Azure Interview Questions - Live Discussion

​In this session, we will go through the top 50 questions that are commonly asked in Azure interviews. These questions are gathered from many developers who have given Azure interviews.

​For each question, we will discuss the expected answer and also cover the cross questions and follow-up questions that are commonly asked by interviewers.

1. ​What is Azure App Service and how do you deploy a .NET application to it?

2. ​What are the different options to deploy a .NET Web API on Azure (App Service, AKS, Azure Container Apps, VM)?

3. ​Why did you choose Azure App Service instead of AKS or Azure VM?

4. ​What is the difference between Azure App Service and Azure Virtual Machine?

5. ​What is Azure Functions and when would you use it?

6. ​How do you secure Azure Functions using Azure AD and JWT?

7. ​How do you implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure Functions?

8. ​How do you handle JWT token expiration and refresh tokens in Azure?

9. ​What are Durable Functions and when should they be used?

10. ​How do you monitor Azure Functions and receive alerts when they fail?

11. ​What is Azure Storage Account and what are its different storage types?

12. ​How do you secure an Azure Storage Account from unauthorized access?

13. ​What is Azure Key Vault and why is it important?

14. ​How do you connect an ASP.NET Core application to Azure Key Vault?

15. ​What is Managed Identity and how does it work with Azure Key Vault?

16. ​How do you implement CI/CD using Azure DevOps?

17. ​Explain the stages of an Azure DevOps pipeline.

18. ​How do you deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service?

19. ​What is Azure Container Registry (ACR)?

20. ​What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and when would you use it?

21. ​How do you configure autoscaling in Azure App Service?

22. ​What is Azure Service Bus?

23. ​What is the difference between Queue and Topic in Azure Service Bus?

24. ​When would you choose Azure Service Bus over REST API communication?

25. ​What is Azure Event Grid?

26. ​What is Azure Event Hub?

27. ​What is the difference between Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hub?

28. ​What is Azure API Management (APIM) and why is it used?

29. ​How do you secure an ASP.NET Core Web API hosted in Azure?

30. ​How do you authenticate Azure APIs using Azure AD?

31. ​What is Azure Monitor?

32. ​What is Application Insights?

33. ​How do you configure centralized logging using Application Insights?

34. ​How do you write KQL (Kusto Query Language) queries for troubleshooting?

35. ​How do you troubleshoot performance issues in Azure App Service?

36. ​How do you implement distributed caching in Azure?

37. ​What is Azure Redis Cache and when would you use it?

38. ​How do you store secrets without using appsettings.json?

39. ​What are Private Endpoints and VNet Integration?

40. ​How do you secure communication between Azure services?

41. ​What are deployment slots in Azure App Service?

42. ​What is Blue-Green Deployment in Azure?

43. ​What is Canary Deployment in Azure?

44. ​How do you roll back a failed deployment in Azure?

45. ​What Azure AI services have you worked with?

46. ​How do you integrate Azure OpenAI or Azure AI Services into a .NET application?

47. ​How do you optimize Azure cloud costs?

48. ​How do you design a highly available Azure architecture?

49. ​How do you implement disaster recovery in Azure?

50. ​Describe the Azure architecture used in your current project.