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Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert practice exams

Original questions written from the published objectives and cited to official documentation, never recalled exam content. How we verify, why not dumps.

Exam code
AZ-305
Cost
$165 USD
Questions
40 to 60
Duration
120 minutes
Passing score
700 (scale 1-1000)
Format
Multiple choice, drag-and-drop, hot area, and case studies

Fail and the retake is another $165. Practicing until you are ready is the cheapest part of this. Full cost breakdown.

What the exam tests

Exam domains and official weightings

From the official Microsoft Learn study guides. Put your study time where the weight is.

4domains
  • Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions28%
  • Design data storage solutions22%
  • Design business continuity solutions17%
  • Design infrastructure solutions33%

Coverage by domain

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  • Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions0 / 28% of exam
  • Design data storage solutions0 / 22% of exam
  • Design business continuity solutions0 / 17% of exam
  • Design infrastructure solutions0 / 33% of exam

Open now. Nothing is published for Azure Solutions Architect yet. The bank is being written from the official objectives.

Opens next. The first practice exam opens at 40 verified questions, spread across all 4 domains.

Every question here is verified against vendor documentation before it serves, which is why the count grows slowly.

What the exam actually asks you to do

Multiple choice and multiple response, plus drag-and-drop ordering, hot area items where you click a region of a screenshot, and case studies that hold one scenario across several linked questions.

  • Multiple choice
  • Multiple response
  • Drag and drop
  • Hot area
  • Case study

The highlighted formats are the ones you cannot answer from memory alone. Microsoft Learn, exam duration and question types

Azure Solutions Architect practice exams

No complete practice exam yet. A form is 40 questions apportioned to the official weightings, and a partial one would report a score that means nothing, so none is assembled until the questions are there.

Open now
Nothing is published for Azure Solutions Architect yet. The bank is being written from the official objectives.
Opens next
The first practice exam opens at 40 verified questions, spread across all 4 domains.

Where Azure Solutions Architect fits

An honest study plan

  1. 1. Read the official objectives first

    Download the official objectives from Microsoft Azure and skim every line. The exam can only test what’s listed there, it’s the contract.

  2. 2. Weight your study toward Design infrastructure solutions and Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions

    Together the top two domains are 61% of the exam. Practice them until your accuracy is consistently above 80%.

  3. 3. Drill weak domains, then sit a numbered practice exam

    Use Domain Drill on your weakest areas, then sit a full-length form under exam conditions: 40 questions in 120 minutes, scored against the published pass mark. Book the real exam when you are consistently clearing that, not before.

Official free resources

Study from the source. These are Microsoft Azure’s own materials:

Official Azure Solutions Architect exam page & objectives ↗

Keep reading

Every guide and cost breakdown, by vendor

Frequently asked questions

How does AZ-305 differ from AZ-104?

AZ-104 configures; AZ-305 recommends. Questions describe requirements and constraints and ask which design you would propose: which storage tier, which identity topology, which failover approach. You are marked as an architect, not an operator.

Does AZ-305 alone grant the Expert certification?

No. The Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification requires passing AZ-305 and holding the Azure Administrator Associate certification from AZ-104, so the two exams together earn the credential.

Note on domain weightings

Microsoft publishes weightings as ranges. The figures here use midpoints of the official ranges from the current AZ-305 study guide.

Ready to practice for AZ-305?

Nothing is published for this exam yet. Join the waitlist and we will tell you when the first questions ship, and nothing else.

Azure Solutions Architect is not for sale yet. A certification goes on sale when it has a complete practice exam behind it, and this one does not, so there is nothing here worth charging for. Everything published is free to answer in the meantime.