DevSecOps Interview Questions
72 questions across 16 categories
Security integrated into the delivery pipeline — supply chain, secrets management, access control, and shifting security left.
Should a new AKS cluster use native Kubernetes RBAC or Azure RBAC for Kubernetes Authorization to control kubectl-level access, and what does the Azure option actually change?
IntermediateAzureKubernetesAKS6 min
How would you let a pod in AKS call a Key Vault or Storage API using its own Azure identity, without mounting any credential file or secret into the pod at all?
AdvancedAzureKubernetesAKS7 min
An App Service using Managed Identity to call a storage account worked fine for months. After a Private Endpoint was added to that storage account, the App Service started failing to reach it. Why?
AdvancedAzureApp ServiceBlob Storage7 min
A new Key Vault needs a permission model — should you use Azure RBAC or the older vault access policies, and why does Key Vault even have two separate systems for this?
IntermediateAzureKey Vault6 min
How would you design secret rotation for a live, high-traffic application backed by Key Vault, so rotating a credential never causes a production outage?
ExpertAzureKey Vault8 min
A Function App using Managed Identity to read a Key Vault secret works most of the time, but intermittently fails on startup with an authorization error. How do you actually diagnose this?
AdvancedAzureKey Vault7 min
A CI/CD pipeline that's deployed successfully for two years suddenly fails every run overnight, with no recent pipeline or code changes. How do you diagnose it, and prevent it happening silently again?
IntermediateAzure6 min
A storage account's firewall was locked down to specific VNets for security, and now diagnostic logging and a few other first-party Azure integrations silently stopped working. What's actually happening?
AdvancedAzureBlob Storage6 min
A compliance requirement says certain records must be provably unmodifiable for seven years. How would you design this with Blob Storage's immutability features, and what breaks if you choose the wrong policy type?
AdvancedAzureBlob Storage7 min
An app authenticates to Blob Storage using a long-lived SAS token embedded in configuration. Why move it to Managed Identity, and what does a SAS actually give up that Managed Identity doesn't?
IntermediateAzureBlob Storage7 min