Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305) practice questions

Domain coverage 4 domains

• Design Infrastructure Solutions
• Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions
• Design Data Storage Solutions
• Design Business Continuity Solutions

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1. Q1 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   You have an Azure subscription that contains a custom application named Application1. Application1 is developed by an external company named Fabrikam, Ltd. Developers at Fabrikam are assigned role-based access control (RBAC) permissions to components of Application1. All users are licensed for the Microsoft 365 E5 plan. You need to recommend a solution to verify that the Fabrikam developers still require permissions to Application1. The solution must meet the following requirements:

   • Send a monthly email to the developers' managers that lists the access to Application1.
   • Automatically revoke access if a manager does not verify the access.
   • Minimize development effort.

   What should you recommend?

   1. In Microsoft Entra ID, create an access review for Application1.
   2. Create an Azure Automation runbook that runs the Get-AzRoleAssignment cmdlet.
   3. In Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management, create a custom role assignment for the Application1 resource.
   4. Create an Azure Automation runbook that runs the Get-AzureADUserAppRoleAssignment cmdlet.

   Microsoft Entra ID access reviews are designed for periodic review of user access permissions. They support automatic notification emails to managers and can automatically revoke access when managers fail to verify. This approach requires no custom development. PIM is for just-in-time privileged access, not periodic access review of regular RBAC assignments. Automation runbooks require significant development effort.
2. Q2 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   You have an Azure subscription. The subscription has a blob container that contains several blobs. Ten users from your company's finance department plan to access the blobs during the month of April. You need to recommend a solution to enable access to the blobs for the finance department users ONLY during the month of April. Which security solution should you include in the recommendation?

   1. Shared access signatures (SAS)
   2. Conditional Access policies
   3. Certificates
   4. Access keys

   Shared Access Signatures (SAS) provide delegated access to Azure Storage resources with a specified time window. You can generate a SAS token with a start and expiry time that covers only the month of April. Access keys provide permanent access, Conditional Access policies control user authentication rather than storage-level access, and certificates are for authentication, not time-bound access delegation.
3. Q3 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   You have an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that syncs with an on-premises Active Directory domain. You have an internal web app named WebApp1 that is hosted on-premises. WebApp1 uses Integrated Windows authentication. Some users work remotely and do NOT have VPN access to the on-premises network. You need to provide the remote users with single sign-on (SSO) access to WebApp1. Which two features should you include in the solution? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

   1. Azure AD Application Proxy
   2. Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
   3. Conditional Access policies
   4. Azure Arc
   5. Azure AD enterprise applications
   6. Azure Application Gateway

   Azure AD Application Proxy provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications without requiring a VPN. It supports Integrated Windows Authentication for SSO. The application needs to be registered as an Azure AD enterprise application to be published through Application Proxy. PIM is for privileged access management, Azure Arc manages hybrid resources, and Application Gateway is for application delivery and load balancing.
4. Q4 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   You have an Azure AD tenant named contoso.com that has a security group named Group1. Group1 is configured for assigned memberships. Group1 has 50 members, including 20 guest users. You need to recommend a solution for evaluating the membership of Group1. The solution must meet the following requirements:

   • The evaluation must be repeated automatically every three months.
   • Every member must be able to report whether they need to be in Group1.
   • Users who report that they do not need to be in Group1 must be removed from Group1 automatically.
   • Users who do not report whether they need to be in Group1 must be removed from Group1 automatically.

   What should you include in the recommendation?

   1. Implement Microsoft Entra ID Protection.
   2. Change the Membership type of Group1 to Dynamic User.
   3. Create an access review.
   4. Implement Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM).

   Microsoft Entra ID access reviews support recurring schedules (e.g., every three months), self-attestation by group members, and automatic removal of users who either report they don't need access or fail to respond. Dynamic User groups automate membership based on rules but don't support self-reporting. ID Protection detects risk-based events. PIM manages privileged role assignments, not regular group memberships.
5. Q5 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   Your company has an Azure AD tenant integrated with Microsoft 365 and an Azure subscription. The company has an on-premises identity infrastructure including AD DS and Azure AD Connect. The company has a partnership with Fabrikam, which has its own Active Directory forest and Microsoft 365 tenant. A team of 10 developers from Fabrikam will work on an Azure solution hosted in your Azure subscription. The developers must be added to the Contributor role for a resource group. You need to recommend a solution to assign the role to the Fabrikam developers, ensuring they use their existing credentials. What should you recommend?

