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Cognizant Azure Architect Interview Questions and Answers for Experienced

Updated 12 Feb 2024

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Azure Architect Interview Questions & Answers

user image Pradeep Kumar

posted on 12 Feb 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How do you handle cloud migration of .net webapp?
  • Ans. 

    Cloud migration of .NET webapp involves assessing the application, choosing the right migration strategy, and executing the migration process.

    • Assess the application to understand its dependencies, architecture, and resource requirements.

    • Choose the appropriate migration strategy: rehost, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild, or replace.

    • Prepare the target Azure environment, including creating necessary resources like virtual m...

  • Answered by AI

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Project Architecture, spark transformations used?
  • Ans. 

    The project architecture includes Spark transformations for processing large volumes of data.

    • Spark transformations are used to manipulate data in distributed computing environments.

    • Examples of Spark transformations include map, filter, reduceByKey, join, etc.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Advanced SQL questions - highest sales from each city
  • Ans. 

    Use window functions like ROW_NUMBER() to find highest sales from each city in SQL.

    • Use PARTITION BY clause in ROW_NUMBER() to partition data by city

    • Order the data by sales in descending order

    • Filter the results to only include rows with row number 1

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Data modelling - Star schema, Snowflake schema, Dimension and Fact tables
  • Q4. Databricks - how to mount?
  • Ans. 

    Databricks can be mounted using the Databricks CLI or the Databricks REST API.

    • Use the Databricks CLI command 'databricks fs mount' to mount a storage account to a Databricks workspace.

    • Alternatively, you can use the Databricks REST API to programmatically mount storage.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Questions on ADF - pipeline used in the project
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions on Databricks - optimizations, history, autoloader, liquid clustering, autoscaling

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Nothing interviewers interested about your past experience, work you handled in last project , your roles & responsibilities.
  • Ans. Just prepare everything you mentioned in your resume
  • Answered Anonymously
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Second round is with project head. Only looking for your problem handling skills & how youn present yourself. Mostly focus on your communication.
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salty discussion. Be carefully they try to give you only 20% hikes on current package. Negotiate properly.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Patching process
  • Q2. What is spn? aad
  • Ans. 

    SPN (Service Principal Name) is a unique identifier for a service or application in Azure Active Directory.

    • SPNs are used to authenticate services with Azure AD.

    • They are used for delegation and single sign-on.

    • SPNs are formatted as 'service/hostname'.

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Azure disaster recovery
  • Q2. Azure virtual machine
  • Q3. Azure Storage account
  • Q4. Azure key vault questions
  • Q5. Azure rbac and Aad
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Many questions based on azure, project mechanism, git and tfvc repo control, azure blob, service bus, difference between iaas paas saas its example
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Application insights, azure functions, kql query written, blob storage, access tier, service bus, dead letter, in depth azure discussion

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Case Study 

Various performance optimization techniques in Databricks

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Group Discussion 

Bilateral Relations between India and other countries [ Economy, Information Technology, Trade ]

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What is Kubernetes and its Architecture ?
  • Ans. 

    Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

    • Kubernetes is used to manage and automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

    • It provides a platform for running and managing containers across a cluster of machines.

    • Kubernetes architecture consists of a master node and multiple worker nodes...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Describe on HA & ASR
  • Ans. 

    HA stands for High Availability and ASR stands for Azure Site Recovery.

    • HA ensures that a system is always operational with minimal downtime.

    • ASR is a disaster recovery service that allows replication of VMs to a secondary location.

    • HA can be achieved through load balancing, clustering, and redundant hardware.

    • ASR helps in protecting applications by orchestrating the failover and failback processes.

    • Both HA and ASR are impo...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Azure Active directory and B2B

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be specific on JD but I got questions out of JD and my experience.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

It was a SQL-related question that required you to solve the problem.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare thoroughly for the interview to ensure that they cannot identify any mistakes that could lead to your rejection.

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Azure Architect interview for experienced candidates?
Cognizant interview process for experienced candidates usually has 1 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process for experienced candidates are Technical.
How to prepare for Cognizant Azure Architect interview for experienced candidates?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cognizant. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cognizant expect are Azure, Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cost Management and Cost Optimization.

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