Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect - AZ-305 Practice Exam

About the AZ-305 certification

Exam code

AZ-305

Official exam guideDomain weightings come from the vendor and change over time. Check the official guide before you book.

1. 1.You manage 40 subscriptions under a single management group. You need to recommend a solution that guarantees every new storage account automatically sends its diagnostic logs to a central Log Analytics workspace, with no action from the subscription owners. What should you recommend?

   • AAn Azure Policy assignment with an Audit effect
   • BAn Azure Monitor action group
   • CA diagnostic setting configured on each storage account
   • DAn Azure Policy assignment with a DeployIfNotExists effectCorrect answer

   Why

   An Azure Policy assignment with a DeployIfNotExists effect creates the diagnostic setting on resources that lack one, and a remediation task fixes existing resources. Audit only reports drift, and a manual setting per account does not scale to 40 subscriptions.

2. 2.A regulator requires that platform logs be kept for seven years, but the logs are queried only a few times a year. You need to recommend the lowest-cost retention design. What should you recommend?

   • AExport the logs to Azure Data Explorer with hot cache enabled
   • BKeep seven years of interactive retention in the Log Analytics workspace
   • CStream the logs to an Event Hubs namespace with a seven-year retention
   • DArchive the logs to an Azure Storage account and move the blobs to the Archive tierCorrect answer

   Why

   Archiving through a diagnostic setting to an Azure Storage account with a lifecycle policy moving blobs to Archive is far cheaper than seven years of Log Analytics interactive retention, and the rare queries tolerate a rehydration delay.

3. 3.You need to recommend a solution that alerts the operations team when a public web application becomes unreachable from Europe, North America, and Asia, before customers report it. What should you recommend?

   • AAzure Service Health alerts for the hosting region
   • BAn Azure Monitor metric alert on the App Service CPU percentage
   • CApplication Insights standard availability tests from multiple regionsCorrect answer
   • DA Log Analytics scheduled query rule over AzureActivity

   Why

   Application Insights standard availability tests probe a public endpoint from multiple Azure regions on a schedule and raise an alert when the probes fail, which detects a regional outage before users report it.

4. 4.A security team runs Splunk on-premises and needs Azure platform logs delivered to it within seconds of being generated. You need to recommend the integration point. What should you recommend?

   • ASchedule an Azure Automation runbook to query the workspace
   • BSend the logs to an Azure Storage account and poll the blobs
   • CStream the logs to an Azure Event Hubs namespaceCorrect answer
   • DUse a Log Analytics workspace data export to a storage account

   Why

   A diagnostic setting can stream to an Azure Event Hubs namespace, which is the supported near-real-time hand-off to partner SIEM tools such as Splunk. Storage archiving and workspace export are batch-oriented and add minutes of latency.

5. 5.An application is composed of an App Service front end, a function app, and a Service Bus queue. Support engineers cannot tell which component caused a slow request. You need to recommend a solution that shows the full path of a single request across all three. What should you recommend?

   • AConfigure a Log Analytics workspace data export
   • BEnable Application Insights on each component and use end-to-end transaction detailsCorrect answer
   • CEnable VM insights on the underlying compute
   • DCreate an Azure Monitor workbook over platform metrics

   Why

   Application Insights correlates telemetry from each component through the operation ID and renders it as an end-to-end transaction, which is exactly the per-request breakdown the engineers lack.

Practice all 65 questions

Frequently asked questions