Saturday 1 May 2021

Azure Interview Questions

1. Why might network route time be different within your Azure application?

Answer:  Azure prioritizes some routes over others.

2. Which of the following is a common practice for designing self healing systems in Azure?

Ans:  Embrace chaos engineering, which is intentionally injecting failures and abnormal conditions into your environment

3. What kind of access does a user need to provide feedback to your Azure application?

Ans: Stakeholder

4. What is HDInsight in Azure?

Ans: HDInsight is a could service which that makes it easy. It is fast and cost-effective to process a massive amount of data using with the help of open-source frameworks like Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Storm and R. HDInsight offers various type of scenarios which includes ETL, data warehousing, and Machine Learning. 

5. Where can you find why certain alerts were grouped into smart groups?

Ans:  The Smart Group Detail Page

6. How could you get a custom script extension to run after every time the VM is rebooted?

Ans: Use the extension to create a Windows scheduled task that runs on start-up

6. What types of data do Azure-monitoring tools (such as SolarWinds) monitor?

Ans: Metrics & Logs

7. Explain the term 'service fabric' in Azure?

Ans: Service fabric is a middleware platform which gives more scalable outcome. It mostly renders with a more managed and reliable enterprise.

8. Why would it be useful for a developer to track feature usage?

Ans: So that the developer can determine unused features and services for cost optimization

9. How would you store video or image feedback from users within Azure?

Ans: Use Azure Blob storage to store the unstructured data.

10. What are the three main components of Azure?

Ans: Compute, Storage, AppFabric

11. Name of the two blobs in Azure?

Ans: Block Blob and Page Blob

12. Which Azure tool visualizes user navigation within an application?

Ans: User Flows

13. You need to share your Azure Dashboard with other people in your organization. In order to best maintain your dashboard, what standard operating procedures should you implement before doing so?

Ans: Use Role-Based Access control. This allows you to control who can edit the dashboard and who only gets read access.

14. What is used to visually represent work items with columns to indicate progress in the software development lifecycle?

Ans:  Kanban Board

15. Within Azure DevOps, what defines the requirements, application, and elements that the development team needs from the user's feedback?

Ans: User Stories

16. Your company has undergone multiple outages to their applications hosted in Azure in the past few weeks. Each time, the company has been notified by a customer reporting the system is not accessible. What advice would you give to the company to be more proactive in finding out when outages occur?

Ans: Use Azure Application Insights and configure alarms to notify employees with a webhook or email when the application does not pass health checks.

17. How can you provide the ability to view exceptions for Azure applications and relate them to failed requests?

Ans: Application Insights

18. What functionality is provided by alerts in Microsoft Azure?

Ans: Alerts proactively notify you when important conditions are found in your monitoring data.

19. Which service offering monitors and detects anomalies such as poor performance and failures for your applications?

Ans: Application Insights

20. Your company is using the OData Analytics service in Azure to query and gain deeper insights on application data. What action does the following query parameters perform with OData?

/WorkItems?$select=WorkItemId,WorkItemType,Title,State&$filter=State eq 'Stopped'

Ans: It returns work items that are in the state of Stopped