Developer Interview Questions & Answers

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🔹 Introduction to Cloud & Azure

Q. What is Cloud computing? Why Cloud Computing?
Q. On-Premises Computing vs Cloud Computing
Q. What are Cloud Providers?
Q. What is Azure? Why Azure? Azure Advantages
Q. What are the 5 advantages of using Azure over on-premises server?
Q. What are the main cloud service models? Explain the difference between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS with Azure example?
Q. What is Azure Portal? What are the top 20 Azure services?
Q. What are the types of cloud computing?
Q. Introduction to Cloud & Azure - Scenario Based

🔹 Azure Resource Manager

Q. What is a Resource in Azure? How is it different from a Service in Azure?
Q. What are Resource Groups in Azure? Why do we use them in projects?
Q. How do you decide which resources to keep in the same resource group?
Q. What are Azure Subscriptions? (Very Important)
Q. How does access control differ between Subscription level and Resource Group level?
Q. What are Management Groups in Azure? Can you give an example?
Q. What is Azure Resource Manager, and what is its role?
Q. Can you explain Azure Regions and Availability Zones? How are they different?
Q. Resource vs Resource Group vs Subscription
Q. Scenario-based real application questions

🔹 Azure Compute Services

Q. What are Azure Compute Services? Name a few of them?
Q. What are Azure Virtual Machines? When would you use them in a project?
Q. What are the differences between horizontal and vertical scaling? When to use what?
Q. What are VM Scale Sets? When will you use them in your project?
Q. What is Azure App Service? For what purpose can you use them?
Q. What are the 5 main features or advantages of using Azure App Services?
Q. What is the difference between Azure VMs and Azure App Services? When to use what?
Q. Imagine your application gets more traffic on weekends and less on weekdays. How would you handle that in Azure?
Q. What are different ways to deploy apps in Azure?
Q. What are Deployment Slots in App Service? Why are they useful?
Q. Scenario-based real application questions

🔹 Azure Storage Services

Q. What is Azure Storage? What are the types of Azure Storage?
Q. Explain Azure Blob Storage? When would you use it in your project?
Q. Explain Azure File Storage? When would you use it in your project?
Q. Explain Azure Table Storage? When would you use it in your project?
Q. Explain Azure Queue Storage? When would you use it in a project?
Q. What format is used to store messages in Azure Queue Storage?
Q. What is Azure Disk Storage, and how does it support VMs?
Q. What are the different disk types available in Azure?
Q. Scenario based Real Application Questions

🔹 Azure Functions

Q. What are Azure Functions? Have you ever used them in your project? Why?
Q. Why not include the Azure Function code directly within the main application?
Q. What exactly is Serverless in Azure? Is it truly server-less?
Q. What are Triggers in Azure Functions? Can you name a few types?
Q. What are the important steps to write code of an Azure Function? Share example?
Q. How do you deploy an Azure Function to the cloud?
Q. Which services of Azure are serverless?
Q. What is the difference between Azure Function and Function App?
Q. What are Azure Logic Apps?
Q. Automation flow in Azure Logic Apps?
Q. How are Azure Logic Apps different from Azure Functions? When to use what?
Q. Scenario-based real application questions

🔹 Azure Database Services

Q. What is Azure SQL Database? How is it different from regular SQL Server?
Q. What is the difference between Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure SQL Database?
Q. What is Azure Cosmos DB? When should you use it in your project?
Q. What is NoSQL?
Q. What is the difference between NoSQL and SQL?
Q. When should you use Azure SQL (RDBMS) and when Azure Cosmos (NoSQL) in your project?
Q. Scenario-based real application questions

🔹 DevOps CI/CD & IaC

Q. What is DevOps and Azure DevOps? What is the difference?
Q. What is a CI/CD pipeline? How have you used it in your project?
Q. What are the main components of Azure DevOps?
Q. How are Azure Boards and Azure Repos used in Azure DevOps?
Q. What are Azure Pipelines? How do they help with automation in projects?
Q. What are Azure Test Plans and Azure Artifacts?
Q. What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)? Explain how it works?
Q. What are the benefits of using IaC? Is there any time when you would not use it?
Q. Scenario-based real application questions

