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Azure Services Deep Dive Questions

In depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure platform services, architecture trade offs, operational considerations, and best practices. Candidates should be able to discuss compute options such as Azure Virtual Machines sizing, availability sets and zones, maintenance windows, and scale sets; storage options including Azure Storage account types, redundancy and replication choices, and backup strategies; database offerings such as Azure SQL Database, managed instances, high availability and replication patterns; networking fundamentals including Azure Virtual Network design, subnetting, network security groups, peering, service endpoints and private links, and load balancing with Application Gateway and Azure Load Balancer; container orchestration and related considerations such as Azure Kubernetes Service concepts, cluster sizing, upgrades, and networking models; serverless and platform services such as Azure Functions and event driven architectures; infrastructure as code and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and templates; identity and secrets management with Azure Active Directory and Azure Key Vault including secret rotation; monitoring, logging, and cost optimization strategies; and security, compliance, and disaster recovery planning across these services. Interview evaluation focuses on architectural reasoning, trade off analysis, operational runbook concerns, scaling and performance tuning, failure modes and recovery, and automation using provider native tooling.

MediumTechnical
83 practiced
Technical exercise (Terraform): Write a concise Terraform module (main.tf and variables.tf) that creates an Azure Virtual Network with two subnets (app and db), applies a Network Security Group to the app subnet allowing HTTP/HTTPS and denies everything else, and tags all resources with environment and owner. Describe how you'd structure module outputs and manage remote state securely.
MediumTechnical
149 practiced
Kusto Query task: Using Log Analytics table 'AzureDiagnostics', write a Kusto Query to return the top 5 resources producing the most 'Error' level logs in the last 24 hours, with counts and percentage of total errors. Provide the query and explain how you'd convert it into an alert rule.
EasyTechnical
80 practiced
Compare Azure SQL options: single database, elastic pool, managed instance, and SQL Server on Azure VM. For each option, discuss managed capabilities (patching/backups), networking (VNet integration), scale limits, migration complexity from on-prem, and typical customer scenarios where you would recommend each.
MediumTechnical
99 practiced
Explain built-in high availability features of Azure SQL Database (PaaS). Describe how to implement read scale-out, automated backups, long-term retention, and cross-region failover using Auto-Failover Groups. What are the trade-offs between using active geo-replication vs. automatic failover groups for business continuity?
MediumSystem Design
96 practiced
Design a hub-and-spoke network architecture for a global enterprise with central security controls in the hub and multiple spoke VNets for apps across regions. Include ExpressRoute/VPN connectivity from on-prem, firewall placement (Azure Firewall vs NVA), VNet peering vs hub routing, and how to manage transitive routing and costs.

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