Azure Interview Questions Part- #1

In this blog we will talk about the frequently asked interview questions in case of Azure Administrators, Cloud engineers, Azure Engineers, Cloud Associates etc etc , basically these questions blogs would go from basic to intermediate and  latter post would also include advance questionnaire as well.

Since this is my first blog on Azure interview questions so we will start with basic three question that everyone should prepare which would create the first impression because you have prepared them well & why i am saying that because rest of the question you dont know but these three questions are yours and your experience on cloud so lets get started.

Question #1 : Talk about yourself or introduce yourself ?

Answer : We all know that its been asked so many times and our motive is cloud talk however this is our first blog so have to mention from the beginning. Here you can talk about you work experience, your career and anything you are confident with unless you see Interviewers are interested if you are going little off-track then technology but nothing wrong talking about other stuff but be the better judge of situation.

Question #2 : What you do in your daily life as a cloud engineer or what you actually do in Azure ?

Answer : This what i was talking about you can prepare this question like anything and you should everyone asks this question and this is your opportunity where you mention most of thing that you are comfortable with and explain is such a way that you know what you talking about, try to touch all the services which shows your cloud knowledge.

Question #3 : Describe any issue or scenario that you recently faced and fixed ?

Answer : This is the 3rd and last question where you can actually through a very good impression & i have seen this question quite often and i do ask my interview this helps me figure out about the interview a lot hence i would suggest you need to prepare at least 5 scenario or situations where you got stuck and what all troubleshooting steps you implemented to fix it. Usually what happens we do not face challenges everyday & if its been a while or few days we forget hence you need to prepare this question because this time ball is in your court. Also beware alot of questions may come with your explanation hence you should know your topics well.


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Question #4 : What type of disks used by Azure VM ?

Answer :  3 types of disks used by Azure VM :- OS Disk, Data Disk & Temporary Storage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ndVoyso1I



Question #5 :  Can you use the temporary storage or disk to store data ?

Answer : Its not recommended to use important data on temp storage or disk because you will risk loosing data & that cant be recovered because this space is on the host machine and in case of VM re-sizing, shutdown, updating host or hardware issue on host , your VM might move to different host.
       

Question #6 : Can you change the Drive letter of temporary Disk , if yes then How?

Answer : Yes you can change the Drive letter of the temporary disk by moving the page file to C:drive temporarily and then change the drive letter once done move the page file back to new Drive letter assigned temporary disk.


https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/virtual-machines/windows/change-drive-letter?toc=%2fazure%2fvirtual-machines%2fwindows%2fclassic%2ftoc.json


Question #7 : Can i add the existing machine to Av-set if  yes then how and if no whats the work-around ?

Answer : No, you can not move the existing VM to the AV-Set however if it has been asked to move the existing VM to Av-set then we need downtime for that & need to delete the VM and re-create the VM inside AV-Set. If there are many machines then you can utilize powershell script available on powershell center.


Question #8 : Can you change the size of OS-Disk if yes then how ?

Answer : Yes you can increase the size of OS-Disk but not decrease and you need to deallocate the VM for this means downtime required not much but yes it requires. Once VM is deallocated then you need to go to the VM >> settings >> Disk >> Os-disk >> Configuration >> increase the size.

Its not dome yet once it is increased from portal then you need to login to the VM and extend the disk from the disk management as well.


Question #9 : If you have stopped your Azure VM from inside a VM, would it incur changes ?


Answer : Yes it would you should atopp from Azure portal and VM should be in De-allocated state if you dont want additional charges.


Question #10 : How do you fix the issue if your NSG is fine but you still unable to RDP ?

Answer : Yes i have seen this issue & in this case we need to reset the RDP configuration from Azure portal that would fix the issue. "This process will enable Remote Desktop service in the VM, and create a firewall rule for the default RDP port 3389."


Series has been started, soon Part-2 be coming !!!!