| 1 | What is the structure and purpose of a .csproj file in a modern SDK-style .NET project? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Intermediate |
| 2 | What is the typical folder structure of a modern Angular project, and what does each main folder contain? Angular › Angular CLI & Project Structure | Angular | Angular CLI & Project Structure | Intermediate |
| 3 | What does `dotnet new` do, and how do you list available project templates? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Beginner |
| 4 | How do project references (<ProjectReference>) differ from package references, and how do they affect build order? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Advanced |
| 5 | What is the Angular CLI and how do you create a new project with it? Angular › Angular CLI & Project Structure | Angular | Angular CLI & Project Structure | Beginner |
| 6 | What is the purpose of the angular.json file in an Angular project? Angular › Angular CLI & Project Structure | Angular | Angular CLI & Project Structure | Beginner |
| 7 | What is a .sln (solution) file, and how does it relate to .csproj project files? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Intermediate |
| 8 | How does target framework moniker (TFM) selection, like net8.0 or net8.0-windows, affect what a project can do? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Intermediate |
| 9 | How do global.json files pin a specific .NET SDK version for a project or repository? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Intermediate |
| 10 | What is Directory.Build.props, and how does it help manage shared MSBuild settings across multiple projects in a repository? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Advanced |
| 11 | How would you use Angular CLI commands to build your project for production and analyze the resulting bundle size? Angular › Angular CLI & Project Structure | Angular | Angular CLI & Project Structure | Advanced |
| 12 | How would you structure conventional commit messages in a Node.js project, and how do they enable automated changelog generation? Node.js › Git & Project Management | Node.js | Git & Project Management | Advanced |
| 13 | What is the dotnet CLI, and what are some of its most commonly used commands? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Beginner |
| 14 | What does the `dotnet watch` command do, and how does it speed up local development? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Beginner |
| 15 | How do you add, remove, and list NuGet package references using the dotnet CLI? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Intermediate |
| 16 | What is the purpose of the Platforms folder? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Beginner |
| 17 | What is the purpose of the Platforms folder? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Beginner |
| 18 | Where do you place images, fonts, and app icons in MAUI? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Beginner |
| 19 | Where do you place images, fonts, and app icons in MAUI? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Beginner |
| 20 | What is the .NET SDK, and how does it differ from the .NET Runtime? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Beginner |
| 21 | How does multi-targeting work in the MAUI .csproj? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Intermediate |
| 22 | How do the native entry points bootstrap a MAUI app on Android and iOS? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Intermediate |
| 23 | How does multi-targeting work in the MAUI .csproj? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Intermediate |
| 24 | How do the native entry points bootstrap a MAUI app on Android and iOS? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Intermediate |
| 25 | What is the difference between framework-dependent deployment (FDD) and self-contained deployment (SCD)? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Intermediate |
| 26 | How would you generate a new component, service, or module using Angular CLI commands? Angular › Angular CLI & Project Structure | Angular | Angular CLI & Project Structure | Intermediate |
| 27 | How do you register and consume platform-specific implementations of a shared interface? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Advanced |
| 28 | How do you register and consume platform-specific implementations of a shared interface? .NET MAUI › Project Structure & App Startup | .NET MAUI | Project Structure & App Startup | Advanced |
| 29 | What is the difference between dotnet build, dotnet publish, and dotnet run? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Advanced |
