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Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Standardize your team on Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions with a structured Microsoft training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

1
Course
1
Practice exam
10
Core skills
$165
Exam fee (Microsoft)
Microsoft Azure / 365 admin team at workstations with PowerShell and identity consoles
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (Microsoft)
$165
Courses on path
1
Exam code
  • AZ-305

Exam datasheet

Format
The exam is proctored and may include interactive components.
Prerequisites
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Recommended experience
Subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure, including compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security; experience advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into Azure designs.
Recertification
1 year

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$165

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions path takes AZ-305.

  1. AZ-305Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $165
    Exam length
    120 minutes
    Questions
    40-60
    Passing score
    700/1000

    Exam blueprint: AZ-305

Skills your team builds

Design identitygovernanceand monitoring solutionsDesign data storage solutionsDesign business continuity solutionsDesign infrastructure solutionsDesign compute solutionsDesign application architectureDesign migrationsDesign network solutions

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

Microsoft career ladder

Where Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions sits in your team's Microsoft progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Expert level

    3 certs
Customer outcome

Build AZ-305 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see Microsoft skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

Team capability

Make AZ-305 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AZ-305 gives leadership a clear picture of Microsoft skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Exam
  • AZ-305

Frequently asked questions about Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions training for their team.

How does AZ-305 fit into our internal compliance or governance program?

Teams typically cite AZ-305 when documenting that the engineers who design Azure identity, governance, logging, and disaster recovery hold a validated Microsoft design credential. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion, and completion exports that can support audit evidence. The auditor's control crosswalk decides how the certification maps to any formal framework requirement.

Who on the team should hold AZ-305, and what can a certified team own?

IT leaders usually assign AZ-305 to the engineers who make Azure design decisions, such as solutions architects and senior cloud engineers. The linked course lessons cover designing logging, governance, authentication and authorization, relational and non-relational data, data ingestion and integration, high availability, disaster recovery, compute, application architecture, networking, and migrations to Azure. A certified team can own those design decisions across the organization's Azure workloads.

What does CBT Nuggets Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Microsoft's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on AZ-305?

The linked CBT Nuggets training totals about 11 hours of video. The overall time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point with Azure architecture and design work. Training Managers can assign the course and follow per-learner progress and completion in team reporting.

What if Microsoft updates the Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates Microsoft course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Microsoft restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Ready to Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions-certify your team?

Build Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions training across the team — a practice exam and reporting included.