Cost Optimisation
How do you avoid cost cutting that damages resilience?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Explain decisions
FinOps Academy: Senior interview drills
Practise structured answers covering requirements, risks, controls, evidence and recovery.
Budgets and Alerts
Why are budget alerts not hard spending limits?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Azure Advisor
When should an Advisor recommendation be ignored?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Reservations
What happens when organisational ownership changes?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Savings Plans
What workload profile favours a savings plan?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
Tagging Strategy
Why does manual tagging degrade quickly?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.
FinOps Governance
Who owns cloud cost—the platform team or product team?
Answer framework: Clarify requirements → state assumptions → compare options → control risk → validate → explain rollback.