| 30 | What are MSBuild properties and items, and how do they control the build process? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Advanced |
| 31 | What is Native AOT (Ahead-of-Time) compilation, and what are its benefits and constraints? .NET › .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | .NET | .NET CLI, SDK & Project Structure (csproj) | Advanced |
| 32 | How is the folder structure organized differently between the App Router and the Pages Router? Next.js › Next.js Project Setup & Configuration | Next.js | Next.js Project Setup & Configuration | Intermediate |
| 33 | What is the purpose of the App.razor and Routes.razor components in a Blazor project's overall structure? ASP.NET Core › Blazor Integration with ASP.NET Core | ASP.NET Core | Blazor Integration with ASP.NET Core | Beginner |
| 34 | What does organizing a Flutter project using a feature based folder structure actually mean, and how does it differ from the more common default approach of organizing files strictly by their specific type? Flutter › Flutter App Architecture with Modular Feature Folders | Flutter | Flutter App Architecture with Modular Feature Folders | Beginner |
| 35 | What is the basic folder structure of a typical Flutter plugin project, and how does it separate the shared Dart interface from each individual platform's own specific native implementation? Flutter › Flutter Plugin & Package Development | Flutter | Flutter Plugin & Package Development | Beginner |
| 36 | How would you design a route structure and constraint strategy for a large, RESTful API with deeply nested resource hierarchies (like organizations/{orgId}/projects/{projectId}/tasks/{taskId})? ASP.NET Core › Endpoint Metadata, Route Constraints & Templates | ASP.NET Core | Endpoint Metadata, Route Constraints & Templates | Advanced |
| 37 | How would you decide between using the XML data type and the JSON functions available in SQL Server for a new project that needs to store semi structured data? SQL Server › XML Data Type & Querying | SQL Server | XML Data Type & Querying | Advanced |
| 38 | What is the 'single project' concept in MAUI? .NET MAUI › Fundamentals & Architecture | .NET MAUI | Fundamentals & Architecture | Beginner |
| 39 | What is the 'single project' concept in MAUI? .NET MAUI › Fundamentals & Architecture | .NET MAUI | Fundamentals & Architecture | Beginner |
| 40 | Should a brand-new .NET project in 2026 ever target .NET Framework instead of modern .NET? .NET › .NET vs .NET Framework | .NET | .NET vs .NET Framework | Beginner |
| 41 | What is the typical CI/CD pipeline structure for a .NET application? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Beginner |
| 42 | What is the Angular animations module and how do you enable it in a project? Angular › Angular Animations | Angular | Angular Animations | Beginner |
| 43 | Why is it important to set a bundle size budget in an Angular project's configuration? Angular › Build, Environments & Deployment | Angular | Build, Environments & Deployment | Beginner |
| 44 | What is a Progressive Web App, and how do you add PWA support to an existing Angular project? Angular › Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with Angular | Angular | Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with Angular | Beginner |
| 45 | How does packages.config differ from PackageReference, and which is used in Framework versus modern .NET projects? .NET › .NET vs .NET Framework | .NET | .NET vs .NET Framework | Intermediate |
| 46 | How do you create and publish your own NuGet package from a class library project? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Intermediate |
| 47 | What are NuGet package sources, and how do you configure a project to pull packages from a private/internal feed alongside NuGet.org? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Intermediate |
| 48 | How does .dockerignore improve Docker build performance and image cleanliness for .NET projects? .NET › Docker & Containerization | .NET | Docker & Containerization | Intermediate |
| 49 | How does the IExceptionHandler interface (introduced in .NET 8) provide a more structured alternative to the UseExceptionHandler lambda approach? .NET › Global Exception Handling & Middleware | .NET | Global Exception Handling & Middleware | Intermediate |
| 50 | How do you define a gRPC service contract using Protocol Buffers (.proto files), and how does code generation work in a .NET project? .NET › gRPC Services | .NET | gRPC Services | Intermediate |
| 51 | How would you use Angular's automatic update schematics to upgrade a project to a new major version? Angular › Angular Schematics & Custom Builders | Angular | Angular Schematics & Custom Builders | Intermediate |
