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AZ-305 architect journey
AZ-305 asks you to recommend a solution and defend the trade-off. These visual lessons teach the decision, one Contoso problem at a time, and sit beside our storage, database, compute and networking lessons so every exam domain is covered.
Structure the estate, connect the directories, control who can do what, and make sure you can see what happened.
Recommend a management-group and subscription structure, a tagging strategy, and the policy and compliance tools that enforce them.
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Sync on-premises directories, choose a sign-in method, serve legacy apps and publish on-premises resources securely.
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Pick the right role system, give workloads identities instead of secrets, and keep privileged and partner access time-bound and reviewed.
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Decide where signals go: workspace design, routing logs with diagnostic settings, alerts, and a SIEM on top.
Start lesson 04 →Also in the library for this domain
Our strongest domain already has design-style lessons, so there is nothing new to add here. Start with these.
SQL Database, Managed Instance or SQL Server on a VM: service tier, scaling, availability and protection.
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LRS, ZRS, GRS and GZRS, plus tiers, soft delete, versioning and immutability for blobs.
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Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Synapse and Stream Analytics, and the hot, warm and cold paths.
Open lesson →More for this domain
Start from what the business can tolerate, then choose backup, replication and redundancy to match.
Turn “how long can we be down?” into a design: Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, or both.
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Zone redundancy, geo-replication and failover groups, multi-region Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL high availability, matched to RTO and RPO.
Start lesson 06 →Also in the library for this domain
Choose the compute, shape the application, plan the move, and connect it all. Networking already has ten lessons.
VMs, containers, App Service, Functions or Batch: the questions that decide, applied to five Contoso workloads.
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API Management, caching, messaging versus events, configuration, and automated deployment.
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Assess what you have, pick a strategy per workload, then move servers, databases and unstructured data.
Start lesson 09 →Also in the library for this domain
Design exams reward reading the requirements closely. Practise spotting the words that eliminate options, and justifying every choice.
For current exam details always use Microsoft’s pages. The course case studies are written design exercises built around Tailwind Traders, and need no Azure subscription.