Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: AZ-305

Who should take the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam?

This exam is for you, if you carry advanced knowledge and experience in IT Operations, which includes Virtualization, Networking, Security, Identity, Business Continuity, Data Platforms, Governance, and Disaster Recovery.

A professional suitable for this role should be able to manage how the decisions in each area impact an overall solution.

What are the prerequisites for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions certification?

The AZ-305 exam requires you to have experience in:

• Azure Development
• Azure Administration
• DevOps Processes

What skills will be measured in the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions certification exam?

The exam will test your knowledge and understanding in four areas. The domains along with their weightage follow:

Designing of Governance, Identity, and Monitoring Solutions: It includes designing identity and access for applications, solutions for logging and monitoring, authentication and authorization solutions, and governance. This comprises designing a log routing solution, recommending monitoring tools for a solution, suitable level of logging, solution for securing resources and identities, identity management solution, hierarchical and organizational structure for Azure resources, solution for auditing and enforcing compliance, user consent solution for applications, solution for securely storing secrets and passwords, solutions for allowing access to Azure resources, and integrating applications into Azure AD.

Designing of Business Continuity Solutions:  This will include designing a solution for backup and disaster recovery, and high availability. This comprises understanding the recovery solutions for containers, identifying the availability requirements of Azure Resources, recommending a backup and recovery solution for compute, databases, and unstructured data, high availability solution for compute, relational and non-relational data storage, and recovery solution for hybrid, Azure, and on-premises workloads that meets the recovery objectives such as Recovery Level Objective, Recovery Point Objective, and Recovery Time Objective.

Designing of Data Storage Solutions: This includes designing and recommending a Data Storage Solution for Relational and Non-Relational Data, and Data Integration. This comprises designing a data solution for durability and protection, recommending a solution for database scalability, data encryption at rest, in transmission, and in use, data analysis and data integration, storing relational, non-relational, and semi-structured data, balance features, cost, and performance, and access control solutions to data storage.

Designing of Infrastructure Solutions: It includes designing an application architecture, a compute solution, migrations, and network solutions. This will comprise optimizing network performance for applications, assessing and interpreting data, applications, and on-premises servers for migration, evaluating a migration solution, and recommending container-based, compute based, virtual machine-based compute solution, and a suitably sized compute solution on the basis of workload requirements, message architecture, event-driven architecture, automated deployment solution, application configuration management solution, API integration solution, caching solution, solution for migrating applications, virtual machines, unstructured data, and databases, and more.