🔹 Identity Security & Access

Q. What is Azure Active Directory? How is it different from on-prem AD?
Q. What are Authentication and Authorization?
Q. What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in Azure?
Q. What is Azure Key Vault? Share an example of when you used it in your project?
Q. What is Service Principal in Azure?
Q. What is Managed Identity in Azure?
Q. How do you securely connect Azure services without credentials?
Q. What is Azure API Management (APIM)? Why and when should you use it?
Q. Scenario-based real application questions

🔹 Monitoring & Logs

Q. What is Azure Monitor? How does it help developers?
Q. What is Application Insights in Azure?
Q. What is the difference between Metrics, Logs, and Application Insights?
Q. What types of application issues can you troubleshoot using Azure Application Insights?
Q. What is KQL (Kusto Query Language)? How does it help developers?
Q. Scenario-based real application questions

🔹 Event-Driven Messaging

Q. What is Azure Service Bus? Share a real-world example of how it is used?
Q. What is a Message Broker? Share a real-world example?
Q. What is the format in which a message is stored in Azure Service Bus?
Q. What is the Pub-Sub model in Azure Service Bus?
Q. What is a Topic in Azure Service Bus? What is the difference between Topic and Queue?
Q. What is Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) in Azure Service Bus?
Q. What is Azure SignalR Service?
Q. What is the difference between Azure SignalR Service and Azure Service Bus?
Q. What is the role of Azure Event Grid? When should you use it in projects?
Q. Explain the difference between Azure Functions, Event Grid, Event Hubs, and Service Bus. When should each be used?
Q. Scenario-based real application questions

🔹 Azure Performance Optimization

Q. How do you design highly available applications in Azure?
Q. What are the 10 best practices for application developers working on Azure?
Q. Share 5 ways to improve performance or reduce the latency of applications?
Q. What are the key factors to consider when designing a scalable application in Azure?

🔹 Networking

Q. What is a Virtual Network (VNet) in Azure? Why do we need it?
Q. How are applications hosted on VMs inside a VNet accessible to outside users?
Q. What is the difference between Private IP and Public IP in Azure?
Q. What is the role of Azure Load Balancer?
Q. What is the role of Azure Application Gateway?
Q. When should you use Azure Load Balancer and when should you use Application Gateway?
Q. How can Load Balancer and Application Gateway be used together in Azure?
Q. What is Azure Traffic Manager? How does it manage global traffic?
Q. What is a Subnet in Azure? What’s the purpose of using it?
Q. What are Network Security Groups (NSGs)?
Q. What is the difference between Application Gateway and NSG?
Q. What is Azure CDN? When and why should you use it?
Q. What is Azure Front Door?
Q. What is the difference between Azure Front Door and Azure Traffic Manager?

🔹 Real-Time Analytics

Q. What is Click Stream Analysis? How is it useful?
Q. What are Azure Event Hubs? When do we use them in our projects?
Q. What is Azure Stream Analytics? Can you explain a basic use case?
Q. What is Azure Data Lake Storage? When should you use it?
Q. What is Big Data Analytics? What is the role of Azure Synapse Analytics?
Q. Summarize the click stream analysis steps and tools?

🔹 Azure Cognitive Services & ML

Q. What are Azure Cognitive Services?
Q. Share the names of some Azure Cognitive Services?
Q. What is Azure Machine Learning Service? How does it work?

🔹 Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipeline

Q. What is Docker?
Q. Why is Docker used in a CI/CD pipeline?
Q. Docker vs Virtual Machine (VM) comparison?
Q. What is Kubernetes? How does it work?
Q. Docker vs Kubernetes
Q. What are Cluster, Node, and Pod in Kubernetes?
Q. What is Terraform?
Q. What is a CI/CD Pipeline?
Q. What is an Azure Pipeline YAML file?

🔹 Azure Durable Functions

Q. What are Azure Durable Functions? Why do we use Durable Functions? Give a real-world example.
Q. What is the difference between Azure Normal Functions and Durable Functions?
Q. What is a Durable Orchestrator?
Q. What is the difference between Orchestrator Functions and Activity Functions?
Q. What is the execution order of Activity Functions in Durable Functions?

🔹 Practical Examples

Q. JWT Token Authentication with Azure Entra ID (Azure AD) in .NET Core API
Q. Azure Trigger Function – Blob Trigger in .NET Core with example

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