Free AZ-305 Sample Questions — Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

You plan to deploy an Azure Database for MySQL flexible server named Server1 to the East US Azure region. You need to implement a business continuity solution for Server1. The solution must minimize downtime in the event of a failover to a paired region. What should you do?

• A. Create a read replica
• B. Store the database files in Azure premium file shares
• C. Implement Geo-redundant backup
• D. Configure native MySQL replication

You have a .NET web service named Service1 that performs the following tasks: ✑ Reads and writes temporary files to the local file system. ✑ Writes to the Application event log. You need to recommend a solution to host Service1 in Azure. The solution must meet the following requirements: ✑ Minimize maintenance overhead. ✑ Minimize costs. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. an Azure App Service web app
• B. an Azure virtual machine scale set
• C. an App Service Environment (ASE)
• D. an Azure Functions app

You are developing a sales application that will contain several Azure cloud services and handle different components of a transaction. Different cloud services will process customer orders, billing, payment, inventory, and shipping. You need to recommend a solution to enable the cloud services to asynchronously communicate transaction information by using XML messages. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. Azure Notification Hubs
• B. Azure Service Fabric
• C. Azure Queue Storage
• D. Azure Application Gateway

You are designing an application that will aggregate content for users. You need to recommend a database solution for the application. The solution must meet the following requirements: ✑ Support SQL commands. ✑ Support multi-master writes. ✑ Guarantee low latency read operations. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. Azure Cosmos DB SQL API
• B. Azure SQL Database that uses active geo-replication
• C. Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
• D. Azure Database for PostgreSQL

You need to recommend a solution for the App1 maintenance task. The solution must minimize costs. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. an Azure logic app
• B. an Azure function
• C. an Azure virtual machine
• D. an App Service WebJob

You are designing an application that will aggregate content for users. You need to recommend a database solution for the application. The solution must meet the following requirements: • Support SQL commands. • Support multi-master writes. • Guarantee low latency read operations. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
• B. Azure SQL Database that uses active geo-replication
• C. Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
• D. Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

You have an on-premises application that consumes data from multiple databases. The application code references database tables by using a combination of the server, database, and table name. You need to migrate the application data to Azure. To which two services can you migrate the application data to achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. SQL Server Stretch Database
• B. SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine
• C. Azure SQL Database
• D. Azure SQL Managed Instance

You are developing an app that will use Azure Functions to process Azure Event Hubs events. Request processing is estimated to take between five and 20 minutes. You need to recommend a hosting solution that meets the following requirements: • Supports estimates of request processing runtimes • Supports event-driven autoscaling for the app Which hosting plan should you recommend?

• A. Dedicated
• B. Consumption
• C. App Service
• D. Premium

You are designing an application that will be hosted in Azure. 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?

• A. Azure Files
• B. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
• C. Azure Blob Storage
• D. Azure SQL Database

You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that syncs with an on-premises Active Directory domain. Your company has a line-of-business (LOB) application that was developed internally. You need to implement SAML single sign-on (SSO) and enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) when users attempt to access the application from an unknown location. Which two features should you include in the solution? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
• B. Azure Application Gateway
• C. Azure AD enterprise applications
• D. Azure AD Identity Protection
• E. Conditional Access policies

You have an Azure Functions microservice app named App1 that is hosted in the Consumption plan. App1 uses an Azure Queue Storage trigger. You plan to migrate App1 to an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. You need to prepare the AKS cluster to support App1. The solution must meet the following requirements: • Use the same scaling mechanism as the current deployment. • Support kubenet and Azure Container Networking Interface (CNI) networking. Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct answer is worth one point.

• A. Configure the horizontal pod autoscaler
• B. Install Virtual Kubelet
• C. Configure the AKS cluster autoscaler
• D. Configure the virtual node add-on
• E. Install Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling (KEDA)

You plan to automata the deployment of resources to Azure subscriptions. What is a difference between using Azure Blueprints and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates?

• A. ARM templates remain connected to the deployed resources
• B. Only blueprints can contain policy definitions
• C. Only ARM templates can contain policy definitions
• D. Blueprints remain connected to the deployed resources

You need to design a highly available Azure SQL database that meets the following requirements: • Failover between replicas of the database must occur without any data loss. • The database must remain available in the event of a zone outage. • Costs must be minimized. Which deployment option should you use?

• A. Azure SQL Database Basic
• B. Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose
• C. Azure SQL Database Business Critical
• D. Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical

You are developing a sales application that will contain several Azure cloud services and handle different components of a transaction. Different cloud services will process customer orders, billing, payment, inventory, and shipping. You need to recommend a solution to enable the cloud services to asynchronously communicate transaction information by using XML messages. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. Azure Service Bus
• B. Azure Data Lake
• C. Azure Application Gateway
• D. Azure Notification Hubs

You are designing an app that will include two components. The components will communicate by sending messages via a queue. You need to recommend a solution to process the messages by using a First in, First out (FIFO) pattern. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. storage queues with a custom metadata setting
• B. Azure Service Bus queues with partitioning enabled
• C. Azure Service Bus queues with sessions enabled
• D. storage queues with a stored access policy

You are developing a sales application that will contain several Azure cloud services and handle different components of a transaction. Different cloud services will process customer orders, billing, payment, inventory, and shipping. You need to recommend a solution to enable the cloud services to asynchronously communicate transaction information by using XML messages. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. Azure Service Fabric
• B. Azure Traffic Manager
• C. Azure Queue Storage
• D. Azure Notification Hubs

You are developing a sales application that will contain several Azure cloud services and handle different components of a transaction. Different cloud services will process customer orders, billing, payment, inventory, and shipping. You need to recommend a solution to enable the cloud services to asynchronously communicate transaction information by using XML messages. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. Azure Service Fabric
• B. Azure Notification Hubs
• C. Azure Service Bus
• D. Azure Traffic Manager

You are planning an Azure IoT Hub solution that will include 50,000 IoT devices. Each device will stream data, including temperature, device ID, and time data. Approximately 50,000 records will be written every second. The data will be visualized in near real time. You need to recommend a service to store and query the data. Which two services can you recommend? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

• A. Azure Table Storage
• B. Azure Event Grid
• C. Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
• D. Azure Time Series Insights

You need to recommend a solution to generate a monthly report of all the new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) resource deployments in your Azure subscription. What should you include in the recommendation?

• A. Azure Monitor action groups
• B. Azure Arc
• C. Azure Monitor metrics
• D. Azure Activity Log

You have an Azure subscription. The subscription contains a tiered app named App1 that is distributed across multiple containers hosted in Azure Container Instances. You need to deploy an Azure Monitor monitoring solution for App. The solution must meet the following requirements: • Support using synthetic transaction monitoring to monitor traffic between the App1 components. • Minimize development effort. What should you include in the solution?

• A. Network insights
• B. Application Insights
• C. Container insights
• D. Log Analytics Workspace insights