Comparison Interview Questions — All Categories
127 questions across 34 categories
Head-to-head trade-off questions — the kind that reveal whether a candidate has real judgment or just memorized facts.
You're standing up a new AKS cluster and need to choose a network plugin: Azure CNI or kubenet. What's the actual trade-off, and why can this decision be hard to reverse later?
IntermediateAzureKubernetesAKS7 min
How would Karpenter-style node provisioning change the troubleshooting process compared to the traditional Kubernetes cluster autoscaler?
AdvancedKubernetes7 min
How would you decide between App Service, Azure Functions, and AKS for a new event-driven workload, beyond just 'Functions is for small things'?
IntermediateAzureApp ServiceAzure Functions7 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
An Azure DevOps pipeline currently authenticates to Azure using a service principal with a stored client secret. Why would you migrate to a managed identity instead, and what are the actual limits of doing so?
IntermediateAzure7 min
You need to control outbound traffic from a VNet, including blocking access to specific malicious domains and inspecting traffic content. Are Network Security Groups sufficient, or do you need Azure Firewall?
IntermediateAzure7 min
An app needs to reach an Azure Storage account without traffic crossing the public internet. Should you use a Service Endpoint or a Private Endpoint, and what's the actual security difference?
IntermediateAzure7 min
A new project is choosing between Blob Storage's Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive tiers for its data. How would you actually decide, and what's the risk of getting it wrong?
BeginnerAzureBlob Storage6 min
How would you choose a Storage account's replication setting (LRS, ZRS, GRS, or GZRS) for a workload that genuinely needs regional resilience?
IntermediateAzureBlob 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