
Pass rate
Azure Solutions Architect Expert Pass Rate
The score you need to pass the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.
- 70% to pass
- 60 questions
- 2.1/10 difficulty
The number you need to hit
Published cut score for this certification.
Pass score vs pass rate
Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.
Pass score (cut score)
The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the Azure Solutions Architect Expert it is 70%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.
Pass rate (percentage of candidates)
The share of candidates who pass. Microsoft generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.
Where you lose points
The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.
Losing this domain entirely costs you 22% of the exam, and it has 13 practice questions here.
Losing this domain entirely costs you 32% of the exam, and it has 19 practice questions here.
Losing this domain entirely costs you 18% of the exam, and it has 11 practice questions here.
Losing this domain entirely costs you 28.000000000000004% of the exam, and it has 17 practice questions here.
The practical version: the Azure Solutions Architect Expert is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.
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