📋 Governance and Compliance - AZ-305 Practice Questions

Design governance solutions including management groups, policy, blueprints, landing zones, and cost management.

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Browse all 5 practice questions covering Governance and Compliance for the AZ-305 certification exam. Answers are intentionally hidden on this page so you can self-test first before checking results in quiz mode.

  1. Question 1Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions

    An organisation deploys a new Azure Landing Zone. Which management group hierarchy component provides the governance boundary between different environments (sandbox, corp, online)?

    AAzure Blueprints
    BManagement groups with dedicated children for Sandbox, Corp (internal), and Online (internet-facing) workloads
    CSubscriptions per environment
    DAzure Policy initiatives per environment

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  2. Question 2Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions

    A company uses Azure Policy to enforce tagging and wants to understand the cost of non-compliance. Which Azure Cost Management feature shows per-tag cost breakdown?

    AAzure Advisor cost recommendations
    BAzure Cost Management cost analysis with tag filters and grouping
    CAzure Policy compliance report
    DAzure Monitor billing alerts

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  3. Question 3Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions

    An organisation has three Azure subscriptions under a management group. They assign an Azure Policy at the management group level. Which subscriptions and resource groups are affected?

    AOnly the management group itself
    BAll three subscriptions and all resource groups within them by inheritance
    COnly newly created subscriptions added after the assignment
    DOnly subscriptions explicitly opted in

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  4. Question 4Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions

    An architect needs to ensure that Azure resources are compliant with the company's naming convention (e.g., all storage accounts must start with 'corp'). Which Azure Policy effect enforces this at creation time?

    AAudit
    BDeny with a namePrefix condition in the policy rule
    CAppend
    DModify

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  5. Question 5Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions

    An architect must design an Azure governance structure for a company with three business units, each needing isolated billing and policy, but sharing some cross-cutting policies. Which management group structure achieves this?

    AOne subscription for all business units
    BA root management group with child management groups per business unit, plus a shared platform management group for cross-cutting policies
    COne subscription per team within each business unit
    DAzure Blueprints assigned to each subscription independently

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Key Governance Concepts for AZ-305

governancemanagement groupazure policyblueprintlanding zonenaming conventiontaggingcost management

AZ-305 Governance Exam Tips

Governance and Compliance questions in AZ-305 are typically scenario-based. Focus on solution architecture design, resilience, governance, and data platform trade-offs. Priority concepts: governance, management group, azure policy, blueprint, landing zone, naming convention.

What AZ-305 Expects

  • Anchor your answer in select architecture decisions that balance business continuity, performance, and governance.
  • Governance scenarios for AZ-305 are frequently mapped to Domain 1 (25-30%), so read the objective carefully before picking controls or architecture.
  • Expect multi-topic scenarios where Governance interacts with identity, networking, governance, or monitoring patterns rather than appearing as an isolated question.
  • When two options are both technically valid, prefer the choice that best aligns with the exam's operational scope (Expert) and vendor best practices.

High-Value Governance Concepts

  • Know the core Governance building blocks cold: governance, management group, azure policy, blueprint.
  • Review the edge-case features and limits for landing zone, naming convention; these details are commonly used to differentiate answer choices.
  • Practice service-integration reasoning: how Governance pairs with Identity, Monitoring in real deployment patterns.
  • For AZ-305, explain why the chosen Governance design meets reliability, security, and cost expectations better than the alternatives.

Common AZ-305 Traps

  • Watch for designing for feature completeness but not for resilience.
  • Questions in Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions often include distractors that look correct for Governance but violate least-privilege, compliance, or availability requirements.
  • Avoid picking options purely by feature name; validate data path, failure handling, and governance impact before answering.
  • If the prompt hints at automation or repeatability, eliminate manual-only operational answers first.

Fast Review Checklist

  • Can you compare at least two Governance implementation paths and justify which one best fits the scenario?
  • Can you map the chosen answer back to Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions (25-30%) outcomes for AZ-305?
  • Can you explain security and access boundaries for Governance without relying on default-open assumptions?
  • Can you describe how Governance integrates with Identity and Monitoring during failure, scaling, and monitoring events?

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