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A cloud engineer candidate at a 200-person fintech in Austin lost a final-round Azure loop in March 2026 over one follow-up: what actually happens to every VM, NSG, and storage account inside a resource group if someone runs az group delete --yes<\/code> without a lock in place. She’d nailed every ARM template question up to that point. Then the interviewer asked what stops that command from wiping out production by accident, and the answer just wasn’t there.<\/p>\n

Azure still trails AWS for enterprise adoption, but not by much. In a survey of 753 cloud decision-makers this year, 83 percent of enterprises said they’re running some or significant workloads on AWS, against 79 percent on Azure, according to Flexera’s 2026 State of the Cloud Report (Flexera, 2026<\/a>). A four-point gap is close enough that most cloud and DevOps roles in 2026 expect you to know Azure cold, not as a fallback for missing an AWS offer.<\/p>\n

Here’s an opinion that might be wrong: I think Bicep questions get asked more often than they should. Microsoft has pushed Bicep hard since 2021, and it’s a genuinely cleaner authoring experience than raw ARM JSON (Microsoft Learn, Bicep overview<\/a>). But most enterprise Azure estates still running production infrastructure in 2026 have thousands of lines of ARM JSON from 2019 that nobody’s rewritten and nobody wants to touch. Testing a candidate purely on Bicep syntax skips the harder, more common skill: reading a legacy ARM template you didn’t write and safely changing one parameter without breaking the other forty resources hanging off it.<\/p>\n

This page covers the Azure interview questions that show up across real 2026 loops for cloud and DevOps roles: core Resource Manager concepts, VMs, storage accounts, Entra ID and identity, networking, Azure Functions, App Service, AKS, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and a handful of scenario questions that mix two or three topics into one problem.<\/p>\n

55<\/span>Questions<\/span><\/div>
Compute & Identity<\/span>Core Topic<\/span><\/div>
ARM JSON vs Bicep<\/span>IaC Format<\/span><\/div>
79%<\/span>Azure enterprise adoption<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

Core Azure concepts: regions, resource groups, and Resource Manager<\/h2>\n

Every Azure loop opens here, even for senior candidates. It reads as throat-clearing, but a shaky answer on resource groups is usually the first thing that makes an interviewer start probing harder on everything that follows.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Easy questions<\/h2>9<\/span><\/div>
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