Is AZ-305 certification suitable for my career growth?

Hello, MallikarjunaMocherla.

Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Community, we are glad to help you!

As we understand from your post, you want to know if the AZ-305 is a suitable certification for your career.

The AZ-305 exam is part of the requirements of the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, this is an expert certification and requires you to have previously earned the certifications AZ-104 Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, which is an intermediate certification.

You will have to start earning the AZ-104 first, this is some important information about becoming an Azure Administrator Associate:

As an Azure administrator, you often serve as part of a larger team dedicated to implementing an organization's cloud infrastructure. You also coordinate with other roles to deliver Azure networking, security, database, application development, and DevOps solutions.

You should be familiar with:

• Operating systems

• Networking

• Servers

• Virtualization

In addition, you should have experience with:

• PowerShell

• Azure CLI

• The Azure portal

• Azure Resource Manager templates

• Microsoft Entra ID

In the following page, you can find all courses and learning paths available at Microsoft, you can filter by level (beginner/intermediate/expert), roles (developer/functional consultat, etc.), product (Azure, Microsoft 365, Visual studio, etc.). Please take a look and if you require further assistance do not hesitate to contact us.

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