A Intensive 6-week study plan for Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) covers roughly 120 hours at ~20 hours per week across the published 4 exam domains. This pace is demanding for AZ-305 — 20+ hours per week is effectively a part-time job on top of your day-to-day work. Best when your exam is locked in and you can clear evenings and weekends.
Visual preview of how exclam.ai distributes 6 weeks across the 4 AZ-305 domains, plus review and mock phases. Adjust the start date and review week to match your exam timeline.
A 6-week AZ-305 plan walks the 4 domains in syllabus order. Heavier domains get more time; lighter ones may pair with adjacent material on intensive paces. Review and mock phases follow the coverage modules.
Cover Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25-30%), Design data storage solutions (20-25%) in this week — paired because their individual weights are light or the intensive pace requires combining adjacent syllabus sections. Read each objective, flashcard the key formulas, and run one quiz across the group before moving on.
Cover Design business continuity solutions end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Cover Design infrastructure solutions end-to-end. Build flashcards covering every learning objective and quiz yourself before moving to the next module.
Weak-topic drilling. exclam.ai surfaces topics where you underperformed during coverage and re-quizzes them. Daily FSRS flashcard reps across all 4 topics to prevent decay. Start doing timed question batches focused on the heaviest-weight sections.
Full-length AZ-305 practice exams under timed conditions. Target one mock every 3–5 days. Same-day error review: for every question you miss, re-derive the solution from scratch. Taper in the final 3 days — light flashcards only.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert has 4 domains. This plan allocates time across all of them, weighted by the published exam weights from the AZ-305 exam guide.
Source: official AZ-305 exam guide published by Microsoft Azure.
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