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AZ-305 · 60 questions · 120 min · passing score 700/1000

The real reason candidates miss AZ-305

It is not the Azure Policy effect name. It is the timing.

AZ-305 often gives several Azure Policy effects that all sound governance-friendly. The exam tests whether you matched the effect to the exact moment in time: block a bad create, fix an existing resource, or just report drift. AnyCert trains that distinction.

AZ-305 governance scenarioCorrect answer marked

You must enforce HTTPS on Storage Accounts at creation and auto-fix existing non-compliant ones. Which effect combination best meets the requirement?

A.

Use Deny to block non-compliant creates and DeployIfNotExists with remediation to configure HTTPS on existing resources automatically.

Deny handles creation-time enforcement. DeployIfNotExists plus remediation handles the backlog of existing resources.

B.

Use Audit to log non-compliant creates and Modify to change the property inline during deployment without blocking it.

Audit only reports. Modify can help on create or update, but it does not give the block-plus-backfill combination the stem requires.

C.

Use Append to add the HTTPS property to the template and Disabled to allow exceptions when needed without additional controls.

Append sounds automatic, but it does not enforce ongoing compliance or remediate existing resources.

D.

Use AuditIfNotExists to trigger alerts and rely on resource locks to prevent changes that disable HTTPS for any storage account.

AuditIfNotExists reports drift. Locks are unrelated to setting the property correctly in the first place.

The pattern

AZ-305 policy questions are timing questions. Three answers mention real Azure Policy effects. Only one matches both moments in the stem: stop bad creates now, then repair the backlog. The bank drills that until it is automatic.

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Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutionsCorrect: A

A business unit has unpredictable spend spikes. They want alerts at 50%, 80%, and 100% of budget and a quick way to see which services drive variance. What solution design fits?

A. Create a subscription-level budget with multiple thresholds and action groups, and use Cost Analysis filtering to break down spend by service and tag.

B. Create a management group policy that denies deployments when daily costs exceed the prior week average, preventing runaway spending automatically.

C. Enable Azure Advisor only, because Advisor will generate budget alerts and show per-service variance without additional configuration needs.

D. Export billing data to a storage account and rely on ad-hoc spreadsheets, since exports automatically create alerts for defined thresholds.

Create a subscription‑level budget with multiple thresholds and action groups, then use Cost Analysis to break down spend by service or tag.

Design data storage solutionsCorrect: A

A single‑tenant workload writes thousands of events per second using one PartitionKey, causing throttling. Which design change most effectively alleviates the hot partition?

Shard the PartitionKey by adding a hashed suffix (e. g.

Design business continuity solutionsCorrect: D

What is the primary benefit of using Azure SQL auto-failover groups for disaster recovery?

Azure SQL auto-failover groups are designed for regional disaster recovery. Their primary benefit is providing a single, stable listener endpoint that applications can connect to. This endpoint automatically routes traffic to the primary database, and in the event of a failover, it transparently redirects traffic to the secondary database in the paired region, simplifying connection management and reducing application downtime.

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Question 15 - Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions

Which Azure Policy effect combination both blocks non-HTTPS storage account creates and remediates existing ones?

Your answer: Audit plus Modify.

Correct: Deny plus DeployIfNotExists with remediation.

Modify still changes the property. Why is that not enough?

Because the stem has two jobs. One is block bad new deployments. The other is repair existing drift. Audit plus Modify sounds close, but it does not give that exact pair of behaviors cleanly.

What should I look for in AZ-305 governance questions?

Read for time. Ask whether the policy needs to prevent, report, or remediate - and whether that applies to new resources, existing resources, or both.

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Aligned to AZ-305. Built for architecture and governance tradeoffs.

AZ-305 is not a memorization exam. It is a design-judgment exam. Here is what is in the bank.

Mapped to all 4 AZ-305 domains

Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions, Design data storage solutions, Design business continuity solutions, and Design infrastructure solutions.

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You train the tradeoff calls AZ-305 actually asks: policy effects, landing zones, data platform fit, continuity design, and infrastructure architecture choices.

254 current practice questions

You get 254 AZ-305 questions across governance, storage, continuity, and infrastructure - all in one focused path.

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