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Fresher (0–3 years): Azure Associate / Support

  1. Explain IaaS, PaaS and SaaS with Azure examples.
  2. What is a resource group and how would you organise them?
  3. How does Azure RBAC work?
  4. How would you connect securely to a VM that has no public IP?
  5. What is Azure's identity and access service called?
  6. What groups related Azure resources that share a lifecycle?
  7. Which service stores unstructured data such as images and backups?
  8. What filters network traffic to a VM's subnet or network interface?
  9. Which built-in role can manage everything but cannot grant access to others?
  10. Where do you collect and query logs from many resources?
  11. Which is the correct hierarchy, top to bottom?
  12. Which PaaS service hosts web apps without managing VMs?

Mid-level (3–8 years): Azure Engineer / Administrator

  1. Design a hub-and-spoke network in Azure.
  2. How do you keep Azure costs under control?
  3. Explain the difference between Azure Policy and RBAC.
  4. A web app on App Service is slow. How do you troubleshoot?
  5. How do you connect two VNets in different regions privately?
  6. Require MFA when users sign in from outside the office.
  7. Prevent accidental deletion of a production resource group.
  8. Allow resources to be created only in approved regions.
  9. Which option scales VMs automatically with load?
  10. Let an app read secrets from Key Vault without storing any credential.
  11. Which is a layer-7 load balancer with an optional web application firewall?
  12. How do you back up Azure VMs with retention policies?

Experienced (8–15 years): Senior Azure Engineer / Architect

  1. How would you design an enterprise Azure landing zone?
  2. Plan the migration of 200 on-premises VMs to Azure.
  3. How do you implement zero trust on Azure?
  4. How do you run governance across 50 subscriptions?
  5. What does Microsoft recommend for an enterprise landing zone structure?
  6. Private connectivity from on-premises, with an SLA and no internet path.
  7. A global HTTP application needs edge acceleration and regional failover.
  8. Give admins just-in-time privileged access with approval.
  9. Business continuity for Azure SQL across regions.
  10. Which infrastructure-as-code language is native to Azure?
  11. Keep traffic to PaaS services off the public internet.
  12. In the Cloud Adoption Framework, what comes before migrating workloads?