• How can adopting specific Azure services (e.g., Azure Functions for specific tasks, Azure API Management for governance) potentially help in managing or isolating technical debt within an ASP.NET Core system?

  • As an architect , how would you design monitoring and alerting in Azure to proactively detect potential issues arising from technical debt (e.g., performance degradation , increasing error rates , resource exhaustion )?

  • An ASP.NET Core application uses an Azure SQL Database , but the queries generated by EF Core are inefficient , causing high DTU usage and costs (a form of technical debt ). How would you identify and refactor these queries?

  • Scenario: You need to migrate a large, legacy .NET Framework application with significant technical debt to ASP.NET Core on Azure . How does the existing debt influence your migration strategy and architectural choices?

  • Your ASP.NET Core microservices architecture has evolved, and communication patterns between services have become overly complex and tightly coupled, creating architectural debt. How would you approach refactoring this?

  • Scenario: An Azure environment supporting an ASP.NET Core application was set up manually and has experienced configuration drift . Deployments are unreliable . How would you tackle this infrastructure technical debt ?

  • Scenario: A team consistently takes shortcuts in theirASP.NET Corecode (e.g., ignoringSOLID principles, duplicating code) to meet deadlines. As a Tech Lead, how would you address this accumulation oftechnical debt?

  • You've inherited an older ASP.NET Core application running on Azure App Service. It suffers from slow performance , frequent bugs , and uses outdated NuGet packages and an older .NET Core version . How would you assess the technical debt and propose a plan to address it ?

  • Describe a situation where you deliberately incurred technical debt in anASP.NET Core/Azureproject. What was the justification, and what was the plan to address it later?

  • How do you balance the need to deliver new features against the need to pay down technical debt ? How do you communicate this trade-off to non-technical stakeholders?

  • How do you prioritize which technical debt items to address first? What factors influence this decision (e.g., risk , cost , impact on features )?

  • Describe your approach to refactoring legacy ASP.NET Core code to reduce technical debt . Mid/Senior Level

  • Whatstrategieswould you employ tomanageandreduce technical debtin an ongoingASP.NET Coreproject hosted onAzure?

  • How can Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices (e.g., using ARM templates , Bicep , Terraform ) help mitigate infrastructure technical debt in Azure ?

  • Discuss the relationship between automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end) and managing technical debt in ASP.NET Core projects.

  • How can technical debt affect the security posture of an ASP.NET Core application and its Azure infrastructure?

  • What is the impact of unaddressed technical debt on the velocity of feature development for an ASP.NET Core application?

  • Explain the concept of "architectural drift" as a form of technical debt. How might this occur in a system involving multiple ASP.NET Core microservices on Azure?

  • What tools or metrics can be used to help identify and potentially measure technical debt in an ASP.NET Core project or Azure infrastructure? (e.g., static analysis, code complexity, Azure Monitor metrics, cost analysis)

  • How do you identify technical debt in an existing ASP.NET Core codebase ? Mention specific code smells or anti-patterns in C .

  • Describe different types of technical debt (e.g., code, design, testing, infrastructure, security). How might each type appear in an ASP.NET Core/Azure solution ?

  • How can decisions made during the initial Azure resource selection (e.g., choosing specific VM sizes, App Service tiers, database types) contribute to technical debt later? Mid Level

  • What are the common causes of technical debt in ASP.NET Core and Azure projects?(Mid/Senior Level)

  • How does technical debt typically manifest itself in an ASP.NET Core application hosted on Azure ? What are the symptoms?

  • What are some examples of infrastructure technical debt that can accumulate in an Azure environment ?