10 November 2020

#Azure

#Azure

Key Concepts


Topic Sub-Topics Basic Intermediate Advanced Expert
Compute Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, App Services, Azure Functions, Logic Apps ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Storage Blob Storage, Table Storage, Queue Storage, File Storage, Data Lake Gen2 ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Networking VNet, Subnets, NSG, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Front Door, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Traffic Manager ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Databases Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Managed Instance ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Identity & Security Azure AD, RBAC, MFA, Conditional Access, PIM, Key Vault, Azure Policy ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Monitoring & Management Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Advisor, Cost Management, Blueprints ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Containers & Kubernetes AKS, ACR, Container Instances, Helm, Service Mesh ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Integration Services Event Grid, Event Hub, Service Bus, API Management ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
DevOps & Automation Azure DevOps, Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts, Boards, ARM Templates, Bicep, Automation ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
AI & ML Cognitive Services, Azure ML, Databricks, Cognitive Search ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Data & Analytics Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, HDInsight, Power BI Integration ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Azure Arc, Azure Stack, Lighthouse ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Migration & DR Azure Migrate, Site Recovery, Database Migration Service ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
IoT & Edge IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Digital Twins, Stream Analytics, Private MEC ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Security & Compliance Security Center, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Confidential Computing ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Enterprise Governance Blueprints, Policy, Cost Management, FinOps ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Big Data & HPC HDInsight, Databricks, HPC Clusters ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Media & Content Delivery Media Services, CDN ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Blockchain Azure Blockchain Service, Confidential Ledger ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Specialized Workloads SAP on Azure, HPC, AI Supercomputing ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅

Interview question

Basic Level

  1. What is Microsoft Azure?
  2. What are the main advantages of using Azure?
  3. Explain the difference between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
  4. What are Azure Regions and Availability Zones?
  5. What is Azure Resource Manager (ARM)?
  6. What is an Azure Subscription?
  7. What is the difference between Azure Tenant and Subscription?
  8. What is Azure Virtual Machine (VM)?
  9. What is the difference between VM Scale Sets and Availability Sets?
  10. What are Azure App Services?
  11. What is Azure Functions?
  12. What is Azure Logic Apps?
  13. What is Azure Blob Storage?
  14. What are the storage tiers in Azure?
  15. Difference between Blob, File, Queue, and Table storage.
  16. What is an Azure Virtual Network (VNet)?
  17. What are Network Security Groups (NSGs)?
  18. What is Azure Load Balancer?
  19. What is Application Gateway?
  20. What is ExpressRoute?
  21. What is Azure SQL Database?
  22. What is the difference between SQL Database and Managed Instance?
  23. What is Cosmos DB?
  24. What is Azure Synapse Analytics?
  25. What is Azure Active Directory (AAD)?
  26. What is the difference between Azure AD and AD DS?
  27. What is Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)?
  28. What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in Azure?
  29. What is Azure Key Vault?
  30. What is Azure Monitor?
  31. What is Log Analytics in Azure?
  32. What is Application Insights?
  33. What is Azure Advisor?
  34. What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?
  35. What is Azure Container Registry (ACR)?
  36. What are Azure Container Instances?
  37. What is Azure Event Grid?
  38. What is Azure Service Bus?
  39. What is Azure DevOps?
  40. What are Pipelines in Azure DevOps?
  41. What are Repos and Artifacts in Azure DevOps?
  42. What are Boards in Azure DevOps?
  43. What is Cognitive Services in Azure?
  44. What is Azure Machine Learning?
  45. What is Azure Databricks?
  46. What is Azure Data Factory?
  47. What is Azure Arc?
  48. What is Azure Stack HCI?
  49. What is Azure Site Recovery?
  50. What is Azure Migrate?

