az-305 Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A healthcare company is migrating to Azure and needs to ensure that all resources comply with HIPAA requirements. They want to automatically prevent deployment of resources that don't meet compliance standards and receive alerts when configuration drift occurs. Which combination of Azure services should you recommend?

Your organization has multiple Azure subscriptions across different departments. You need to implement a solution that allows department managers to view costs for their resources while preventing them from seeing other departments' spending. The solution should also enable you to apply cost limits and send alerts when 80% of the budget is reached. What should you implement?

A company runs a web application that authenticates users against an on-premises Active Directory. As part of their Azure migration, they want users to access both cloud and on-premises applications with a single set of credentials, without managing separate password policies. Which solution should you recommend?

You are designing a storage solution for a media company that needs to store 500 TB of video files. The files are frequently accessed during the first 30 days after upload, occasionally accessed for the next 90 days, and rarely accessed afterward but must be retained for 7 years for compliance. The solution must minimize costs. What should you recommend?

A financial application requires a database solution that can handle 50,000 transactions per second with single-digit millisecond latency for reads and writes. The data needs to be globally distributed across three regions with automatic failover and strong consistency guarantees for financial transactions. Which Azure database service should you recommend?

Your company has a mission-critical three-tier application running in Azure across multiple availability zones. The application must maintain an RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 1 hour in case of a regional outage. The database is Azure SQL Database. What disaster recovery strategy should you implement?

A manufacturing company needs to protect their production VMs and ensure they can failover to a secondary region within 2 hours. They want to minimize costs by not running duplicate infrastructure in the secondary region during normal operations. Which solution provides the best balance of cost and recovery objectives?

You are designing a hybrid network architecture for a company migrating to Azure. The company has 10 branch offices that need to connect to Azure resources and to each other. They require encrypted connectivity with minimal management overhead and want to avoid deploying VPN devices at each branch. What should you recommend?

A company is deploying a containerized microservices application in Azure. The application has 15 services with varying resource requirements, needs automatic scaling based on HTTP requests, requires service discovery, and must expose only specific services to the internet. Which Azure service should you recommend?

Your organization needs to process real-time IoT data from 50,000 devices sending telemetry every 5 seconds. The solution must ingest the data, perform stream processing to detect anomalies, store processed data for analytics, and scale automatically. The analytics team will run complex queries on historical data. What architecture should you recommend?