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1. What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is a term referred to storing and accessing data over
the internet. It doesn’t store any data on the hard disk of your personal
computer. In cloud computing, you are allowed accessing data from a
remote server.

2. What is Microsoft Azure?


Azure is a cloud computing platform which was launched by Microsoft in
Feb 2010. It is a highly flexible cloud platform that offers development,
data storage, service hosting, and service management.

3. Explain the Importance of the role and how many


types of roles are available in Windows Azure?
Roles are a very important concept in Windows Azure, and learning
them is the base for further programming.

Three types of roles in Windows Azure are:

• Web Role: It is used to deploy website by using langue which is


supported by the IIS platform customized to run the web apps.
• Worker Role: It helps you to execute the process that runs in the
background.
• VM Role: It helps you to schedule the windows services and task.

4. Why should you use Azure CDN?


Azure CDN should be used to reduce load time and bandwidth as well as
speed the responsiveness.

5. Name some important applications of Microsoft Azure


Most important application of Microsoft Azure are:

Infrastructure Services, Mobile Apps, Web Applications, Cloud Services,


Storage, Media Services, etc.

6. What is Azure as PaaS?


PaaS is a computing platform that includes an operating system,
programming language execution environment, database, or web
services. Developers and application providers use this type of Azure
services.

7. Explain the crucial benefits of Traffic Manager


Traffic management offers many advantages for the user:

• Increase the performance


• No Downtime required for update or Maintenance
• You can easily configure Azure Traffic manager on Windows Azure
portal.

8. What are Break-fix issues in Microsoft Azure?


In, Microsoft Azure, all the technical problem is called break-fix issues.
This term uses when “work involved in support a technology when it
fails in the normal course of its function.

9. Explain Diagnostics in Windows Azure


Windows Azure Diagnostic offers the facility to store diagnostic data. In
Azure, some diagnostics data is stored in the table, while some are
stored in a blob. The diagnostic monitor runs in Windows Azure as well
as in the computer’s emulator for collecting data for a role instance.

10. State the difference between repetitive and minimal


monitoring.
Verbose monitoring collects metrics based on performance. It allows a
close analysis of data fed during the process of application.

On the other hand, minimal monitoring is a default configuration


method. It makes the user of performance counters gathered from the
operating system of the host.

11. What is the main difference between the repository


and the powerhouse server?
The main difference between them is that repository servers are instead
of the integrity, consistency, and uniformity while powerhouse server
governs the integration of different aspects of the database repository.

12. Explain command task in Microsoft Azure


Command task is an operational window which set off the flow of either
single or multiple common whiles when the system is running.

13. What are unconnected lookups?


Unconnected lookup the input ins take by the LKP operation. In this
type of lookup method, User-defined values are disregarded in the
unconnected lookups.

14. Explain Cmdlet command of Microsoft Azure


A cmdlet is a command which is utilized as a part of the Microsoft
PowerShell environment. The cmdlet is called by the Windows
PowerShell to automate the scripts which are in the command line.

15. What is the use of the Migration Assistant tool in


Azure Websites?
Migration Assistant tool helps you to examine your IIS installation. It
helps you to recognize which site can be migrated to the cloud. It is also
featuring components which are either not migrated or unsupported on
the Azure platform.

Azure Interview Questions and Answers for


Experienced
16. What is the use of Azure Active Directory?
Azure Active Directory is an identify and access management system. It
is very much similar to the active directories. It allows you to grant your
employee in accessing specific products and services within the
network.

17. What is HDInsight in Microsoft Azure?


HDInsight is a could service which that makes it easy. It is fast and cost-
effective to process a massive amount of data using with the help of
open-source frameworks like Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Storm and R.
HDInsight offers various type of scenarios which includes ETL, data
warehousing, and Machine Learning.

18. Explain role instance in Microsoft Azure


A role instance is a virtual instance on which the application code and
role configuration run. A role can have multiple instances, which are
defined in the service configuration file.

19. Explain the term ‘service fabric’ in Azure


Service fabric is a middleware platform which gives more scalable
outcome. It mostly renders with a more managed and reliable
enterprise.

20. Explain Availability Set


It is a logical grouping of Virtual Machines. It allows the Azure cloud to
build understand how the application for a user is built to provide
availability and redundancy.

21. Name the types of web application which can be


deployed with Azure
ASP.Net, PHP, WCF are a type of web application which can be deployed
with SQL Azure.

22. How many customers subscriptions allowed in


managed disks?
The number of managed disks subscription is limited to 2000.
23. Explain the service definition file
The course service definition file (.csdef) defines the service mode. It
includes a number of roles.

24. State the difference between copy and shortcut


Copied means transferring an object from one to another folder which
takes double space. The shortcut is a dynamic Link on an object which
saves the space which shows changes in the original object.

25. Name the services which are used to manage


resources in Azure
• Application Insights
• Azure Portal
• Azure Resource manager
• Log Analytics

26. Explain enterprise warehousing


Enterprise warehousing is the phenomenon where the data is
developed by the organization having access at a single point
throughout the globe. The warehousing allows serving to get linked to a
single point with the assistance of periodic handling.

