The AZ-305 exam syllabus is divided into four main modules, focusing on designing Microsoft Azure infrastructure solutions. Here’s a detailed breakdown:
Module 1: Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)
- Design Solutions for Logging and Monitoring: Recommend logging and monitoring solutions, including routing logs and managing secrets, certificates, and keys ¹ ².
- Design Authentication and Authorization Solutions: Recommend authentication solutions, identity management, and authorization access to Azure and on-premises resources ¹ ².
- Design Governance: Recommend management group structures, resource tagging strategies, compliance management, and identity governance ¹[2).
Module 2: Design Data Storage Solutions (20-25%)
- Design Data Storage Solutions for Relational Data: Recommend solutions for storing relational data, database service tiers, compute tiers, scalability, and data protection ¹ ².
- Design Data Storage Solutions for Semi-structured and Unstructured Data: Recommend solutions for storing semi-structured and unstructured data, balancing features, performance, and costs ¹ ².
- Design Data Integration: Recommend data integration solutions and data analysis ¹[2).
Module 3: Design Business Continuity Solutions (15-20%)
- Design Solutions for Backup and Disaster Recovery: Recommend recovery solutions for Azure and hybrid workloads, backup and recovery solutions for compute, databases, and unstructured data ¹ ².
- Design for High Availability: Recommend high availability solutions for compute, relational data, and semi-structured and unstructured data ¹[2).
Module 4: Design Infrastructure Solutions (30-35%)
- Design Compute Solutions: Specify compute solution components, recommend virtual machine-based solutions, container-based solutions, serverless-based solutions, and batch processing solutions ¹ ².
- Design Application Architecture: Recommend messaging architectures, event-driven architectures, API integration solutions, caching solutions, and application configuration management ¹ ².
- Design Migrations: Evaluate migration solutions, recommend solutions for migrating workloads to IaaS and PaaS, databases, and unstructured data ¹ ².
- Design Network Solutions: Recommend connectivity solutions, network performance optimization, network security optimization, and load-balancing and routing solutions ¹ ².