Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) - Full Practice Exam 1

1. A business process requires queued commands, dead-letter handling, and ordered processing within related message groups. Which messaging service should the architect evaluate?
2. A company uses hub-and-spoke networking and wants centralized inspection of spoke-to-spoke traffic. Which design is necessary?
3. A compliance archive is rarely read and can tolerate hours of retrieval delay. What should govern choosing the Blob archive tier?
4. A containerized API needs revisions, autoscaling from HTTP or event demand, and a managed platform. The team does not require direct Kubernetes API control. Which option should it evaluate first?
5. A Cosmos DB application places nearly every write into one logical partition. The account has available total throughput, yet the hot partition is throttled. Which design change is most relevant?
6. A customer-facing application is slow only during calls to a downstream service. The team needs distributed request and dependency telemetry. Which capability should the architect prioritize?
7. A database design needs readable secondary copies in another supported Azure region. The team accepts asynchronous replication and must plan for potential data loss on forced failover. Which capability fits?
8. A datacenter needs private provider-based network connectivity to Azure with predictable routing and no public-internet transport for that circuit. Which service should be evaluated?
9. A design relies entirely on a private subnet and assumes applications inside it never require authentication. Which change best aligns with a defense-in-depth approach?
10. A development SQL database has long idle periods and can tolerate resume latency. Which supported compute option should be considered to reduce idle compute charges?
11. A disaster-recovery rehearsal must validate the recovered application without disrupting production or connecting duplicate servers to the production network. Which approach fits?
12. A finance auditor needs to inspect Azure resource configuration in one subscription without changing resources or reading every storage object's contents. Which starting assignment best fits?
13. A globally distributed application needs a managed NoSQL document store with selectable consistency and regional placement. Which database should the architect evaluate?
14. A logistics service must resume business processing within 30 minutes of a declared disaster. Which objective must its recovery plan demonstrate?
15. A multinational wants sensitive cloud application access to require compliant devices and additional authentication based on sign-in conditions. Which capability should the architect use?
16. A partner needs individual access to an enterprise application while retaining its own organizational credentials. The customer wants per-user lifecycle and access governance. Which approach fits?
17. A platform team requires Kubernetes APIs, custom controllers, and control over cluster configuration for a container platform. Which Azure service best matches?
18. A production platform spans VMs, applications, and managed databases. Operations wants centralized metrics, logs, alerting, and application performance telemetry. Which service family is the primary fit?
19. A public HTTP application runs in two regions and needs global edge routing, TLS termination, and WAF protection. Which front-end service best fits?
20. A read-heavy application repeatedly retrieves the same reference data from its database. It can tolerate a defined cache-expiry window. Which pattern can reduce database load?
21. A recovery test restores the web tier, but identity and database dependencies remain unavailable. Which TWO improvements address the failure? Select TWO.
22. A regulated workload must demonstrate compliance with a group of resource configuration controls. The architect wants a reusable grouping with compliance reporting. What should be assigned?
23. A SaaS provider has hundreds of Azure SQL databases with intermittent usage peaks at different times. It wants to share a bounded compute budget across databases. Which design fits?
24. A service must tolerate a zone outage while remaining within one allowed Azure region. What is the appropriate architectural direction?
25. A service runs short event-driven processing when objects arrive and needs platform-managed execution scaling. Which hosting model should be evaluated?
26. A small team needs to host a conventional web application and control code and configuration while avoiding guest OS administration. Which hosting option is a sensible first choice?
27. A stateless application must scale horizontally. Which change most directly removes a common obstacle to distributing requests across instances?
28. A storage account uses geo-redundant storage. An application assumes the secondary always contains the last acknowledged primary write. What should the architect explain?
29. A supported PaaS service must be accessible from a connected private network using a private IP, while public access is restricted. What should the architect include?
30. A system combines transactional orders, large binary attachments, and an in-memory response cache. Which storage architecture best fits these distinct access patterns?
31. A telemetry platform must ingest a high-volume stream and let several consumers independently read events using their own progress positions. Which service fits?
32. A Windows application requires a managed shared file system accessible using SMB. Rewriting the application for object APIs is not acceptable. Which service is the direct fit?
33. An analytical lake requires directory-oriented organization, fine-grained access, and efficient big-data file operations. Which Azure Storage capability should be evaluated?
34. An application may lose at most five minutes of committed business data after a disaster. Which recovery objective expresses this requirement?
35. An architect must distinguish database encryption at rest from controlling which users may query sensitive rows. Which statement is accurate?
36. An Azure-hosted application must read secrets from Key Vault without maintaining a client secret in its configuration. Which identity approach should be recommended?
37. An Azure SQL Database application needs a stable connection endpoint that can direct connections to the primary after a supported geographic failover. Which capability should the architect evaluate?
38. An enterprise must assess an existing server estate before selecting migration waves and Azure target sizes. Which service should the architect include?
39. An enterprise needs a managed gateway for API authentication integration, throttling policies, and a developer-facing API catalog. Which service should be recommended?
40. An internal regional application needs HTTP path routing across private backend pools. Which service is appropriate?
41. An operator accidentally deletes business data, and the deletion propagates to all replicas. Which protection should the architect have designed in addition to replication?
42. Applications need centrally governed storage of secrets, encryption keys, and certificates. The architect wants role-based access and auditable access operations. Which service fits?
43. Cedar Retail wants administrators to activate privileged Azure roles only during approved maintenance, with justification and strong authentication. Which capability should the architect recommend?
44. Northlake Insurance is moving a SQL Server application that depends on instance-level features and SQL Server Agent. It wants to reduce guest OS maintenance. Which Azure database option should it assess first?
45. Northlake Insurance runs supported Azure VMs and requires regional disaster recovery with replication and orchestrated failover. Which service should form the VM recovery component?
46. Partner access to an application must be reassessed each quarter by designated reviewers. Accounts no longer needed should lose their assignments. Which capability best supports this process?
47. Production subscriptions belong to separate business units. All must inherit centrally enforced region restrictions while retaining local resource administration. Which TWO governance steps fit? Select TWO.
48. Several independent services must react to storage events through filtered subscriptions without the producer calling each consumer directly. Which service is designed for event distribution?
49. Several supported application resources must share one independently managed identity whose lifecycle survives replacement of any one resource. Which identity type fits?
50. Two environments have legal requirements that their operational logs remain in different Azure regions with separate administration. What should guide the Log Analytics workspace design?

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