AZ 305 certification demonstrates expertise designing resilient, scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure solutions, advancing towards the Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential.
Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert Training with the Official Exam Included
Got a team to train? Logitrain can deliver the AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions course in house at your premises anywhere in Australia, with the trainer, digital course material, mock test, and included official AZ-305 exam as the public courses. It suits teams who want their cloud and architecture staff trained together on dates that suit the business. Tailored and customised options are available if you want the content focused on the Azure services your team actually designs and runs. To talk through dates and numbers, visit the in-house training page.
AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Certification
The AZ-305 certification is the single exam behind the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential, and it sits at the top of the Azure architecture career path. This course prepares you to translate business requirements into well designed Azure solutions, covering identity, governance, monitoring, data storage, business continuity, and core infrastructure. It replaces the retired AZ-303 and AZ-304 exams, which Microsoft consolidated into one exam, so AZ-305 is now the current and only path to the Azure Solutions Architect Expert title.
The course suits experienced cloud professionals who already administer Azure and want to move from building and running workloads into designing them. You should hold, or be working towards, the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification, because Microsoft requires the Azure Administrator Associate certification before it awards the Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential.
What the AZ-305 course covers
Over four days the course works through the four areas Microsoft measures in Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. You will design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions; design data storage solutions for relational, semi-structured, and unstructured data; design business continuity solutions including backup, disaster recovery, and high availability; and design infrastructure solutions across compute, application architecture, migration, and networking. Every design choice is framed against the Azure Well-Architected Framework and the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, which is exactly how the exam frames them.
Training is instructor-led, hands-on, and delivered live in real time, so you practise the design decisions rather than only reading about them. After AZ-305, a natural next step for architects moving into security is the SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect course. You can also see the full range on the Microsoft certification training courses page.
Logitrain has trained over 15,000 professionals since 2004 and over 2,500 Australian organisations, and the official AZ-305 exam fee is included in the course price, which you can sit within three months of finishing your training.
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential proves you can design complete Azure solutions, from identity and governance through to compute, storage, networking, business continuity, and migration. It is an expert-level, role-based certification, which puts it at the top of the Azure architecture path and a clear step above administrator-level certifications. For employers it signals that you can take a business requirement and turn it into a secure, reliable, and cost effective design that holds up in production, which is why it is commonly asked for in Azure Solutions Architect, Cloud Architect, and Lead Cloud Engineer roles.
With Logitrain the official AZ-305 exam fee, worth $250, is included in the course price, and you can sit it within three months of finishing your training. You keep the course material in digital format, the course is backed by the Logitrain price beat guarantee, and there are no hidden extras. You can sit the official exam at the Logitrain test centre, at any other Pearson VUE test centre, or online through Pearson VUE online proctoring from a private space. Training is available in-person in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, plus live online across Australia, all delivered live in real time with a trainer. Many providers charge for the exam on top of the course fee, so it is worth comparing the total cost rather than the headline price alone.
There are no hard prerequisites to sit Exam AZ-305 itself, so you can enrol based on experience. To get the most from the course, Microsoft recommends advanced, hands-on experience with Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes, along with a strong working knowledge of IT operations across networking, virtualisation, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance.
You should also be comfortable with Azure compute options such as virtual machines, containers, and serverless solutions, Azure virtual networking including load balancers, Azure storage for both unstructured data and databases, and general application design concepts such as messaging and high availability.
One point matters for the credential itself. To be awarded the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, Microsoft requires you to hold the Azure Administrator Associate certification first, so for most people the better starting point is the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator course. If you are new to Azure altogether, begin with the AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals course before moving on to AZ-104 and then AZ-305.
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam.
- Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, leading to the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification
You can book and sit the exam within three months of finishing your course. Sit it at the Logitrain test centre, at any other Pearson VUE test centre, or online through Pearson VUE online proctoring from a private space.
Exam format: a maximum of around 60 multiple choice and case study based questions, approximately 100 minutes, with a passing score of 700 on a scale of 1 to 1000.
The course includes the Logitrain digital course material for AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, mapped to the current exam objectives and yours to keep for revision.
