16 questions · from 1 interviews
Albertsons interview questions
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Albertsons system design questions
- 01
Design highly available application in Azure
How to design a highly available application in Azure?
- 02
Handling 5x traffic spike
There is a 5x traffic to be expected on a specific occasion on website, what steps as a devops engineer you need to take to make sure systems are reliable and scalable.
- 03
Investigating drop in request volume
Generally on normal days 5k requests come and hit the website but from last few days, the requests are dropped down to 4k - how you will find the root cause for this?
- 04
Persisting data in AKS
Your application is using AKS - the data needs to be persisted. What you will do to achieve the same?
- 05
Monitoring 3-tier Azure web application
There is a 3 tier web application deployed on azure. How you make sure the application is monitored properly (name services which you will use to achieve the same).
- 06
Explain CI/CD pipeline workflow
Explain the process workflow of pipeline from developer commit till release.
- 07
Blue‑green deployment issue handling
What release strategy do you use in your organization. Follow up - Suppose blue green deployment is the strategy, green deployment was successful but blue deployment stucks - what steps you will take to mitigate it.
- 08
Resolving Jenkins pipeline failure at 90%
Jenkins release pipeline failed at 90%, how you will resolve it considering release window deadline.
- 09
Tagging and rollback in Jenkins pipeline
How you enable tagging to Jenkins pipeline and in case of rollback to previous tag, what command is used.
- 10
Autoscaling queue‑based system
Explain queue-based system. Scenario - You might see an unnecessarily high number of queues, how to design autoscaling correctly to avoid that problem.
- 11
Configure Kubernetes HPA for CPU >70%
How to configure a Kubernetes HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaler) to scale when CPU utilization is greater than 70%.
Albertsons other questions
- 01
Python decorator for retry
Write a python script (decorator) that retries a function up to 3 times if it raises an exception.
- 02
Bash script to archive logs
Write a bash script to archive logs older than 7 days.
- 03
Optimizing email query and indexing
A query taking unnecessary time to find email, how to prevent it. Follow up - how to create an index for the same.
- 04
Mitigating CrashLoopBackOff pod
A pod went to CrashLoopBackOff, how to mitigate it.
- 05
Azure CLI to create resource group and storage account
Azure CLI to create a resource group in specific location (us-east) and create a storage account with name "Demo" in hottier.
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What questions are asked in Albertsons interviews?
Candidates reported 16 distinct questions across 1 Albertsons interviews. 11 system design questions, 5 other questions.