| 1 | What is the role of automated smoke tests and health checks immediately after a deployment completes? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Intermediate |
| 2 | How do background services interact with health checks to signal their operational status? .NET › Background Services | .NET | Background Services | Advanced |
| 3 | What is the purpose of health check response caching and how does frequent health check polling itself impact application performance? .NET › Diagnostics & Performance | .NET | Diagnostics & Performance | Intermediate |
| 4 | What is a container health check (HEALTHCHECK instruction), and how does it differ from a Kubernetes liveness/readiness probe? .NET › Docker & Containerization | .NET | Docker & Containerization | Advanced |
| 5 | What's the difference between app.Use, app.Run, and app.Map in configuring the middleware pipeline? .NET › ASP.NET Core Middleware & Request Pipeline | .NET | ASP.NET Core Middleware & Request Pipeline | Intermediate |
| 6 | How do you conditionally apply middleware only to certain requests using UseWhen or MapWhen? .NET › ASP.NET Core Middleware & Request Pipeline | .NET | ASP.NET Core Middleware & Request Pipeline | Intermediate |
| 7 | What is the purpose of the dotnet-monitor tool, and how does it enable diagnostics in containerized/production environments? .NET › Diagnostics & Performance | .NET | Diagnostics & Performance | Intermediate |
| 8 | What is IHostedLifecycleService, and how does it provide more granular hooks than IHostedService's StartAsync/StopAsync? .NET › Background Services | .NET | Background Services | Advanced |
| 9 | How does deployment slot swapping (e.g., Azure App Service deployment slots) enable near-zero-downtime deployments? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Advanced |
| 10 | How do you implement automated rollback in a CI/CD pipeline triggered by post-deployment monitoring signals (error rate, latency)? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Advanced |
| 11 | How would you implement a startup task that must complete successfully before the Generic Host considers the application ready to serve traffic or process work? .NET › Generic Host | .NET | Generic Host | Advanced |