?
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You plan provision to a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster in Azure that will use a third- party scheduler.
You need to recommend a solution to provision and manage the HPC cluster node.
What should you include in the recommendation?
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Hotspot Question
You have an on-premises app named App1 that uses the Hyper-V virtual machines shown in the following table.

You plan to migrate App1 to Azure.
You need to recommend which services to use for the migrations. The solution must meet the following requirements:
- share1 must be migrated to a premium Azure Files share.
- SQL1 must be migrated to an Azure SQL managed instance.
- The migrations must be completed with minimal downtime and zero data
loss.
- VM1 must be migrated to an Azure virtual machine. A sizing assessment must be completed before the migration.
What should you recommend for each virtual machine? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:
You have an Azure subscription.
You need to deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) solution that will use Windows Server 2019 nodes.
The solution must meet the following requirements:
- Minimize the time it takes to provision compute resources during scale-out operations.
- Support autoscaling of Windows Server containers.
Which scaling option should you recommend?
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Hotspot Question
You are planning an Azure Storage solution for sensitive data. The data will be accessed daily.
The data set is less than 10 GB.
You need to recommend a storage solution that meets the following requirements:
- All the data written to storage must be retained for five years.
- Once the data is written, the data can only be read. Modifications
and deletion must be prevented.
- After five years, the data can be deleted, but never modified.
- Data access charges must be minimized
What should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:

Explanation:
Box 1: General purpose v2 with Hot access tier for blobs
Immutable storage for Azure Blob Storage enables users to store business-critical data in a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) state. While in a WORM state, data cannot be modified or deleted for a user-specified interval. By configuring immutability policies for blob data, you can protect your data from overwrites and deletes. Immutability policies include time-based retention policies and legal holds.
Box 2: Container access policy
Container access policy to configure a time-based retention policy for immutable storage.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/immutable-policy-configure-container-scope?tabs=azure-portal
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/immutable-storage-overview
A company has created a Logic App and named it domain-logicapp. The application is configured to provide a response when HTTP POST or HTTP GET request is received. The application should have the capability to receive up to 200,000 requests in a 5-minute period during peak loads.
Which of the following should you configure to ensure that the application can handle the expected load?
Correct Answer: C Vote an answer
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You have an on-premises network and an Azure subscription. The on-premises network has several branch offices.
A branch office in Toronto contains a virtual machine named VM1 that is configured as a file server. Users access the shared files on VM1 from all the offices.
You need to recommend a solution to ensure that the users can access the shared files as quickly as possible if the Toronto branch office is inaccessible.
What should you include in the recommendation?
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Case Study 1 - Litware
Existing Environment
Azure Environment
Litware has 10 Azure subscriptions that are linked to the Litware.com tenant and five Azure subscriptions that are linked to the dev.litware.com tenant. All the subscriptions are in an Enterprise Agreement (EA).
The litware.com tenant contains a custom Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) role named Role1 that grants the DataActions read permission to the blobs and files in Azure Storage.
On-Premises Environment
The on-premises network of Litware contains the resources shown in the following table.

Network Environment
Litware has ExpressRoute connectivity to Azure.
Planned Changes and Requirements
Litware plans to implement the following changes:
* Migrate DB1 and DB2 to Azure.
* Migrate App1 to Azure virtual machines.
* Migrate the external storage used by App1 to Azure Storage.
* Deploy the Azure virtual machines that will host App1 to Azure dedicated hosts.
Authentication and Authorization Requirements
Litware identifies the following authentication and authorization requirements:
* Only users that manage the production environment by using the Azure portal must connect from a hybrid Azure AD-joined device and authenticate by using Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
* The Network Contributor built-in RBAC role must be used to grant permissions to the network administrators for all the virtual networks in all the Azure subscriptions.
* To access the resources in Azure, App1 must use the managed identity of the virtual machines that will host the app.
* RBAC roles must be applied at the highest level possible.
Resiliency Requirements
Litware identifies the following resiliency requirements:
* Once migrated to Azure, DB1 and DB2 must meet the following requirements:
- Maintain availability if two availability zones in the local Azure region fail.
- Fail over automatically.
- Minimize I/O latency.
* App1 must meet the following requirements:
- Be hosted in an Azure region that supports availability zones.
- Be hosted on Azure virtual machines that support automatic scaling.
- Maintain availability if two availability zones in the local Azure region fail.
Security and Compliance Requirements
Litware identifies the following security and compliance requirements:
* Once App1 is migrated to Azure, you must ensure that new data can be written to the app, and the modification of new and existing data is prevented for a period of three years.
* On-premises users and services must be able to access the Azure Storage account that will host the data in App1.
* Access to the public endpoint of the Azure Storage account that will host the App1 data must be prevented.
* All Azure SQL databases in the production environment must have Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled.
* App1 must NOT share physical hardware with other workloads.
Business Requirements
Litware identifies the following business requirements:
* Minimize administrative effort.
* Minimize costs.
You migrate App1 to Azure.
You need to ensure that the data storage for App1 meets the security and compliance requirement.
What should you do?
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