27. What are the important drawbacks of using Microsoft


Azure?
• Cloud computing is not possible if you are not able to connect to
the Internet.
• Azure is a web-based app which needs a lot of bandwidth to
download, as do large documents.
• Web-based applications can sometimes be slower compared
accessing similar software program on your desktop PC.
28. What is MOSS?
Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS) that consist of a complete version
of the portal platform. It allows a user to manage, share and even create
the document.

29. What is the step you need to perform when drive


failure occurs?
When there is an instance that the drive has failed, the following step
should be performed:

• The drive should be not mounted, which allows the object Azure
storage to function without fail.
• The second scenario is replacing the drive in which the desired
step will remounting, formatting the drive.

30. What it’s the difference between PROC MEANS and


PROC SUMMARY?
• PROC MEANS: It refers to the subgroup of statist created in the
persistence of the BY statement.
• PROC SUMMARY: It is the support statistic giving all varieties of
information running simultaneously.

Azure Interview Questions for 5 to 10 Years


Experience
31. State the difference between a library and a list
The library is an interface which allows to manage and store a
document which can be created using Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

On the other hand, the list is the representation of the item in a tabular
format using column and rows. It can be attached with documents.
32. Can you create VM by using Microsoft Azure Resource
Manager in a Virtual Network?
No, it is not possible to create a virtual machine using the Azure
Resource Manager.

33. What is the use of VNET?


With the help of VNET, you can represent your network within the cloud.
It could insulate the instance logically which are launched within the
cloud.

34. What the important requirements when creating a


new Virtual Machine?
The length of the user name should not more than 20 characters, and it
should not end with a period.

35. Name various power states of a Virtual Machine.


Various power states of a Virtual Machine are: Running, Starting,
Stopping, Deallocating, etc.

36. Explain lookup transformation


Lookup transformation helps you to finds outsource qualifier. It may be
either active/passive lookup transformation.

37. What are the three main components of the Windows


Azure platform?
Three most important components of the Windows Azure platform are:

• Compute
• Storage
• AppFabric
38. Explain cspack in Microsoft Azure
Cspack is a command-line tool which generates a service package file. It
also helps you to prepares an application for deployment, either in
compute emulator or Microsoft Windows Azure.

39. What is the purpose of using an application partition


scheme in Azure?
An application partition aims to reduce the replication traffic within a
specific domain area.

40. Explain Azure Service Level Agreement


The Service ensures that when you send two or more roles instances for
each role, access to your cloud service will be maintained 9 out of 10
times. Moreover, identification re-correction activity will be stared when
the procedure of a role instance is not running.

41. What do you mean by the network security groups?


A network security group allows you to manage the network traffic to
NIC or subnets etc. If it is connected in the best possible way, then the
network load will be distributed wisely.

42. What happens when you exhaust the maximum


failed attempts by authenticating yourself using Azure
AD?
We use a more method to lock accounts. This is based on the IP address
of the request and the passwords entered by the user.

43. Explain the concept of the table in Windows Azure


A table is one kind of Azure store. In which you can store your
information.
Below given are the key concepts of the table:

• Tables allow structure data storage


• There can be 0 to n table in a storage account.
• An element has an essential key and properties as a key-value
pair.

44. What is the use of Temp Drive in VM?


Temp Drive is used for Paging in Azure. However, it is a short drive, and
you should not use it for storage.

45. Explain guest OS in Microsoft Azure


Guest OS is an operating system which runs on the virtual
machine which allows you to hosts an instance of a role.

46. When will you find the list of built-in app with ADD?
The Azure Active Directory has more than 2500 built-in app. It allows
you to access the application more securely.

47. Are data disks provide support within scale sets?


Yes, a scale allows you to define an attached data disk configuration
which applies to all VMs In the set. Other options for data storing are:

• Azure files
• Azure Data services
• OS drive
• External data service

48. State the difference pricing model of Microsoft Azure


Here, are different pricing model of Microsoft Azure:
BYOL Model: It brings your license model. It is just right to access
model. You can obtain it outside of the Azure Marketplace. This model is
not charged any fees.

Free Software Trial: It is a full-featured version which is promotionally


free for a limited period of time. However, for excessive use, you need to
pay fees.

Usage-based: This is a widely used model of Microsoft Azure. Here, user


are changed for only that service which is used by them.

Monthly fee: Here, you need to pay a fixed monthly payment for a
subscription.

49. What is csrun?


Csrun is a command-line tool that deploys a packaged application to
the Windows Azure compute emulator and manages the running
service.

50. Name two blobs used in Microsoft Azure


Two types of blobs offer in Azure are:

1. Block Blob
2. Page Blob

51. How much storage can a user with a virtual machine


use?
Each data disk on the VM can be up to 1 TB. However, the number of
data disks, which you can use depends on the size of the virtual
machine.

52. Name three types of Disks used by VMs


Three types of disk used in VMs are:
• Operating system disk
• Temporary disk
• Data disk

53. Name two types of cloud services


Two most common could services are:

• Public cloud
• Private cloud

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