Intermediate Level

  1. How does Azure VM Scale Sets provide scalability?
  2. What are Availability Zones vs Availability Sets?
  3. How do you secure Azure Virtual Machines?
  4. How do you configure Azure Bastion?
  5. What is Azure Application Gateway with WAF?
  6. How does Azure Front Door work?
  7. What is the difference between Azure Load Balancer and Front Door?
  8. What is a VNet Peering?
  9. Difference between VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute.
  10. What is Private Link in Azure?
  11. What is a Service Endpoint in Azure Networking?
  12. How does Cosmos DB handle partitioning?
  13. What are consistency levels in Cosmos DB?
  14. How does Cosmos DB provide multi-region replication?
  15. What is Synapse Analytics used for?
  16. What is PolyBase in Synapse?
  17. What is Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2?
  18. What are Managed Identities in Azure?
  19. What is Conditional Access in Azure AD?
  20. What is Privileged Identity Management (PIM)?
  21. How does Azure Key Vault integrate with applications?
  22. What are Diagnostic Settings in Azure Monitor?
  23. How does Log Analytics query language (KQL) work?
  24. How does Application Insights help in distributed tracing?
  25. What is Azure Policy?
  26. What is the difference between Azure Monitor and Azure Security Center?
  27. What is Azure Defender for Cloud?
  28. What is AKS node pool?
  29. How do you scale AKS clusters?
  30. How do Helm charts work in AKS?
  31. What is Azure Functions Consumption Plan?
  32. What are Durable Functions in Azure?
  33. How does Event Grid integrate with Logic Apps?
  34. What is the difference between Event Hub and Service Bus?
  35. How does Azure DevOps integrate with GitHub Actions?
  36. What are YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps?
  37. What are Deployment Groups?
  38. What are Artifacts in Azure DevOps used for?
  39. What is Azure Cognitive Search?
  40. What are Prebuilt Models in Cognitive Services?
  41. How does Azure Machine Learning handle model deployment?
  42. What is Databricks Delta Lake?
  43. How does Azure Data Factory perform ETL?
  44. What is Azure Lighthouse?
  45. How does Azure Arc help with hybrid management?
  46. How does Site Recovery work for DR scenarios?
  47. What is Database Migration Service (DMS)?
  48. What is Azure Blueprints?
  49. How does Cost Management + Billing work?
  50. What is Azure Pricing Calculator?

Advanced Level

  1. How to design a hub-and-spoke network topology in Azure?
  2. How does Azure Firewall work?
  3. Difference between Firewall and NSG.
  4. How do you design a global VNet architecture?
  5. How to implement ExpressRoute Global Reach?
  6. How does Azure Traffic Manager work?
  7. How do you configure load balancing across regions?
  8. How does Cosmos DB scale elastically?
  9. How to tune indexing policies in Cosmos DB?
  10. How to design for strong consistency vs eventual consistency?
  11. How to optimize Synapse pipelines for big data?
  12. How to integrate Synapse with Power BI?
  13. How does Data Lake Gen2 handle hierarchical namespace?
  14. How to secure storage accounts with Private Endpoints?
  15. How to rotate keys in Key Vault automatically?
  16. How to implement Conditional Access policies for external users?
  17. How does Azure Sentinel integrate with Security Center?
  18. How to configure Just-In-Time (JIT) access to VMs?
  19. How to enforce least privilege in RBAC at scale?
  20. How to configure Azure Policy for compliance enforcement?
  21. How to deploy multi-region AKS clusters?
  22. How to secure AKS clusters using Azure AD integration?
  23. How to configure network policies in AKS?
  24. How does Azure Functions integrate with VNETs?
  25. How to optimize cold start in Functions?
  26. What is an Event-driven serverless architecture with Event Grid?
  27. How does Durable Functions support fan-out/fan-in?
  28. How to design enterprise DevOps pipelines in Azure?
  29. How to implement approvals in multi-stage pipelines?
  30. How to use service connections securely in Azure DevOps?
  31. How does Azure ML pipeline work?
  32. How to monitor ML models in production with Azure Monitor?
  33. How to scale Databricks clusters dynamically?
  34. How to optimize Data Factory performance for large ETL jobs?
  35. How to configure monitoring with Application Insights at scale?
  36. How to use Azure Blueprints for governance?
  37. How to implement hybrid Kubernetes clusters with Azure Arc?
  38. How does Lighthouse manage multiple tenants?
  39. How to configure advanced disaster recovery with Site Recovery?
  40. How to migrate enterprise SAP workloads to Azure?
  41. How to integrate Azure AD with on-prem Active Directory?
  42. How to implement passwordless authentication in Azure?
  43. How to use Azure Privileged Identity Management at scale?
  44. How to handle data residency and compliance in Azure?
  45. How to secure multi-cloud with Azure Security Center?
  46. How to enforce compliance using Azure Defender?
  47. How to design FinOps practices in Azure?
  48. How to implement tagging governance?
  49. How to use Managed Grafana in Azure Monitor?
  50. How to implement custom log ingestion into Log Analytics?

