AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

As a Microsoft Azure solutions architect, you have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure, including:

• Compute

• Network

• Storage

• Monitoring

• Security

Your responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for Azure solutions that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. In this role, you implement solutions on Azure by partnering with various other job roles, including:

• Developers

• Administrators

• Security engineers

• Data engineers

As a candidate for this exam, you should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. You should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, you should have experience with:

• Azure administration

• Azure development

• DevOps processes

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions; design data storage solutions; design business continuity solutions; and design infrastructure solutions.

Skills measured

• Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%)

• Design data storage solutions (20–25%)

• Design business continuity solutions (15–20%)

• Design infrastructure solutions (30–35%)

Design data storage solutions including non-relational storage, relational storage, and data integration.

Prerequisites

• Conceptual knowledge of storage accounts, blobs, files, disks, data protection, and databases.

• Working experience with creating and securing storage systems, designing database solutions, and integrating data solutions.