Azure, revised properly
Hosting, deployment, serverless, data, security, monitoring and CI/CD — the parts a .NET developer is actually asked about. 57 questions across 8 modules in 3 categories, plus a cheat sheet and flashcards.
How to use this
Modules 02 and 03 (slots and release strategies) are the highest-value pages here — they answer the deployment question every interviewer asks. Each big question ends with a 30-second interview answer box: that's the bit to say out loud.
| If you have… | Do this |
|---|---|
| 1 day | All eight modules in order. |
| 3 hours | Modules 02 (slots), 03 (canary & blue-green), 06 (Key Vault), 07 (App Insights). |
| 1 hour | Cheat sheet → the three predict the answer boxes → the Trap boxes. |
| 20 minutes | Cheat sheet, printed, and rehearse the zero-downtime deployment chain out loud. |
The one question to be ready for
"How would you deploy a new version to production without downtime — and roll back if it goes wrong?" The full answer runs through most of this tutorial: build one artefact in a pipeline, deploy to a staging slot, keep the database migration backward-compatible, smoke test, canary a small percentage, watch Application Insights, swap — and roll back by swapping again. Modules 02, 03 and 08 cover it end to end.
"Is Key Vault 100% secure?" — no, and Module 06 explains exactly what it does and doesn't protect. "Can Functions replace your API?" — sometimes, and Module 04 gives you the criteria rather than an opinion. Both are testing judgement, not recall.
The sidebar search covers all 57 questions from any page — try "slot", "canary", "managed identity", "elastic pool", "KQL". Results link straight to the answer.