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The AZ-900 exam costs $99 per attempt in the United States and a different price in each other region, you pass at 700 on a 1 to 1,000 scaled score, and a failed attempt costs another full fee plus the retake waiting periods. Each number is checked against Microsoft's own pages, so you can set a budget and pick a booking date from the official numbers.

A scenario-based AZ-305 guide for choosing rehost, replatform, refactor, or rearchitect without over-modernizing migration prompts.

Use Private Link on AZ-305 when the design needs a private IP for a specific PaaS resource. Service endpoints cover a VNet reaching a supported Azure service.

The DNS path decides the AZ-305 Private Link design. One zone owns the record, linked VNets resolve it directly, and other clients route through a forwarder.

Pick the Azure load-balancing service from the traffic the scenario states: its scope (global, regional, or internal), its protocol (HTTP(S) or TCP/UDP), and its routing layer (Layer 7 or Layer 4).

An AZ-305 customer-managed-key recommendation puts the key in Key Vault, gives the account a managed identity, and turns on soft delete and purge protection.

Encrypted over the internet points to VPN Gateway. A private path with predictable latency points to ExpressRoute, and many branches point to Virtual WAN.

Azure Migrate is the answer while the target is still being decided. DMS is the answer when the scenario moves data to a named target inside a downtime window.

A scenario-based AZ-305 guide for choosing Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, and Table Storage without memorizing service names.

In an AZ-305 cost-governance scenario, the job the requirement names picks the control, from Policy for the tag rule to budgets for the spend alert.

Azure VMware Solution is the right target when the scenario must keep the VMware operating model. Azure VMs or PaaS is the answer when workloads can modernize.