- Azure solutions architect toolkit: Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework orientation.
- Map of AZ-305 skills measured as of 17 April 2026.
- How this course differs from AZ-104 administrator work.
- Exam logistics: passing score 700/1000, Pearson VUE, Microsoft Learn renewal.
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
Microsoft AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification Training Course
Design Azure identity, governance, storage, business continuity, and infrastructure solutions — the Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) work. This is not AZ-104 administration alone.
Course focus: Design decisions for logging and monitoring, authentication and authorization, governance, relational and non-relational storage, data integration, backup and disaster recovery, high availability, compute, application architecture, migrations, and networking aligned to the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
Course Overview
Design Azure solutions — not day-to-day AZ-104 administration alone.
Accumentum’s Microsoft AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification Training Course prepares architects to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into Azure designs aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework.
This course is not AZ-104. AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate experience is a common foundation and part of the typical expert path, but AZ-305 focuses on design trade-offs across identity, storage, continuity, and infrastructure — not administrator implementation alone.
Course Objectives
What you will be able to design and recommend.
01
Identity, governance, and monitoring
Recommend logging, monitoring, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and governance structures (25–30%).
02
Data storage and integration
Recommend relational, semi-structured, and unstructured storage plus data integration and analysis (20–25%).
03
Business continuity
Recommend backup, disaster recovery, and high availability for compute and data (15–20%).
04
Infrastructure solutions
Recommend compute, application architecture, migrations, and network solutions (30–35%).
Who Should Attend
- Azure solutions architects who design cloud and hybrid solutions on Azure.
- Administrators, developers, and engineers expanding into architecture design decisions.
- People with AZ-104 or equivalent Azure administration experience who are ready for architect work.
- Learners still building administrator skills should complete AZ-104-style experience before AZ-305.
Prerequisites
- Advanced experience with IT operations: networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, data platforms, and governance is expected.
- AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate (or equivalent) is the common prerequisite path; AZ-104 is not this course.
- Experience with Azure administration, development, and DevOps processes supports readiness.
- This training is for architects who design solutions, not for AZ-900 beginners.
Pathway Map
Ten modules mapped to Microsoft AZ-305 skills as of 17 April 2026.
Skills measured: design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions 25–30%; design data storage solutions 20–25%; design business continuity solutions 15–20%; design infrastructure solutions 30–35%.
Course Content
- Recommend a logging solution.
- Recommend a solution for routing logs.
- Recommend a monitoring solution.
- Identity, governance, and monitoring skill area 25–30% begins here.
- Recommend authentication and identity management solutions.
- Recommend authorization for Azure and on-premises resources.
- Recommend secrets, certificates, and keys management.
- Management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tagging, compliance, and identity governance.
- Recommend solutions for storing relational data.
- Recommend database service and compute tiers.
- Recommend database scalability and data protection.
- Data storage skill area 20–25%.
- Recommend solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data.
- Balance features, performance, and costs; protection and durability.
- Recommend data integration solutions.
- Recommend data analysis solutions.
- Recommend recovery solutions for Azure and hybrid workloads that meet recovery objectives.
- Backup and recovery for compute.
- Backup and recovery for databases.
- Backup and recovery for unstructured data (business continuity 15–20%).
- Recommend high availability for compute.
- Recommend high availability for relational data.
- Recommend high availability for semi-structured and unstructured data.
- HA patterns that complement backup and DR design.
- Specify compute components from workload requirements.
- Recommend VM-based, container-based, and serverless solutions.
- Recommend compute for batch processing.
- Infrastructure skill area 30–35% begins here.
- Recommend messaging, event-driven, API integration, caching, configuration, and automated deployment solutions.
- Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework.
- Recommend IaaS/PaaS workload, database, and unstructured data migrations.
- Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration.
- Recommend connectivity from Azure resources to the internet.
- Recommend connectivity to on-premises networks.
- Recommend solutions to optimize network performance and security.
- Recommend load-balancing and routing solutions.
Course Features
Designed for AZ-305 architect design work.
Skills-measured map
Ten modules aligned to Microsoft AZ-305 skills measured as of 17 April 2026.
Architect scope
Design recommendations across identity, storage, continuity, and infrastructure — not AZ-104 implementation alone.
Exam logistics
Public facts only: passing score 700/1000, Pearson VUE, renewal on Microsoft Learn. No unofficial question count.
Prerequisite path
AZ-104 remains the common foundation. This course is for architects who design Azure solutions.
Certification Exam
Prepare for the official Microsoft AZ-305 exam.
AZ-305 Exam Readiness
Accumentum AZ-305 training prepares learners to design Azure infrastructure solutions for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert path uses exam AZ-305 (Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions). Public facts: passing score 700/1000; delivered through Pearson VUE; certification renewal is on Microsoft Learn. This page does not state an unofficial question count.
Skills measured as of 17 April 2026: design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%); design data storage solutions (20–25%); design business continuity solutions (15–20%); design infrastructure solutions (30–35%).
Frequently Asked Questions
AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect training with Accumentum: scope, audience, skills measured, and public exam facts.
No. This is AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert training. AZ-104 is administrator work and a common prerequisite path, not this course.
Azure solutions architects; admins, developers, and engineers expanding into design; and people with AZ-104 or equivalent. Build administrator experience first if needed.
Recommend logging and monitoring, identity and governance, storage and data integration, backup/DR and HA, compute, application architecture, migrations, and network solutions on Azure.
Ten modules: toolkit; logging and monitoring; authentication/authorization and governance; relational storage; non-relational storage and integration; backup and DR; high availability; compute; application architecture and migrations; networking.
As of 17 April 2026: identity/governance/monitoring 25–30%, storage 20–25%, business continuity 15–20%, infrastructure 30–35%.
Exam AZ-305. Passing score 700/1000. Pearson VUE. Renewal on Microsoft Learn.
No. This page uses public exam facts only and does not state an unofficial question count.
Use Accumentum registration for AZ-305 training dates and enrollment support.
Enrollment
Enroll in Microsoft AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification Training with Accumentum.
Enroll in Accumentum’s Microsoft AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification Training Course to prepare for Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. For course dates and enrollment support, visit Accumentum’s registration page linked below.
Prepare for AZ-305 architect design work.
Design Azure identity, storage, continuity, and infrastructure. Not AZ-104 alone.