These are MCP questions of the kind Microsoft actually asks — the patterns reported from Microsoft's AI-engineering rounds, where design trade-offs, scale and failure modes matter as much as definitions. Treat this page as a mock interview: say every answer out loud before revealing it. If one surprises you, the lesson behind it is linked at the bottom.
Microsoft MCP concept questions
Explain the host, client and server roles in MCP, and why there is one client per server.
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What is the difference between tools, resources and prompts in MCP?
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What is tool poisoning, and how would you defend an assistant that has several MCP servers connected?
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Microsoft MCP applied & hands-on questions
Your team wants to connect a popular community MCP server to an internal assistant that also has a database server connected. Write the review checklist you'd apply before approving it.
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How to use this page: Microsoft rarely asks something you've never seen — they ask a standard MCP concept and then push one level deeper ("why?", "what would you do if..."). Master the concept in the MCP course lessons, and the follow-up stops being scary.
Keep practising: What Is MCP?, Tools, Resources & Prompts, Transports and MCP Security cover what most Microsoft MCP rounds test.