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The original was posted on /r/azurecertification by /u/pred135 on 2023-09-30 13:16:12.

Took about 2 weeks te prep for the exam, used a course on Pluralsight for mainly the area’s I didn’t know about (SQL, Synapse analytics, Data factory) and used Whizlabs practice exams.

I scored an 800, but I wasn’t sure I would pass during the exam. I had 1 case in the beginning and then 41 questions after that, followed by 6/7 questions on whether a solution would solve a scenario.

The exam actually wasn’t that hard, way easier than the 104, and 1000% easier than the 400 exam. But holy shit were there a lot of questions about SQL and Storage, it didn’t even feel like a solution architect exam, but more like a database admin exam or something. I would guess a good 60% of the questions were only on SQL and Storage, and that wouldn’t be far off. Maybe 2 questions on networking (the thing i’m actually good at lol), couple of things about compute (couple of VM questions, 2 container questions), and like 2/3 questions on Data factory, nothing on databricks. Did have a few questions about Synapse analytics. And that was pretty much the exam.

As for the Whizlabs practice exams, DO NOT BUY THEM, idk what else you should buy, but skip these. The reason is because a lot of questions are written/worded poorly, and there were a few instances of wrong answers, it has a community feedback feature per question, and there would be dicussions on the correct answer in the comments, not helpfull when I am just trying to learn and now I don’t even know what the actual correct answer is here, very confusing.

I passed my 104, 400 and now 305 in a span of 3/4 months, I am done with Microsoft for now for a bit XD and will try going for the Togaf certs, but after that I will come back and go for the AZ-700, AZ-500 and we’ll see after that.