DevOps Interview Questions

• What is a statefile?
• Where do you store the statefile?
• What is a null resource in Terraform?
• CI/CD workflow.
• Terraform code to deploy an EC2 instance.
• What will appear in the Terraform plan if you comment out a resource block?
• Script to find the largest and smallest elements in an array.
• Entry point vs CMD in a Dockerfile.
• Add vs Copy in Dockerfile.
• Describe Kubernetes architecture.
• Do you know Ansible?
• Difference between Secrets and ConfigMap in Kubernetes.
• Docker lifecycle.
• What is a ReplicaSet?
• Running Kubernetes in a single-node local environment.
• How to remove a file from Git without deleting it from the filesystem.
• Discovering if a Git branch has been merged.
• Application Load Balancer vs Network Load Balancer.
• What is Route53?
• Experience with GCP Cloud.
• Difference between single and multiple Jenkins pipelines.
• Issues of using a single pipeline vs multiple pipelines in Jenkins.
• Current Jenkins version.
• Jenkins pipeline script for Terraform deployment.
• Creating 10 EC2 instances with incremental values.
• Terminating 9 EC2 instances while keeping one running.
• Connecting on-premise applications to a VPC cloud.
• Terraform taint.
• Terraform refresh.
• What happens if console resource values are changed and Terraform apply is
executed?
• Terraform module and its purpose.
• What is CloudTrail?
• Load Balancer and Auto Scaling.
• What is Databricks?
• What is DevOps, and how does it differ from traditional IT practices?
• Benefits of implementing DevOps.
• Description of the DevOps lifecycle.
• Explanation of CI/CD pipeline and its benefits.
• Importance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Tools used for configuration management and why.
• Managing version control in DevOps.
• Differences between Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Which containerization platforms have you worked with?
• How do you monitor systems in a DevOps environment? What tools do you
recommend?
• What tools have you used for CI/CD, and how do they fit into the pipeline?
• How do you handle failures during deployments?
• Explain blue-green deployments and canary deployments.
• What are some challenges with automating CI/CD, and how do you address them?
• What cloud platforms have you worked with (AWS, Azure, GCP)?
• Explain the differences between scaling horizontally and vertically.
• How do you ensure high availability in a distributed system?
• What is the role of load balancers in a cloud architecture?
• What scripting languages do you use, and for what purpose in DevOps?
• How do you automate infrastructure provisioning?
• Can you explain how you troubleshoot failed scripts or pipelines?
• What monitoring tools have you used? How do you decide which metrics to
monitor?
• How do you ensure the security of your CI/CD pipelines?
• What is your approach to handling secrets and credentials in automation scripts?
• Tell me about a challenging project you worked on in DevOps. How did you handle
it?
• Describe a time when a production system failed. What steps did you take to resolve
it?
• How would you approach onboarding a new team to a DevOps culture?
• How do you handle conflicts between development and operations teams?
• How do you keep yourself updated with the latest DevOps trends and technologies?
• What do you think is the most critical aspect of collaboration in a DevOps team?
• What scripting languages are you familiar with?
• What are artifacts in GitLab CI?
• What is a private module registry in Terraform?
• If you delete the local Terraform state file and it’s not stored in S3 or DynamoDB,
how can you recover it?
• How do you import resources into Terraform?
• What is a dynamic block in Terraform?
• How can you create EC2 instances in two different AWS accounts simultaneously
using Terraform?
• How do you handle an error stating that the resource already exists when creating
resources with Terraform?
• How does Terraform refresh work?
• How would you upgrade Terraform plugins?
• What are the different types of Kubernetes volumes?
• If a pod is in a crash loop, what might be the reasons, and how can you recover it?
• What is the difference between StatefulSet and DaemonSet?
• What is a sidecar container in Kubernetes, and what are its use cases?
• If pods fail to start during a rolling update, what strategy would you use to identify
the issue and rollback?
• How can we enable communication between 500 AWS accounts internally?
• How to configure a solution where a Lambda function triggers on an S3 upload and
updates DynamoDB?
• What is the standard port for RDP?
• How do you configure a Windows EC2 instance to join an Active Directory domain?
• How can you copy files from a Linux server to an S3 bucket?
• What permissions do you need to grant for that S3 bucket?
• What are the different types of VPC endpoints and when do you use them?
• How to resolve an image pullback error when using an Alpine image pushed to ECR
in a pipeline?
• What is the maximum size of an S3 object?
• What encryption options do we have in S3?
• Can you explain IAM user, IAM role, and IAM group in AWS?
• What is the difference between an IAM role and an IAM policy document?
• What are inline policies and managed policies?
• How can we add a load balancer to Route 53?
• What are A records and CNAME records?
• What is the use of a target group in a load balancer?
• If a target group is unhealthy, what might be the reasons?
• Can you share your screen and write a Jenkins pipeline?
• How do you write parallel jobs in a Jenkins pipeline?
• How do you store the state file, and how would you write an S3 bucket creation in
Terraform?
• Can you explain the process of creating an IAM role and attaching it to an EC2
instance?
• What is a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?
• Can you describe the purpose and functionality of Route 53?
• How do you access a private instance using a NAT gateway?
• What is the difference between CMD and ENTRYPOINT in a Dockerfile?
• What contents have you included in your Dockerfile?
• What is a Lambda function, and how does it work?
• Can you outline the stages of your Jenkins pipeline?
• How can you list the largest 10 files in a directory?
• What is a module in Terraform?
• Can you explain what a data resource is?
• What module have you developed that has been particularly useful for your team?
• What are your day-to-day activities in your current role?
• How do you troubleshoot a Docker container if it fails?
• What can you tell me about Prometheus?
• What are the steps to create custom metrics in CloudWatch?
• What are some common Linux command-line interfaces (CLI) you use daily?
• What is a Lambda function, and how does it work?
• Can you outline the stages of your Jenkins pipeline?
• How can you list the largest 10 files in a directory?
• What is a module in Terraform?
• Can you explain what a data resource is?
• What module have you developed that has been particularly useful for your team?
• What are your day-to-day activities in your current role?
• How do you troubleshoot a Docker container if it fails?
• What can you tell me about Prometheus?
• What are the steps to create custom metrics in CloudWatch?
• What are some common Linux command-line interfaces (CLI) you use daily?
• How do you access JSON data in Python?
• Have you integrated SonarQube into your CI/CD pipeline?
• How do you implement auto-scaling in AWS, and what are the configuration steps
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