JITA Learning · Microsoft · Field Guide
AZ-305 · Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
Build working judgment for Azure solution architecture.
What you should expect
Build working judgment for Azure solution architecture.
This Field Guide develops a working mental model of Azure solution architecture. You will connect design identity, governance, monitoring, and management architecture, choose data storage, integration, and data-platform approaches based on workload requirements, select compute, application, container, and serverless architecture patterns, and design business continuity, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery. You are not just memorizing feature names; you are learning what owns the requirement, what can fail, and how to verify the outcome.
What you will learn
- design identity, governance, monitoring, and management architecture
- choose data storage, integration, and data-platform approaches based on workload requirements
- select compute, application, container, and serverless architecture patterns
- design business continuity, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery
- recognize why one technically plausible alternative loses under the stated requirement
- apply Changed Fact reasoning and verify the design or implementation through operational evidence
Decision skills you will practice
- identify the governing requirement
- compare the nearest plausible alternative
- apply Changed Fact reasoning
- trace prerequisites, dependencies, and failure paths
- verify configured state, effective state, runtime outcome, and negative-path evidence
Who this is for
solution architects who need to translate business and technical requirements into resilient, governed Azure designs
Use this when you need to learn the architecture, mechanics, dependencies, tradeoffs, failure paths, and verification logic behind the certification.
Decisions you will learn to distinguish
- technical possibility vs architecture fit
- high availability vs disaster recovery
- service feature match vs end-to-end requirement ownership
Why JITA is different
Microsoft explains the platform. JITA teaches the decision.
Microsoft Learn explains the services, features, and documented behavior that support Azure solution architecture. JITA connects those capabilities into decisions: what owns the requirement, what the nearest alternative is, what changes when one fact changes, and what evidence proves the implementation worked.
How to choose:
Use the Field Guide to build understanding. Use the Exam Preparation Guide to test whether that understanding survives exam-style decisions.