Azure Fundamentals
How would you separate production, non-production and shared services?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Explain decisions
Azure Academy: Senior interview drills
Practise structured answers covering requirements, risks, controls, evidence and recovery.
Azure Administrator
A VM is unreachable after a network change. What do you check first?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Architecture
When would you prefer PaaS over IaaS?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Security
How do Managed Identity and Key Vault reduce secret risk?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Networking
Why can forced tunnelling break a managed service?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Storage
Compare LRS, ZRS, GRS and GZRS.
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Compute
What drives a decision between Container Apps and AKS?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Identity
How does PIM reduce privileged-access risk?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Landing Zones
What must exist before application teams onboard?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Governance
When should policy audit rather than deny?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.