diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f28243babc9..9a060c27172 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10574. Bump the maven plugin versions too -moving the numbers into
     properties. (aajisaka)
 
+    HADOOP-11441. Hadoop-azure: Change few methods scope to public.
+    (Shashank Khandelwal via cnauroth)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-11323. WritableComparator#compare keeps reference to byte array.
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/AzureNativeFileSystemStore.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/AzureNativeFileSystemStore.java
index c09176744c9..2412698490c 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/AzureNativeFileSystemStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/AzureNativeFileSystemStore.java
@@ -789,8 +789,9 @@ public class AzureNativeFileSystemStore implements NativeFileSystemStore {
         STORAGE_EMULATOR_ACCOUNT_NAME_PROPERTY_NAME,
         DEFAULT_STORAGE_EMULATOR_ACCOUNT_NAME));
   }
-
-  static String getAccountKeyFromConfiguration(String accountName,
+  
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  public static String getAccountKeyFromConfiguration(String accountName,
       Configuration conf) throws KeyProviderException {
     String key = null;
     String keyProviderClass = conf.get(KEY_ACCOUNT_KEYPROVIDER_PREFIX
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/AzureBlobStorageTestAccount.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/AzureBlobStorageTestAccount.java
index a3232372acf..b8ff912b4e1 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/AzureBlobStorageTestAccount.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/AzureBlobStorageTestAccount.java
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ public final class AzureBlobStorageTestAccount {
     return conf;
   }
 
-  static CloudStorageAccount createTestAccount()
+  public static CloudStorageAccount createTestAccount()
       throws URISyntaxException, KeyProviderException
   {
     return createTestAccount(createTestConfiguration());