Expert Level

  1. How to design enterprise-scale landing zones in Azure?
  2. How to enforce governance using Azure Policy at enterprise scale?
  3. How to design Zero Trust architecture in Azure?
  4. How to implement enterprise-wide RBAC strategy?
  5. How to secure multi-tenant SaaS applications in Azure?
  6. How to manage hybrid cloud with Azure Arc across multiple clouds?
  7. How to configure cross-region traffic routing with Traffic Manager + Front Door?
  8. How to implement Azure ExpressRoute with MPLS?
  9. How to integrate Azure Stack with on-prem data centers?
  10. How to manage sovereignty and compliance with Azure Government cloud?
  11. How to secure highly regulated workloads (HIPAA, GDPR) in Azure?
  12. How to design Cosmos DB for financial-grade workloads?
  13. How to implement multi-master replication in Cosmos DB?
  14. How to optimize Synapse Analytics for enterprise data warehouses?
  15. How to implement Data Mesh with Azure Data Lake + Synapse?
  16. How to implement cross-region failover with Azure SQL Hyperscale?
  17. How to optimize ML lifecycle with MLOps in Azure?
  18. How to integrate Databricks with Synapse for real-time analytics?
  19. How to implement advanced data governance in Azure Purview?
  20. How to build enterprise-scale IoT solutions with Azure IoT Hub?
  21. How to integrate IoT Hub with Event Grid and Stream Analytics?
  22. How to secure IoT devices with Azure Defender for IoT?
  23. How to build digital twins using Azure Digital Twins?
  24. How to implement edge computing with Azure IoT Edge?
  25. How to build 5G-enabled solutions with Azure Private MEC?
  26. How to integrate Azure with AWS and GCP in a multi-cloud strategy?
  27. How to manage cost governance across multi-cloud with Azure Cost Management?
  28. How to use Lighthouse for managed service providers (MSPs)?
  29. How to enforce enterprise-wide tagging compliance?
  30. How to implement chaos engineering in Azure?
  31. How to implement automated incident response with Logic Apps?
  32. How to build self-healing systems with Azure Monitor + Automation?
  33. How to design HA/DR for SAP on Azure?
  34. How to secure Kubernetes workloads across multi-region AKS?
  35. How to implement service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) in AKS?
  36. How to secure CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps + Key Vault?
  37. How to implement GitOps in AKS using Flux/ArgoCD?
  38. How to implement enterprise blockchain solutions with Azure Blockchain Service?
  39. How to design HPC clusters in Azure for research workloads?
  40. How to optimize large-scale video streaming with Azure Media Services?
  41. How to design AI at scale using Azure Cognitive Services?
  42. How to build enterprise knowledge mining solutions with Cognitive Search?
  43. How to integrate Azure Synapse with Power Platform at scale?
  44. How to secure enterprise ML pipelines with Responsible AI?
  45. How to use Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes for hybrid governance?
  46. How to implement DevSecOps pipelines in Azure?
  47. How to enforce compliance with Azure Policy + Defender across 1000+ subscriptions?
  48. How to implement disaster recovery for multi-cloud apps?
  49. How to run confidential computing workloads with Azure Confidential VMs?
  50. How to architect for 99.999% availability on Azure?

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