So I passed the AZ-700 last Thursday and I'm still kind of in disbelief. Failed my first attempt back in March with a 692 (passing is 700, brutal) and I spent the last six weeks reworking my entire study approach. The first time around I was mostly watching videos and taking notes like I was back in college. Didn't work.
What turned things around was doing a ton of hands-on labs in Azure and grinding through an AZ-700 practice test almost every day the final two weeks. The question wording on the real exam is tricky — especially anything around ExpressRoute redundancy and BGP routing. I'd say 30-40% of what I saw touched on hybrid connectivity in some way, way more than I expected from the study guide I was using.
My final score was 762. Took me about 8 weeks total, maybe 6-7 hours a week. Happy to share more specifics if anyone's in the middle of studying right now. What topics are people finding the hardest?