   1. In your Azure AD tenant, create cloud-only user accounts for the Fabrikam developers.
   2. Configure a forest trust between the on-premises Active Directory forests.
   3. Configure an organization relationship between the Microsoft 365 tenants.
   4. In your Azure AD tenant, create guest accounts for the Fabrikam developers.

   Azure AD B2B collaboration allows you to invite external users as guest accounts. Guest users authenticate using their home tenant credentials and can be assigned RBAC roles (such as Contributor) in your subscription. A forest trust is for internal Active Directory security, not cross-organization Azure access. Creating cloud-only accounts would require separate credentials.
6. Q6 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   You are developing an app that will read activity logs for an Azure subscription by using Azure Functions. You need to recommend an authentication solution for Azure Functions. The solution must minimize administrative effort. What should you include in the recommendation?

   1. An enterprise application in Azure AD
   2. System-assigned managed identities
   3. Shared access signatures (SAS)
   4. Application registration in Azure AD

   System-assigned managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Azure AD for Azure resources. The Azure Functions app can use this identity to authenticate to Azure services without managing credentials. Managed identities eliminate the need for developers to handle credentials, keys, or secrets. Enterprise applications and app registrations require manual credential management.
7. Q7 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   You need to recommend a solution to generate a monthly report of all new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) resource deployments in your Azure subscription. What should you include in the recommendation?

   1. Azure Log Analytics
   2. Azure Arc
   3. Azure Analysis Services
   4. Application Insights

   The Azure Activity Log captures all subscription-level events including resource creation, modification, and deletion. By creating a diagnostic setting to send Activity Log data to a Log Analytics workspace, you can query and generate reports on new ARM deployments over any time period. Log Analytics provides rich KQL query capabilities for custom reporting. Activity Log data is retained for 90 days by default; Log Analytics extends retention to up to 2 years.
8. Q8 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   Your company has multiple divisions. Sub1 contains an Azure App Service web app named App1. App1 uses Azure AD for single-tenant user authentication. Users from contoso.com can authenticate to App1. You need to recommend a solution to enable users in the fabrikam.com tenant to authenticate to App1. What should you recommend?

   1. Configure the Azure AD provisioning service.
   2. Enable Azure AD pass-through authentication and update the sign-in endpoint.
   3. Use Azure AD entitlement management to govern external users.
   4. Configure Azure AD join.

   Entitlement management is an identity governance feature that enables organizations to manage identity and access lifecycle at scale. It allows delegated non-admins to create access packages that external users from other organizations can request. Multi-stage approval workflows, time-limited access, and recurring reviews can be configured. For multi-tenant scenarios where you want Fabrikam users to access App1, entitlement management with access packages provides the most governance-friendly approach. Simply changing the app registration to multi-tenant (another valid approach) or provisioning service are alternatives but don't provide the governance controls.
9. Q9 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

   A company needs to implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all administrator accounts while exempting emergency access accounts. What should you configure in Microsoft Entra ID?

   1. Enable Security Defaults for the tenant
   2. Create a Conditional Access policy targeting directory roles with emergency account exclusions
   3. Enforce MFA at the user settings level for each administrator
   4. Deploy Microsoft Entra ID Protection with user risk policies

   Conditional Access policies provide granular control over authentication requirements. By creating a policy that targets directory roles (such as Global Administrator) and explicitly excluding emergency access (break-glass) accounts, you enforce MFA for administrators while preserving emergency access. Security Defaults enforce MFA for all users indiscriminately. User-level MFA settings are difficult to manage at scale and don't support exclusions easily.
10. Q10 Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%)

    You need to provide temporary privileged access to contractors for specific Azure resources, with automatic revocation after 30 days. Which solution should you implement?

    1. Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) with time-bound assignments
    2. Custom role definitions with expiration dates
    3. Azure Policy to audit privileged access
    4. Azure AD Access Reviews with quarterly reviews

    Microsoft Entra PIM provides just-in-time privileged access with time-bound assignments. Eligible assignments can be configured to expire automatically after a specified duration (e.g., 30 days). When the assignment expires, access is automatically revoked. Custom roles do not natively support time-bound access. Azure Policy only audits, it cannot control access. Access Reviews require manual action for revocation.

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