AZ-500 exam format: domains, weightings and length
Microsoft Azure Security Engineer AZ-500 (retired) is examined across 4 domains. The weightings below decide how much of the exam each domain is worth — and therefore where preparation time pays off.
Domains and weightings
| Domain | Exam weight | Our questions |
|---|---|---|
| Manage security operations | 32.5% | 137 |
| Secure compute, storage, and databases | 22.5% | 132 |
| Secure networking | 22.5% | 105 |
| Manage identity and access | 17.5% | 126 |
The weightings add up to 95%, not 100% — the vendor publishes ranges and these are the midpoints. We show them as published rather than rounding them up.
Length and number of questions
- Time: 100 minutes
- Questions: about 50 according to the vendor — the vendor gives a range rather than a fixed count, so treat this as approximate.
- Passing score: 700 on a scale of 1–1000 — what AZ-500 needs to pass →
Question formats in our AZ-500 bank
These are the formats among the 500 AZ-500 questions we publish. They describe our bank, not the vendor's blueprint.
- single choice: 499 questions
- multi choice: 1 questions
All 500 AZ-500 practice questions, every option explained →
Know which domain is costing you marks
The weightings tell you what the exam rewards. A readiness check tells you where you stand in each one.
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Domain weightings as published by the exam vendor · Question counts are from the Certsqill AZ-500 bank (500 questions).
