Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect AZ-305 guide exam help

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert uses exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. Microsoft lists AZ-305 with no retirement date and updated English-language skills measured as of April 17, 2026. To earn the Expert certification, candidates must also earn Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate. Microsoft requires a score of 700 or greater to pass AZ-305. Candidates should have advanced experience with IT operations across networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, governance, Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes. The current outline covers Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25-30%), Design data storage solutions (20-25%), Design business continuity solutions (15-20%), and Design infrastructure solutions (30-35%). Preparation should include Azure Well-Architected Framework, Cloud Adoption Framework, logging and monitoring design, authentication and authorization, secrets and keys, management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tagging, compliance, identity governance, relational and unstructured storage, data protection, backup and disaster recovery, high availability, compute design, application architecture, messaging, event-driven architecture, API integration, caching, configuration management, automated deployment, migration assessment, IaaS and PaaS migration, database migration, unstructured data migration, connectivity, network performance, network security, load balancing, and routing.