| 52 | How would you optimize a Docker image build for a solution with multiple .NET projects sharing common dependencies, to maximize layer cache reuse? .NET › Docker & Containerization | .NET | Docker & Containerization | Advanced |
| 53 | How would you set up a continuous deployment pipeline for an Angular project? Angular › Build, Environments & Deployment | Angular | Build, Environments & Deployment | Advanced |
| 54 | What is infrastructure as code (IaC), and how might a Node.js team use a tool like Terraform or the AWS CDK alongside their application code? Node.js › Cloud & DevOps | Node.js | Cloud & DevOps | Intermediate |
| 55 | How would you structure a large Express application using the Router to organize routes into feature-based or resource-based modules? Node.js › Express & Middleware | Node.js | Express & Middleware | Advanced |
| 56 | How do you write platform-specific code in shared files? .NET MAUI › Platform Integration & Handlers | .NET MAUI | Platform Integration & Handlers | Beginner |
| 57 | How do you write platform-specific code in shared files? .NET MAUI › Platform Integration & Handlers | .NET MAUI | Platform Integration & Handlers | Beginner |
| 58 | What is the fundamental difference between .NET (formerly .NET Core) and .NET Framework? .NET › .NET vs .NET Framework | .NET | .NET vs .NET Framework | Beginner |
| 59 | What is an assembly in .NET, and what does it contain? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Beginner |
| 60 | What is NuGet, and what problem does it solve for .NET developers? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Beginner |
| 61 | What is the difference between continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment/delivery (CD)? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Beginner |
| 62 | What are the official .NET Docker base images, and what's the difference between the sdk, aspnet, and runtime image variants? .NET › Docker & Containerization | .NET | Docker & Containerization | Beginner |
| 63 | What is the Generic Host in .NET, and what problem does it standardize across different application types? .NET › Generic Host | .NET | Generic Host | Beginner |
| 64 | What is CIL (Common Intermediate Language), and what role does it play between source code and execution? .NET › CLR & Runtime | .NET | CLR & Runtime | Beginner |
| 65 | What is a simple real world example of when Angular Elements would be useful? Angular › Angular Elements (Web Components) | Angular | Angular Elements (Web Components) | Beginner |
| 66 | What is an Angular schematic and how does it relate to the ng generate command? Angular › Angular Schematics & Custom Builders | Angular | Angular Schematics & Custom Builders | Beginner |
| 67 | What is the official Angular style guide, and why is it useful for a team? Angular › Angular Style Guide & Best Practices | Angular | Angular Style Guide & Best Practices | Beginner |
| 68 | How do you create a production build of an Angular app? Angular › Build, Environments & Deployment | Angular | Build, Environments & Deployment | Beginner |
| 69 | How would you migrate an existing component from asterisk ngIf and asterisk ngFor to the new control flow syntax? Angular › New Control Flow Syntax (@if, @for & @switch) | Angular | New Control Flow Syntax (@if, @for & @switch) | Beginner |
| 70 | How do you check your Angular app's actual bundle size and find opportunities to reduce it? Angular › Performance & Lazy Loading | Angular | Performance & Lazy Loading | Beginner |
| 71 | What is server side rendering in Angular, and why would a team enable it using Angular Universal? Angular › Server-Side Rendering with Angular Universal | Angular | Server-Side Rendering with Angular Universal | Beginner |
| 72 | What are the main benefits of adding server side rendering to an Angular app? Angular › Server-Side Rendering with Angular Universal | Angular | Server-Side Rendering with Angular Universal | Beginner |
| 73 | How do you bootstrap an Angular application using only standalone components, without a root NgModule? Angular › Standalone Components | Angular | Standalone Components | Beginner |
| 74 | What are Jasmine and Karma, and what role does each play in testing an Angular app? Angular › Testing with Jasmine & Karma | Angular | Testing with Jasmine & Karma | Beginner |
| 75 | What does strict mode in Angular's TypeScript configuration do, and why is it recommended? Angular › TypeScript with Angular | Angular | TypeScript with Angular | Beginner |
