AZ-305 Microsoft Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Free Practice Exam Questions (2026 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your Microsoft AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2026, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
You plan to deploy an Azure BareMetal Infrastructure instance that will host the data tier of a business-critical workload. The application tier of the workload will be hosted on Azure virtual machines.
You need to configure the virtual machines to minimize network latency between the application tier and the data tier.
What should you use?
You configure OAuth2 authorization in API Management as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a Microsoft Entra tenant named contoso.com.
You have a partner organization that has a Microsoft Entra tenant named fabrikam.com.
You plan to provide the users in fabrikam.com with access to the resources in contoso.com by using access packages.
You need to ensure that contoso.com users assigned the Access package assignment manager role can only assign access packages to the fabrikam.com users.
What should you do first in the Microsoft Entra admin center?
You plan to migrate on-premises MySQL databases to Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server.
You need to recommend a solution for the Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server configuration. The solution must meet the following requirements:
• The databases must be accessible if a datacenter fails.
• Costs must be minimized.
Which compute tier should you recommend?
You are designing a data analytics solution that will use Azure Synapse and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. You need to recommend Azure Synapse pools to meet the following requirements:
• Ingest data from Data Lake Storage into hash-distributed tables.
• Implement, query, and update data in Delta Lake.
What should you recommend for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have two app registrations named App1 and App2 in Azure AD. App1 supports role-based access control (RBAC) and includes a role named Writer.
You need to ensure that when App2 authenticates to access App1, the tokens issued by Azure AD include the Writer role claim.
Which blade should you use to modify each app registration? To answer, drag the appropriate blades to the correct app registrations. Each blade may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Your company deploys several Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) to Azure. The VMs are deployed with the Microsoft Dependency Agent and the Microsoft Monitoring Agent installed by using Azure VM extensions. On-premises connectivity has been enabled by using Azure ExpressRoute.
You need to design a solution to monitor the VMs.
Which Azure monitoring services should you use? To answer, select the appropriate Azure monitoring services in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You plan to deploy an Azure App Service web app that will have multiple instances across multiple Azure regions.
You need to recommend a load balancing service for the planned deployment. The solution must meet the following requirements:
Maintain access to the app in the event of a regional outage.
Support Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF).
Support cookie-based affinity.
Support URL routing.
What should you include in the recommendation?
You have an Azure subscription that contains a storage account named storage1.
The storage1 account contains a container named container!
You are planning the development of an app that will process and analyze vast amounts of user analytics data.
You need to recommend a solution to collect data from various sources and store the data in an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace. The solution must ensure that data processing and analysis is automated when a new data file is added to contained
What should you include in the recommendation?
You are designing a storage solution that will ingest, store, and analyze petabytes (PBs) of structured, semi-structured and unstructured text data. The analyzed data will be offloaded to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for long-term retention.
You need to recommend a storage and analytics solution that meets the following requirements:
• Stores the processed data
• Provides interactive analytics
• Supports manual scaling, built-in autoscaling. and custom autoscaling
What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an Azure subscription.
You plan to deploy five storage accounts that will store block blobs and five storage accounts that will host file shares. The file shares will be accessed by using the SMB protocol.
You need to recommend an access authorization solution for the storage accounts. The solution must meet the following requirements:
• Maximize security.
• Prevent the use of shared keys.
• Whenever possible, support time-limited access.
What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an Azure subscription.
You need to deploy a solution that will provide point-in-time restore for blobs in storage accounts that have blob versioning and
blob soft delete enabled.
Which type of blob should you create, and what should you enable for the accounts? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE; Each correct selection is worth one point.

The application will host video files that range from 50 MB to 12 GB. The application will use certificate-based authentication and will be available to users on the internet.
You need to recommend a storage option for the video files. The solution must provide the fastest read performance and must minimize storage costs.
What should you recommend?
You plan provision to a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster in Azure that will use a third-party scheduler.
You need to recommend a solution to provision and manage the HPC cluster node.
What should you include in the recommendation?
TION NO: 277 HOTSPOT
You have an Azure Load Balancer named LB1 that balances requests to five Azure virtual machines.
You need to develop a monitoring solution for LB1. The solution must generate an alert when any of the following conditions are met:
A virtual machine is unavailable.
Connection attempts exceed 50,000 per minute.
Which signal should you include in the solution for each condition? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You plan to deploy the backup policy shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

What should you recommend lo meet the monitoring requirements for App2?
You plan to archive 10 TB of on-premises data files to Azure.
You need to recommend a data archival solution. The solution must minimize the cost of storing the data files.
Which Azure Storage account type should you include in the recommendation?
You are evaluating the components of the migration to Azure that require you to provision an Azure Storage account.
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You need to recommend a solution that meets the data requirements for App1.
What should you recommend deploying to each availability zone that contains an instance of App1?













