AZ-305 cheat sheet

Exam at a glance

Domain weightings

How much of the exam each domain covers. Spend your study time in proportion — the heavier the domain, the more questions you'll see.

Key terms

Azure Well-Architected Framework

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets — reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency — for designing quality Azure workloads. AZ-305 expects designs that align with it.

Cloud Adoption Framework

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is guidance covering strategy, planning, migration, and governance for adopting Azure. AZ-305 covers evaluating migrations that leverage this framework.

Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud identity and access management service, formerly Azure Active Directory. AZ-305 covers recommending authentication and identity-management solutions built on it.

Managed identity

A managed identity is a Microsoft Entra identity automatically managed by Azure that lets a resource authenticate to services without storing credentials. AZ-305 covers it when designing authorization and secret-management solutions.

Azure Policy

Azure Policy is a governance service that enforces organizational rules and evaluates resources for compliance. AZ-305 covers it when designing governance and compliance solutions.

Management group

A management group is an Azure container above subscriptions used to apply governance such as policy and access across many subscriptions. AZ-305 covers recommending a management-group and subscription structure.

Availability zone

An availability zone is a physically separate location within an Azure region with independent power, cooling, and networking, used to build highly available solutions. AZ-305 covers it in business-continuity and infrastructure design.

Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery is a disaster-recovery service that replicates workloads to a secondary region and orchestrates failover. AZ-305 covers it when designing backup and disaster-recovery solutions that meet recovery objectives.

Recovery objectives

Recovery objectives are the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) that quantify acceptable downtime and data loss. AZ-305 requires designing recovery solutions that meet stated RTO and RPO.

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database with tunable consistency and low-latency access. AZ-305 covers it when designing storage for semi-structured and unstructured data.

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform-as-a-service relational database. AZ-305 covers recommending it, its service and compute tiers, and scalability when designing relational data storage.

Storage account

A storage account is an Azure resource that provides a namespace for blob, file, queue, and table data with configurable redundancy. AZ-305 covers it when designing durable storage for unstructured data.

Azure Migrate

Azure Migrate is a hub of tools for discovering, assessing, and migrating on-premises servers, databases, and applications to Azure. AZ-305 covers evaluating migration solutions with it.

Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a service for securely storing and controlling access to secrets, keys, and certificates. AZ-305 covers it when designing solutions to manage secrets, certificates, and keys.