| 76 | How do namespaces and using directives change from Xamarin.Forms to MAUI? .NET MAUI › Migration from Xamarin.Forms | .NET MAUI | Migration from Xamarin.Forms | Intermediate |
| 77 | How do namespaces and using directives change from Xamarin.Forms to MAUI? .NET MAUI › Migration from Xamarin.Forms | .NET MAUI | Migration from Xamarin.Forms | Intermediate |
| 78 | What is .NET Standard, and why is it less relevant now compared to a few years ago? .NET › .NET vs .NET Framework | .NET | .NET vs .NET Framework | Intermediate |
| 79 | Can .NET Framework and modern .NET applications be run side by side on the same machine, and how does that work? .NET › .NET vs .NET Framework | .NET | .NET vs .NET Framework | Intermediate |
| 80 | How does language version support differ between .NET Framework and modern .NET, specifically regarding C# language features? .NET › .NET vs .NET Framework | .NET | .NET vs .NET Framework | Intermediate |
| 81 | How does NuGet resolve version conflicts when two packages depend on different versions of the same transitive dependency? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Intermediate |
| 82 | What is the difference between a NuGet package's dependency group targeting different frameworks, and why do multi-targeted packages need this? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Intermediate |
| 83 | What is a NuGet lock file (packages.lock.json), and what problem does it solve for reproducible builds? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Intermediate |
| 84 | How does Blazor WebAssembly's initial load performance compare to Blazor Server, and what techniques mitigate WASM's larger download size? .NET › Blazor (Server & WebAssembly) | .NET | Blazor (Server & WebAssembly) | Intermediate |
| 85 | How do you configure a GitHub Actions workflow to build, test, and publish a .NET application? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Intermediate |
| 86 | What is the purpose of separate build and release pipelines (or stages), and why shouldn't you rebuild the application for each deployment environment? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Intermediate |
| 87 | How do you version and tag Docker images for a .NET application as part of a CI/CD pipeline? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Intermediate |
| 88 | What is the difference between dotnet publish's --self-contained and framework-dependent options in the context of container image builds? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Intermediate |
| 89 | What is JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation, and how does it differ from ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation? .NET › CLR & Runtime | .NET | CLR & Runtime | Intermediate |
| 90 | What is user secrets (dotnet user-secrets), and why should it only be used for local development, never production? .NET › Configuration & Options | .NET | Configuration & Options | Intermediate |
| 91 | How does the command-line configuration provider let you override settings via arguments when running an application? .NET › Configuration & Options | .NET | Configuration & Options | Intermediate |
| 92 | How do third-party DI containers like Autofac integrate with ASP.NET Core's built-in DI abstractions? .NET › Dependency Injection | .NET | Dependency Injection | Intermediate |
| 93 | How does a multi-stage Dockerfile reduce the final image size for a .NET application, and what does each stage typically do? .NET › Docker & Containerization | .NET | Docker & Containerization | Intermediate |
| 94 | How do you configure a .NET application inside a container to listen on the correct port, and what does ASPNETCORE_URLS control? .NET › Docker & Containerization | .NET | Docker & Containerization | Intermediate |
| 95 | What is the difference between Host.CreateApplicationBuilder and the older Host.CreateDefaultBuilder? .NET › Generic Host | .NET | Generic Host | Intermediate |
| 96 | What is the role of IHostLifetime, and how does it differ across console applications, Windows Services, and containers? .NET › Generic Host | .NET | Generic Host | Intermediate |
| 97 | What is user secrets (dotnet user-secrets), and why should it be used only for local development, never production? ASP.NET Core › Configuration & Options Pattern | ASP.NET Core | Configuration & Options Pattern | Intermediate |
| 98 | How does the command-line configuration provider let you override settings via arguments when running an application, and what's its precedence? ASP.NET Core › Configuration & Options Pattern | ASP.NET Core | Configuration & Options Pattern | Intermediate |
