Exam format

AZ-305

What the Azure Solutions Architect exam looks like

AZ-305 has 40 to 60 questions in 120 minutes, multiple choice, drag-and-drop, hot area, and case studies. Every figure on this page is read from the official exam page and linked to it.

How many questions, and how long

Microsoft Azure states 40 to 60 questions for AZ-305, with a time limit of 120 minutes. That is about 3 minutes a question, including the time it takes to read the stem and the options.

Microsoft Azure publishes a range rather than a fixed count, so the pace above assumes the low end of it. At the top of the range you have less time a question.

What the questions look like

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.

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What passes

The passing score for AZ-305 is 700 on a scale of 1 to 1000.

What that score means, and how it is calculated

If you do not pass

What this means for practice

Our Azure Solutions Architect practice exams are assembled to the published domain weightings and sat against a 120-minute clock, in exam conditions or in study mode. Every answer shows the official page it was checked against.

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