Azure Solutions Architect Expert

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Azure Solutions Architect Expert

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We scored 60 real Azure Solutions Architect Expert exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

60 questions scored
4 domains
2.1/10 overall complexity

Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score2.1/10Gentle · measured across 60 bank questions
  • Design business continuity solutions11 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    36% multi-select · 0% scenario · 27% interactive

  • Design data storage solutions13 questions · complexity 2.1/10 · Gentle

    31% multi-select · 8% scenario · 31% interactive

  • Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions17 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    35% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive

  • Design infrastructure solutions19 questions · complexity 2.2/10 · Gentle

    32% multi-select · 11% scenario · 32% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Design business continuity solutions18%114432.0/10Gentle
Design data storage solutions22%135442.1/10Gentle
Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions28%176652.0/10Gentle
Design infrastructure solutions32%197662.2/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the Azure Solutions Architect Expert bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

  • Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
  • Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
  • Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
  • Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum Azure Solutions Architect Expert Foundation question bank, 60 questions, 4 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official Microsoft statistic.

Questions analysed
60
Exam domains
4
Hardest domain
Design infrastructure solutions (2.2)
Most approachable domain
Design business continuity solutions (2.0)
Question mix
22 single · 20 multi · 18 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our Azure Solutions Architect Expert complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.