My AZ-305 Beta Exam Testing Experience

I took for the AZ-305 beta exam Thursday, December 16, 2021. Here is my breakdown:

This is an expert-level exam!

I took the AZ-700 Azure Network Engineer Associate which was the hardest associate exam that I ever took and AZ-305 required way more thinking and Azure background knowledge than AZ-700.

I had 61 questions with 3 case studies at the end. That was why time management was a must! I reviewed each section after answering all of my questions. That helped because I had only 13 minutes left after this exam.

Proposed study to get to AZ-305

You will need the basics (AZ-900), DP-900 for the Big Data solutions and pipelines, SC-900 for Microsoft Security basics, AZ-104 which is mandatory for this Azure Architect Expert sequence, AZ-500 for Azure security especially Azure Identity Protection, Privilege Identity Management, conditional access policy and application security. Finally, you would need AZ-700 for Azure networking, app security, data security and container security.