u/feischi

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Everyone was saying AZ-305 after AZ-104 was a piece of cake. It's anything but a piece of cake. Maybe it was, but not anymore. Based on my own experience, combined with what I gather from the discussions on this sub, I believe MS has changed the question catalog in April and raised the bar.

For background, I passed AZ-104 2 months ago and didn't find it challenging at all. https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureCertification/comments/1sa6xre/another_az104_pass/

For AZ-305 I went through the official material, official video series. I did hands-on practice on a few services I was not familiar with. I scored consistently 90+ on TD, MU and the official mock exams. The real exam is on a completely different level. About 10% of the questions are covered in AZ-104, 30% I would consider straightforward. I spent significant amount of time on at least 20 questions to find obscure details on MS Learn. I had a case study of 6 questions and 45 normal questions. I finished with 3 minutes left, then I continued searching and confirming until the time ran out.

Two things I found the most helpful:

- Practice searching on MS Learn. This is the single most important skill you'll need during the exam, and you need it a lot!

- Use ChatGPT or Claude to build study guides. It summarizes key indicators like DB size limitations, RTO and RPO, HA features and so on. But note that since none of the official and popular information sources cover the topics at the same depth and breadth of the actual exam, the guides you build using these sources can only save you some time on a fraction of the questions.

My conclusion is that this is a cert for people who have been working as an Azure architect for some years and the job allowed them to gain experience in many services (Where can I practice VMWare ESXi cluster migration??). I attempted it because everyone around me was saying that it's a natural thing to do after AZ-104. It is in fact far from my line of work and most of the knowledge I gained in the process will not be useful in the near future.

I am just happy it's over. Now I can focus on more interesting topics.

Wish you luck, my friends.