| 99 | What are Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core, and when would you choose them over traditional MVC controllers? .NET › ASP.NET Core Middleware & Request Pipeline | .NET | ASP.NET Core Middleware & Request Pipeline | Intermediate |
| 100 | What is an Angular CLI builder, and how does it differ from a schematic? Angular › Angular Schematics & Custom Builders | Angular | Angular Schematics & Custom Builders | Intermediate |
| 101 | How do environment files work in Angular, and how do you use different values for development and production? Angular › Build, Environments & Deployment | Angular | Build, Environments & Deployment | Intermediate |
| 102 | What are some popular hosting options for deploying an Angular app, and how do they differ? Angular › Build, Environments & Deployment | Angular | Build, Environments & Deployment | Intermediate |
| 103 | What is a web app manifest file, and what does it control for a Progressive Web App? Angular › Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with Angular | Angular | Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with Angular | Intermediate |
| 104 | What are the main benefits of removing Zone.js from an Angular application? Angular › Zoneless Change Detection & Zone.js | Angular | Zoneless Change Detection & Zone.js | Intermediate |
| 105 | What is the release cadence and Long-Term Support (LTS) model for modern .NET, and how does it differ from Framework's release history? .NET › .NET vs .NET Framework | .NET | .NET vs .NET Framework | Advanced |
| 106 | How do minimal API endpoint filters (IEndpointFilter) compare to traditional middleware for cross-cutting logic? .NET › ASP.NET Core Middleware & Request Pipeline | .NET | ASP.NET Core Middleware & Request Pipeline | Advanced |
| 107 | What is Central Package Management (CPM) in NuGet, and how does Directory.Packages.props centralize version control? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Advanced |
| 108 | How does semantic versioning apply to NuGet packages, and what do version range operators like [1.0,2.0) mean? .NET › Assemblies & NuGet | .NET | Assemblies & NuGet | Advanced |
| 109 | What is the purpose of a multi-stage Dockerfile for .NET applications, and how does it reduce final image size? .NET › CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | .NET | CI/CD, Publishing & Deployment | Advanced |
| 110 | Why does copying only the .csproj file before the rest of the source code in a Dockerfile improve build caching? .NET › Docker & Containerization | .NET | Docker & Containerization | Advanced |
| 111 | What is Native AOT's benefit for containerized .NET applications specifically, beyond the general startup time improvement? .NET › Docker & Containerization | .NET | Docker & Containerization | Advanced |
| 112 | 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 |
| 113 | How do EF Core migrations work, and what is the recommended workflow for applying them safely in production? .NET › Entity Framework Core & Data Access | .NET | Entity Framework Core & Data Access | Advanced |
| 114 | How would you build a console application that supports both interactive command execution and long-running hosted service behavior using the Generic Host? .NET › Generic Host | .NET | Generic Host | Advanced |
| 115 | How does the Generic Host's DI container differ from a full-featured third-party container in terms of the features it deliberately omits? .NET › Generic Host | .NET | Generic Host | Advanced |
| 116 | How do third-party DI containers like Autofac integrate with ASP.NET Core's built-in DI abstractions, and why would a team choose one? ASP.NET Core › Dependency Injection | ASP.NET Core | Dependency Injection | Advanced |
| 117 | How would you create a custom schematic to generate a component following your own team's specific conventions? Angular › Angular Schematics & Custom Builders | Angular | Angular Schematics & Custom Builders | Advanced |
| 118 | How does Module Federation, a popular tool used with micro frontends, let separate Angular applications share code at runtime? Angular › Micro Frontends with Angular | Angular | Micro Frontends with Angular | Advanced |
| 119 | What performance benefits does the new control flow syntax offer compared to the older structural directives? Angular › New Control Flow Syntax (@if, @for & @switch) | Angular | New Control Flow Syntax (@if, @for & @switch) | Advanced |
| 120 | What browser specific APIs commonly cause problems when running Angular code on the server, and how do you handle them safely? Angular › Server-Side Rendering with Angular Universal | Angular | Server-Side Rendering with Angular Universal | Advanced |