- Design identity, authentication, and authorisation solutions using Microsoft Entra ID
- Design governance using management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tagging, and policy
- Design logging and monitoring solutions for Azure and hybrid workloads
- Design relational data storage solutions and select the right service and compute tiers
- Design storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data
- Design data integration and data analysis solutions
- Design backup and disaster recovery solutions that meet recovery objectives
- Design high availability solutions for compute, relational data, and storage
- Design compute solutions across virtual machines, containers, and serverless
- Design application architectures using messaging, events, caching, and API integration
- Design migration solutions using the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Design network connectivity, security, performance, and load-balancing solutions
- Apply the Azure Well-Architected Framework to balance cost, security, reliability, and performance
This is an expert-level course suited to experienced cloud professionals, so it is not an entry point into Azure. It is a strong fit for:
- Azure Solutions Architects and Cloud Solutions Architects
- Azure Administrators ready to move from running workloads to designing them
- Cloud Engineers and Lead Cloud Engineers
- Infrastructure Architects and Enterprise Architects working with Azure
- DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers extending into solution design
- Systems Administrators and Network Engineers progressing into a cloud architecture role
- Technical consultants and pre-sales professionals who design Azure solutions for clients
- Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
- Recommend a logging solution
- Recommend a solution for routing logs
- Recommend a monitoring solution
- Recommend an authentication solution
- Recommend an identity management solution
- Recommend a solution for authorising access to Azure resources
- Recommend a solution for authorising access to on-premises resources
- Recommend a solution to manage secrets, certificates, and keys
- Recommend a structure for management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, and a strategy for resource tagging
- Recommend a solution for managing compliance
- Recommend a solution for identity governance
- Design data storage solutions
- Recommend a solution for storing relational data
- Recommend a database service tier and compute tier
- Recommend a solution for database scalability
- Recommend a solution for data protection
- Recommend a solution for storing semi-structured data
- Recommend a solution for storing unstructured data
- Recommend a data storage solution to balance features, performance, and costs
- Recommend a data solution for protection and durability
- Recommend a solution for data integration
- Recommend a solution for data analysis
- Design business continuity solutions
- Recommend a recovery solution for Azure and hybrid workloads that meets recovery objectives
- Recommend a backup and recovery solution for compute
- Recommend a backup and recovery solution for databases
- Recommend a backup and recovery solution for unstructured data
- Recommend a high availability solution for compute
- Recommend a high availability solution for relational data
- Recommend a high availability solution for semi-structured and unstructured data
- Design infrastructure solutions
- Specify components of a compute solution based on workload requirements
- Recommend a virtual machine-based solution
- Recommend a container-based solution
- Recommend a serverless-based solution
- Recommend a compute solution for batch processing
- Recommend a messaging architecture
- Recommend an event-driven architecture
- Recommend a solution for API integration
- Recommend a caching solution for applications
- Recommend an application configuration management solution
- Recommend an automated deployment solution for applications
- Evaluate a migration solution that uses the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
- Recommend a solution for migrating workloads to infrastructure as a service and platform as a service
- Recommend a solution for migrating databases
- Recommend a solution for migrating unstructured data
- Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet
- Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks
- Recommend a solution to optimise network performance
- Recommend a solution to optimise network security
- Recommend a load-balancing and routing solution
- AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator course is the prerequisite for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential and the right course to complete before AZ-305.
- AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals course is the entry point if you are new to Azure and want the basics before AZ-104 and AZ-305.
- SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect course is a natural expert-level next step for architects who want to design security across Azure environments.
- SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals course suits architects who want a grounding in Microsoft security and identity concepts.
- Cloud Computing Job Ready Program combines training, certifications, an internship, and career counselling for people targeting a cloud role.
- Microsoft certification training courses lists the full Microsoft range in one place.
What is the AZ-305 certification?
AZ-305 is the Microsoft exam behind the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential. It validates your ability to design Azure solutions across identity, governance, monitoring, data storage, business continuity, and infrastructure.
Is the AZ-305 exam included in the course?
Yes. The official AZ-305 exam fee is included in the Logitrain course price, and you can sit the exam within three months of finishing your training.
Do I need any prerequisites to do the AZ-305 course?
There are no hard prerequisites to sit the exam, but Microsoft recommends advanced experience with Azure administration, development, and DevOps. To be awarded the expert credential you must also hold the Azure Administrator Associate certification, so most people complete AZ-104 first.
Which exam does this course prepare me for?
The course prepares you for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, which is the current and only exam for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
How long is the AZ-305 course?
The course runs over four days full time, or four weeks part time. Some self-study before the exam is recommended.
Where can I do the AZ-305 course?
You can attend in-person in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra, or join live online across Australia. Every session is delivered live in real time with a trainer.
Should I do AZ-104 or AZ-305 first?
Complete AZ-104 first. The Azure Administrator Associate certification is required before Microsoft awards the Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential, and the administration knowledge makes the AZ-305 design topics easier to follow.
Did AZ-305 replace AZ-303 and AZ-304?
Yes. Microsoft retired AZ-303 and AZ-304 and consolidated them into the single AZ-305 exam, so AZ-305 is now the only path to the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
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Take the certification exam within 3 months of course / module completion
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Includes Mock & Test Questions
Mock test is included in the full-time courses to assist with your preparation
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