Five domains, with weights set by Microsoft’s July 2026 update. Microsoft's own skill-group wording appears verbatim under each domain below, taken straight from the official skills outline, so you always know which domain a topic sits in and where the gaps are.
Design and implement core networking infrastructurePublished weight 25–30%
179 exam-scoped practice questions in the app
Explore Core topics
- Design and implement IP addressing for Azure resources
- Design and implement name resolution
- Design and implement VNet connectivity and routing
- Monitor networks
- Tests IP addressing, DNS, VNet connectivity, and routing as the foundation every other domain builds on.
- Candidates treat hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN as always interchangeable regardless of how many spokes exist.
- Match the number of branch sites in the scenario to hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN before answering.
Design, implement, and manage connectivity servicesPublished weight 20–25%
137 exam-scoped practice questions in the app
Explore Connectivity topics
- Design, implement, and manage a site-to-site VPN connection
- Design, implement, and manage a point-to-site VPN connection
- Design, implement, and manage Azure ExpressRoute
- Design and implement an Azure Virtual WAN architecture
- Site-to-site VPN, point-to-site VPN, ExpressRoute, and Virtual WAN are tested here as four separate hybrid-connectivity skills.
- A familiar VPN option gets picked even when the scenario's bandwidth or SLA requirement actually calls for ExpressRoute.
- Check the scenario's throughput and reliability numbers before choosing between VPN and ExpressRoute options.
Design and implement application delivery servicesPublished weight 15–20%
113 exam-scoped practice questions in the app
Explore Delivery topics
- Design and implement Azure Load Balancer and Azure Traffic Manager
- Design and implement Azure Application Gateway
- Design and implement Azure Front Door
- Tests choosing Load Balancer, Application Gateway, or Front Door for a stated global or regional requirement.
- Candidates reach for a regional service on a clearly global requirement, or the reverse.
- Look for the words global or regional and Layer 4 or Layer 7 before picking a delivery service.
Design and implement private access to Azure servicesPublished weight 10–15%
64 exam-scoped practice questions in the app
Explore Access topics
- Design and implement Azure Private Link service and Azure private endpoints
- Design and implement service endpoints
- Whenever public exposure has to be removed entirely, choosing a private endpoint over a service endpoint is the judgement call.
- Picking the cheaper service endpoint even when the scenario says no public exposure at all is the trap to avoid.
- Reach for Private Link whenever the stem rules out any public IP on the resource.
Design and implement Azure network security servicesPublished weight 15–20%
116 exam-scoped practice questions in the app
Explore Security topics
- Implement and manage network security groups
- Design and implement Azure Firewall and Azure Firewall Manager
- Design and implement a Web Application Firewall (WAF) deployment
- NSGs, Azure Firewall, Firewall Manager, and WAF each do a different job, and telling them apart is the point.
- The WAF story differing slightly between Application Gateway and Azure Front Door is easy to forget.
- Check which product, Application Gateway or Front Door, the WAF question is actually describing.