AZ-305 decision sheets

• ADF vs Databricks vs Synapse: which data platform?
• Application Insights: workspace-based, and where OpenTelemetry fits
• Containers: AKS vs Container Apps vs Container Instances
• Cosmos DB: which API?
• Cosmos DB consistency: Strong, Bounded, Session or Eventual?
• Azure Functions: which hosting plan?
• Load Balancer vs Application Gateway vs Front Door vs Traffic Manager
• Service Bus vs Storage Queues vs Event Grid vs Event Hubs
• Azure Monitor alerts: metric vs log search vs activity log
• Monitoring data: workspace design and where logs land
• PIM: Entra ID roles vs Azure resource roles - who manages what
• Private Endpoint vs Service Endpoint
• RBAC: how Azure actually decides yes or no
• Azure SQL Database vs SQL Managed Instance
• Azure SQL: zone redundancy vs failover groups vs geo-replication
• Storage redundancy: GZRS vs RA-GRS - and the support gaps
• VM Scale Sets: Flexible vs Uniform - and when Batch takes the job
• VPN Gateway vs ExpressRoute (and when neither is enough)