GregLab | Exam Prep

Integration

Core

Azure Event Hubs

High-throughput event ingestion and streaming platform.

Key points

  • Event Hubs ingests high-volume event streams into partitions for independent consumers.
  • Partition-key choice, retention, throughput, and consumer-group positions shape ordering and replay behavior.

Best-known use cases

  • Stream telemetry or diagnostic records continuously to analytics or an external platform.

What candidates often confuse it with

  • Event Hubs is a retained event stream; Event Grid routes discrete notifications and Service Bus handles enterprise messages.

Key takeaway

Choose Event Hubs for continuous high-throughput ingestion with independently progressing consumers.

Relevant exam tasks

  • D1.1.S2 — Recommend a solution for routing logs
  • D2.3.S1 — Recommend a solution for data integration
  • D4.2.S2 — Recommend an event-driven architecture

Learn more

Free Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert prep

Build focused AZ-305 quizzes from skill areas, topics, and product references.

Practice with exam-style multiple-choice and multiple-response questions, score breakdowns, explanations, and a compact reference for this lane's official exam domains.

Read Topics Build a quiz

Exam Weights

Exam snapshot

AZ-305 at a glance

Level
Expert
Duration
No fixed live duration published
Questions
No fixed live question count published
Formats
No guaranteed question-type mix
Scoring
Scaled score; 700 minimum passing score

Quiz builder

Choose your practice set

Mode

Exam fidelity: Microsoft does not publish a fixed live question count or guarantee a question-type mix for AZ-305. This lane contains multiple-choice exam-style practice; no supplemental matching, ordering, or case-study exercises were needed. Practice percentages do not reproduce Microsoft's scaled scoring, and difficulty labels describe this site's Expert-level architecture and trade-off complexity rather than a Microsoft-published question rating.

Reference

AZ-305 topics and reference map

Study links

AZ-305 resources