A short, friendly assessment to get a sense of your technical foundations. No trick questions — just answer as best you can.
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Section 1 — Cloud & Azure
Q1–6
Question 01
Azure App Service is described as a PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering. What does this mean in practice compared to using a Virtual Machine (IaaS)?
Question 02
A deployed Azure Web App is intermittently returning 500 errors but the app appears healthy in the Azure portal. Which Azure tool would give you the most useful information about what is failing at runtime?
Question 03
Your team is deploying a new microservice to Azure. You need to ensure that when the environment is torn down, all related resources (App Service, SQL database, storage account) are deleted together. What is the best way to organise this in Azure?
Question 04
What is the difference between "scaling out" (horizontal scaling) and "scaling up" (vertical scaling) in Azure?
Question 05
Your application needs to store a database connection string and an API key securely, so they can be accessed at runtime without being hardcoded in the source code. Which Azure service is designed for this?
Question 06
Azure Functions is described as a "serverless" compute service. What does serverless mean in this context?
Section 2 — CI/CD & Pipelines
Q7–9
Question 07
In an Azure DevOps pipeline, what is a trigger?
Question 08
Your team deploys to three environments: dev, staging, and production. A bug is found in staging that was not caught in dev. What does this most likely indicate about your pipeline?
Question 09
In a CI/CD pipeline, what is a build artefact?
Section 3 — Networking Basics
Q10–11
Question 10
You need to point app.bud.co.uk at an Azure-provided hostname (myapp.azurewebsites.net) rather than a fixed IP address. Which DNS record type should you use?
Question 11
A new Azure VM is deployed but you cannot connect to it via SSH. The VM is running and has a public IP. What is the most likely cause?
Section 4 — Your Thinking
Q12–15
Question 12
In your own words, what do you think "Infrastructure as Code" means? Don't worry if you haven't used it — just have a go at explaining it.
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Question 13
A website you look after goes down at 2am. Walk us through how you would approach investigating the problem. There is no single right answer — we are interested in how you think.
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Question 14
What interests you most about platform or cloud engineering? Is there a project (personal or professional) that sparked that interest?
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Question 15
If you had to learn a new tool or technology from scratch on the job, how would you go about it? Give a specific example if you can.
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