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Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty certification validates your expertise in designing, building, testing, and optimizing Azure Cosmos DB solutions
- 100 min
- 70% to pass
- 60 bank questions
- 5 domains
Exam syllabus, organized by domain
The official Microsoft blueprint, with the real weight each domain carries on test day.
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Sample Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty exam question
Answer this question the same way you would on exam day. No sign-up needed — one random question, three tries to swap it out.
An organization stores sensitive customer attributes in Azure Cosmos DB SQL API. The data must be encrypted at rest and in transit by the platform, but specific sensitive fields must also be unreadable to database administrators. Which additional control is required?
Exam facts at a glance
Every figure below comes from the certification record or from the question bank itself.
- Time limit
- 100 minutes
- Passing score
- 70%
- Domains
- 5
- Questions in our bank
- 60
- Level
- ASSOCIATE
- Measured complexity
- 2.0 / 10
- Question mix
- 22 single · 21 multi · 17 interactive
Where the hard questions actually are
We score every question in the bank 1-10 on a reproducible formula. Below is the per-domain breakdown.
- Design and implement data distribution5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive
- Design and implement data models23 questions · complexity 2.2/10 · Gentle
39% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive
- Integrate an Azure Cosmos DB solution5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive
- Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution16 questions · complexity 1.9/10 · Gentle
31% multi-select · 0% scenario · 31% interactive
- Optimize an Azure Cosmos DB solution11 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
36% multi-select · 0% scenario · 27% interactive
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Frequently asked questions
What you need to know before attempting the Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty certification.