A team is implementing a cache-aside pattern for a read-heavy application. When a cache miss occurs, what should the application do?

Load the data from the data store, add it to the cache, and return it to the caller.

Automatically invalidate the entire cache and reload all data.

Ignore the cache and always read directly from the data store.

Return an error to the user and wait for the cache to be populated by a background job.

A company is building a public API for partners. They need to support multiple API versions and provide a developer portal for documentation. They also want to enforce rate limits per subscription and require OAuth2 authentication. Which Azure service should they use?

Azure App Service with API apps

Azure Front Door with API routing

Azure Functions with HTTP triggers

A web application experiences high latency when reading frequently accessed product data from a relational database. The architect wants to reduce database load and improve response times. Which caching strategy should the architect recommend?

Increase the database performance tier to handle the load.

Store the data in Azure Table Storage instead of the relational database.

Cache the data in Azure Cache for Redis with a time-based expiration.

Use Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to cache the database queries.

An organization uses GitHub Actions for CI/CD and wants to deploy a containerized application to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Which type of GitHub Actions artifact should they use to define the deployment workflow?

An Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template in the templates folder

A PowerShell script in the scripts folder

A YAML workflow file in the .github/workflows directory

A Dockerfile in the root of the repository

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Domain 4Objective 2

Design an Application Architecture AZ-305 Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Design infrastructure solutions domain, which makes up ~32% of our current practice bank. Microsoft does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~16–26 in this domain), expect 4–7 from this objective — we provide 26 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 16–20

16foundation · easy
An application needs to store a database connection string that contains a password. The architect wants to ensure the secret is protected with encryption and access is audited. Which Azure service should be used to store this secret?
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17foundation · easy
A team is implementing a cache-aside pattern for a read-heavy application. When a cache miss occurs, what should the application do?
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18application · medium
A company is building a public API for partners. They need to support multiple API versions and provide a developer portal for documentation. They also want to enforce rate limits per subscription and require OAuth2 authentication. Which Azure service should they use?
Select an answer first
19foundation · easy
A web application experiences high latency when reading frequently accessed product data from a relational database. The architect wants to reduce database load and improve response times. Which caching strategy should the architect recommend?
Select an answer first
20foundation · easy
An organization uses GitHub Actions for CI/CD and wants to deploy a containerized application to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Which type of GitHub Actions artifact should they use to define the deployment workflow?
Select an answer first

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