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: Jun 29, 2026
Hotspot Question
You plan to deploy the backup policy shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:
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Your company plans to deploy various Azure App Service instances that will use Azure SQL databases. The App Service instances will be deployed at the same time as the Azure SQL databases.
The company has a regulatory requirement to deploy the App Service instances only to specific Azure regions. The resources for the App Service instances must reside in the same region.
You need to recommend a solution to meet the regulatory requirement.
Solution: You recommend using an Azure Policy initiative to enforce the location of resource groups.
Does this meet the goal?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
You have 100 servers that run Windows Server and host Microsoft SQL Server 2014 instances.
The instances host databases that have the following characteristics:
* Stored procedures are implemented by using CLR.
* The largest database is currently 3 TB. None of the databases will ever exceed 4 TB.
You plan to move all the data from SQL Server to Azure.
You need to recommend a service to host the databases. The solution must meet the following requirements:
* Whenever possible, minimize management overhead for the migrated databases.
* Ensure that users can authenticate by using Azure AD credentials.
* Minimize the number of database changes required to facilitate the migration.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Correct Answer: A Vote an answer
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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.
Hotspot Question
To meet the authentication requirements of Fabrikam, what should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:

Explanation:
Box 1: 1
Single tenant creation required only due to RD restrictions implemented.
Box 2: 1
Need to add custom domain due to default .onmicrosoft.com domain on tenant creation.
Box 3: 2
Two policies requires, can't have multiple actions to block + allow on single conditional access policies.
One required for admin MFA, second to block external access as per requirements.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/howto-conditional-access-policy-location
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/howto-conditional-access-policy-admin-mfa
Hotspot Question
You have an Azure subscription.
You plan to deploy five storage accounts that will store block blobs and five storage accounts that will host file shares. The file shares will be accessed by using the SMB protocol.
You need to recommend an access authorization solution for the storage accounts. The solution must meet the following requirements:
- Maximize security.
- Prevent the use of shared keys.
- Whenever possible, support time-limited access.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer:

Explanation:
1. For the blobs - a user delegation SAS only
To maximize security it's better to use a user delegation SAS:
From docs: As a security best practice, we recommend that you use Azure AD credentials when possible, rather than the account key, which can be more easily compromised. When your application design requires shared access signatures, use Azure AD credentials to create a user delegation SAS to help ensure better security.
This also prevents using shared keys & supports time-limited access. Note: user delegation SAS do not support stored access policies.
2. For the file shares - Azure AD credentials
It fulfills the requirement to maximize security (the most secure way recommended by Microsoft), but doesn't support time-limited access, which is optional and has lower priority than security.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/create-user-delegation-sas.
You have an on-premises storage solution.
You need to migrate the solution to Azure. The solution must support Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
What should you use?
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A company plans to host a web application using the Azure Web App service. The service must provide an auto-scale option for the web application based on demand with minimal costs.
You decide to allocate the Azure Web App to a Standard App Service Plan.
Would this solution fulfill the requirement?
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You have an Azure subscription that contains a storage account named storage1.
The storage1 account contains a container named container1.
You are planning the development of an app that will process and analyze vast amounts of user analytics data.
You need to recommend a solution to collect data from various sources and store the data in an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace. The solution must ensure that data processing and analysis is automated when a new data file is added to container1.
What should you include in the recommendation?
Correct Answer: B Vote an answer
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