Microsoft Azure Interview Questions – Set 03

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Explain the Migration Assistant tool in Microsoft Azure.

The migration assistant tool examines our IIS installation and recognizes the sites that can be migrated to the cloud, featuring any components which can’t be relocated or not supported by the platform. This tool similarly creates websites and databases provided under the given Azure membership.

How to create a VM in PowerShell?

# Define a credential object
$cred = Get-Credential
# Create a virtual machine configuration
$vmConfig = New-AzureRmVMConfig -VMName myVM -VMSize Standard_DS2 |
` Set-AzureRmVMOperatingSystem -Windows -ComputerName myVM -Credential $cred |
` Set-AzureRmVMSourceImage -PublisherName MicrosoftWindowsServer -Offer WindowsServer `
-Skus 2016-Datacenter -Version latest | Add-AzureRmVMNetworkInterface -Id $nic.Id

What is cspack?

Cspack is a command-line tool, which is used to generate a service package file. It helps us to prepare an application for deployment, either in compute emulator or Microsoft Windows Azure.

What is Virtual Machine scale sets?

It is an Azure compute resource that we can use to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. It is easy to build large-scale services that target big compute, big data, and containerized workloads if all the VMs configured the same.

Explain stateful and stateless micro-services for Service Fabric?

Service Fabric enables us to build applications that consist of microservices. Stateless micro-service doesn’t maintain a mutable state outside a request. Azure Cloud Service’s worker role is an example of a stateless service. Stateful microservice maintains a mutable, authoritative state beyond the request and its response.

What is Azure SLA (Service Level Agreement)?

The SLA ensures that when we send two or more role instances for each role. Access to our cloud service will be maintained with an accuracy of 99.95 % of the time. The identification and re-correction activities will be started 99.9 % of the time whenever a role instance’s procedure is not running.

What is Cloud Computing?

It is a platform where we can store and access our data over the internet. We can store and access our data from anywhere in the world.

Name two blobs used in Microsoft Azure

The two types of blobs in Azure are:

  • Block Blob
  • Page Blob

What are the principal segments of the Windows Azure platform?

Windows Azure has the following three principal segments:

  • Windows Azure Compute: It gives a code that can be managed by the hosting environment. It provides the benefit of
  • calculation through parts. It consists of three types of roles – Web Role, Worker Role, and VM Role.
  • Windows Azure Storage: It gives four types of Storage services – Queue, Tables, Blobs, and Windows Azure Drives (VHD)
  • Windows Azure AppFabric: AppFabric provides five services – Service bus, Access, Caching, Integration, and Composite.

What is a Web role in Azure Cloud Service?

A web role in Azure is a virtual machine instance running Microsoft IIS Web server that can accept and respond to HTTP or HTTPS requests.