Microsoft Certification Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Question 1

What is an Azure Landing Zone?

Accepted Answer

A pre-configured, scalable environment following best practices for deploying enterprise workloads in Azure

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A physical data center location for Azure hardware

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A temporary sandbox for testing Azure resources

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A specific Azure VM size tier

Question 2

Which design pattern decouples services by placing a queue between a producer and consumer to handle load spikes?

Accepted Answer

Queue-based Load Leveling pattern

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Circuit Breaker pattern

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Saga pattern

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Strangler Fig pattern

Question 3

What is the primary consideration when choosing between Azure Traffic Manager and Azure Front Door?

Accepted Answer

Traffic Manager routes DNS-level traffic globally; Front Door is an application-layer (L7) global load balancer with WAF and CDN capabilities

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Traffic Manager is cheaper; Front Door has no cost difference

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Front Door only works in US regions; Traffic Manager is global

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Traffic Manager supports HTTP/HTTPS; Front Door supports TCP only

Question 4

What is the purpose of Azure Blueprints?

Accepted Answer

Defining repeatable sets of Azure resources, policies, and role assignments to deploy compliant environments consistently

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Designing network topology diagrams

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Generating cost reports for Azure subscriptions

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Creating virtual machine images for deployment

Question 5

What architectural benefit does deploying across Azure Availability Zones provide?

Accepted Answer

Protection against an entire datacenter failure within a region, providing 99.99% SLA

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Reduced per-VM cost

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Automatic cross-region failover

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Unlimited throughput for storage accounts

Question 6

When designing a multi-region active-active architecture, which Azure database service supports automatic multi-region write capabilities?

Accepted Answer

Azure Cosmos DB with multi-region writes enabled

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Azure SQL Database

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Azure Database for MySQL

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Azure Table Storage