Azure AZ-305 Practice Exams

How the AZ-305 exam is structured

Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305) is a Microsoft certification with approximately 50 questions in 120 minutes. The table below shows the exam weighting published for each domain, so you can decide where to spend your study time instead of working through the syllabus in order.

Domain	Exam weight	What it covers
Design Infrastructure Solutions	35%	Design compute, network, and migration
Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring	25%	Design identity and governance solutions
Design Data Storage Solutions	25%	Design data storage solutions
Design Business Continuity Solutions	15%	Design backup and disaster recovery

A passing study plan usually trails the weighting: spend the most sessions on Design Infrastructure Solutions (35%), then check the next domain down before moving on. If your accuracy on a high-weight domain stays under 80%, more practice there is worth more than another pass at a low-weight topic.

Worked sample AZ-305 questions

These questions come from the Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305) practice bank. Read the rationale even when you answer correctly — the explanation is usually where the exam technique lives.

Sample question 1 — Design Infrastructure Solutions

A software vendor must keep European customer data processed in a European Azure region and Australian customer data in an Australian region. Each region runs its own copy of the application, users reach the service through a public hostname, and the vendor must show a regulator that a European user is never routed to the Australian deployment. Which routing method should the architect configure?

A. Azure Traffic Manager with geographic routing and one endpoint per region.
B. Azure Traffic Manager with performance routing to the fastest responding region.
C. Azure Front Door with latency-based routing across the two regional deployments.
D. A public load balancer that spreads connections across both deployments equally.

Answer: A. Option A is correct because geographic routing maps the resolved name to the region that serves the user's location, so a European user is directed to the European deployment as a rule the vendor can demonstrate, rather than as a consequence of measured speed. Option B chooses by latency, which could send a European user to Australia when that endpoint answers faster. Option C also measures speed rather than the user's location. Option D balances connections without regard to where the user sits, which is exactly what the regulator wants to rule out.

Sample question 2 — Design Infrastructure Solutions

A security team deploys a pair of virtual appliances that inspect all traffic between the spokes and the internet. The appliances must receive every protocol and port the spokes send, and the team wants both appliances to be in service at once with health checking so a failed appliance drops out. Which configuration should the architect apply to spread the traffic?

A. An internal load balancer with a rule for each protocol the spokes use.
B. An internal load balancer with HA ports enabled across both appliance
C. A public load balancer with a floating IP rule for the two appliances.
D. An Application Gateway that inspects each request before forwarding it.

Answer: B. Option B is correct because HA ports on an internal load balancer forward every protocol and port without a rule per service, and both appliances sit behind the front end with health probes, so the surviving appliance keeps inspecting when the other fails. Option A would need a separate rule for every port the spokes use, which does not scale to all protocols. Option C gives the appliances a public address they do not need for internal inspection. Option D is a layer-seven service for HTTP traffic and cannot carry arbitrary protocols.

Sample question 3 — Design Infrastructure Solutions

A property agency hosts six customer websites on one pool of internal web servers and pays for a separate public ingress resource for each site. The agency wants all six names to reach the same pool through one gateway, each with its own TLS certificate, so that a request for one hostname is never served by another site's listener. Which feature should the architect configure?

A. Six separate Application Gateways, each holding one certificate for one website.
B. One Application Gateway with a single listener and a certificate that covers all six names.
C. Application Gateway multi-site listeners that select the certificate by the request
D. A public load balancer that reads the hostname and chooses the matching back-end pool.

Answer: C. Option C is correct because multi-site listeners let one gateway host several hostnames, each bound to its own certificate, and the listener matching the incoming hostname decides which site answers. That removes the extra ingress resources while keeping the sites on separate listeners. Option A keeps six gateways and the cost the agency wants to cut. Option B puts every site behind one listener, so a single certificate has to cover names that belong to different owners. Option D cannot read the hostname at the connection level that a load balancer works at.

How to use this AZ-305 practice set

Answer the 10 free questions without notes. Guessing is more useful than looking the answer up — the wrong answers tell you which domain to revisit.

Read every explanation, including the ones you got right. Note the reasoning for each distractor, not just the correct option.

Drill by domain, starting with Design Infrastructure Solutions (35%), then take a mixed set so you practise switching between topics.

Finish with a timed practice exam. Aim to be consistently above the passing score before you book the real AZ-305 exam.

AZ-305 practice questions FAQ

How many free AZ-305 practice questions can I try?

You can answer 10 AZ-305 practice questions free without creating an account. Each one is graded instantly with a written explanation. A free account keeps your progress, and the full bank (300+ questions) unlocks with a subscription.

What topics does the AZ-305 exam cover?

The AZ-305 exam is organised into 4 domains: Design Infrastructure Solutions (35%), Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring (25%), Design Data Storage Solutions (25%), Design Business Continuity Solutions (15%). The weighting above shows how much of the exam each domain represents, so budget study time in the same proportion.

How long is the AZ-305 exam and how is it scored?

The AZ-305 exam has approximately 50 questions in 120 minutes, with a passing score of 700. Practice sets here are scored the same way as the real exam so you can see whether you are above or below the line before test day.

How should I start studying for Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305)?

Start with Design Infrastructure Solutions, the highest-weighted domain, then work down the list. Answer a mixed set after each domain pass — mixing domains forces you to identify what a question is asking before recalling the content, which is what the real exam does.

Are these the same questions that appear on the real AZ-305 exam?

No. These are original practice questions written against the published AZ-305 exam objectives. They mirror the style, difficulty, and domain weighting of the real exam, but the actual exam content is confidential and is not reproduced here.

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