Interview Qs asked for Cloud Security Role

1. Ansible & Configuration Management

1. What are roles in Ansible?
2. What is idempotency in configuration management?
3. Use of CI/CD tools Jenkins and Ansible in deployment automation.

2. Git & Version Control

1. What is Git rebase versus merge?
2. What is clone master branch in Git?
3. What is Git ping cherry? (Asked twice)
4. Version control workflows and Git command usage.

3. Linux / Unix Administration & Troubleshooting

1. How will you troubleshoot if a server CPU is suddenly 95% utilized?
2. How do you debug if a service is not starting in Linux?
3. How will you automate log rotation if logs are becoming too large?
4. How do you find files larger than 1 GB?
5. Which commands will you use to analyze if a system is running slow?
6. What is the first line of a Bash script called?
7. Discussion on Linux/Unix troubleshooting commands and diagnostics.
8. Best practices for system performance optimization and log management.

4. AWS / Cloud Infrastructure

1. How can you ensure automatic recovery if an EC2 instance crashes?
2. How would you migrate an on-premise application to the cloud?
3. What is the extension of a key pair file?
4. What is a droplet?
5. Fundamental cloud infrastructure components like droplets (cloud VM instances) and their management.
6. Cloud-specific operations and recovery mechanisms, notably for AWS EC2.

5. Jenkins & CI/CD

1. How will you troubleshoot if a Jenkins pipeline fails during a build stage?
2. How will you check Jenkins build logs?
3. Use of CI/CD tools Jenkins and Ansible in deployment automation.

6. Docker & Containers

1. What could be the reason if a Docker container keeps restarting?
2. How will you debug if a container is running but the application is not accessible?
3. How will you deploy an application with frontend, backend, and database through Docker?
4. Container lifecycle issues and Kubernetes troubleshooting procedures.

7. Kubernetes

1. A pod is in CrashLoopBackOff state, what will you do?
2. How would you perform rolling updates?
3. How would you troubleshoot a pod consuming too much memory?
4. What are some tools used to get data from a Kubernetes cluster?
5. What is the difference between a pod, deployment, and replica set?
6. What is Helm?
7. What is a pod? What do you do if a pod is exiting?
8. Concepts of microservices and container orchestration tools including Helm.

8. Azure / Cloud Cost Optimization

1. How would you do cost optimization in Azure?
2. Cost optimization strategies in cloud environments (Azure).

9. Python & Scripting

1. What is the with command in Python?
2. Scripting knowledge in Python and Bash relevant to automation.

10. Microservices & Architecture

1. What are microservices?
2. Concepts of microservices and container orchestration tools including Helm.

11. General Cloud / DevOps Concepts

1. Container lifecycle issues and Kubernetes troubleshooting procedures.
2. Best practices for system performance optimization and log management.
3. Cloud-specific operations and recovery mechanisms, notably for AWS EC2.
4. Fundamental cloud infrastructure components and their management.

• Fundamental cloud infrastructure components like droplets (likely referring to cloud VM instances) and their management.