Microsoft's skills measured for AZ-305 as of April 17, 2026, mapped to the chapters of Ultra Transcenders AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
| Objective | Chapters |
|---|---|
| Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%) | |
| Design solutions for logging and monitoring | 4. Monitoring and observability |
| Design authentication and authorization solutions | 1. Identity and access with Microsoft Entra ID; 2. Governance, policy and cost management; 3. Keys, secrets and API protection; 5. Azure Storage |
| Design governance | 1. Identity and access with Microsoft Entra ID; 2. Governance, policy and cost management |
| Design data storage solutions (20–25%) | |
| Design data storage solutions for relational data | 3. Keys, secrets and API protection; 6. Relational databases: Azure SQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL |
| Design data storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data | 5. Azure Storage; 7. Azure Cosmos DB |
| Design data integration | 8. Data integration and analytics |
| Design business continuity solutions (15–20%) | |
| Design solutions for backup and disaster recovery | 5. Azure Storage; 6. Relational databases: Azure SQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL; 13. Backup and disaster recovery |
| Design for high availability | 5. Azure Storage; 6. Relational databases: Azure SQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL; 7. Azure Cosmos DB; 9. Compute: virtual machines, App Service, Functions and HPC; 12. Networking |
| Design infrastructure solutions (30–35%) | |
| Design compute solutions | 9. Compute: virtual machines, App Service, Functions and HPC; 10. Containers |
| Design an application architecture | 2. Governance, policy and cost management; 3. Keys, secrets and API protection; 9. Compute: virtual machines, App Service, Functions and HPC; 11. Application integration: messaging, APIs and caching |
| Design migrations | 2. Governance, policy and cost management; 14. Migrating to Azure |
| Design network solutions | 9. Compute: virtual machines, App Service, Functions and HPC; 12. Networking |
The full list of tasks under each objective is in Microsoft's official study guide. The book is organised by technology, so one chapter often serves several objectives.
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