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Beginner level questions on infra, network, storage, security, application development. Questions will go deeper if you're well-versed in an area. Totally no behavioral questions unlike indicated in the interview scheduling email.
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Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jul 28, 2022

Beginner level questions on infra, network, storage, security, application development. Questions will go deeper if you're well-versed in an area. Totally no behavioral questions unlike indicated in the interview scheduling email.

1. Difference between TCP & UDP 2. What is DDoS Attack. How to prevent it 3. What is container. How it is diff than HyperV 4. What is Microservice. What is its disadvantages 5. What is scaling? 6. Diff between list and tuple 7. What is CIDR? 8. How many IPs in /16 subnet 9. How to check all the running processes in Linux 10. How to expand the EBS volume 11. How to secure data in AWS 12. What is TLS and how does it work 13. What is diff between RDP and Blast protocol Mostly Networking and Compute related question.
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Senior Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Sep 1, 2022

1. Difference between TCP & UDP 2. What is DDoS Attack. How to prevent it 3. What is container. How it is diff than HyperV 4. What is Microservice. What is its disadvantages 5. What is scaling? 6. Diff between list and tuple 7. What is CIDR? 8. How many IPs in /16 subnet 9. How to check all the running processes in Linux 10. How to expand the EBS volume 11. How to secure data in AWS 12. What is TLS and how does it work 13. What is diff between RDP and Blast protocol Mostly Networking and Compute related question.

--Phone interview-- 1x technical question (45 minutes): Customer wants to deploy an e-commerce in the cloud (consumer base is small but will grow over time), please provide the components and steps. You don't have to know AWS product solutions, you can use generic term. Expect to know about the different type of EC2 instances, DBs, webserver , app server, APIs, auto scaling, HA, load balancer, DNS, CDN. different type of storage including S3, security groups , ACL , Serveless, DB data migration, etc. The technical interviewer will ask you to go deep, and will sometimes through AWS solution names ("EC2, S3,...") contrary to his first statement. Expect to be challenged on your answers with "yes or no" questions. --1x Leadership Principle question (5 minutes)-- "Tell me a time when you had to invent something for a complex problem."
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Cloud Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jan 19, 2022

--Phone interview-- 1x technical question (45 minutes): Customer wants to deploy an e-commerce in the cloud (consumer base is small but will grow over time), please provide the components and steps. You don't have to know AWS product solutions, you can use generic term. Expect to know about the different type of EC2 instances, DBs, webserver , app server, APIs, auto scaling, HA, load balancer, DNS, CDN. different type of storage including S3, security groups , ACL , Serveless, DB data migration, etc. The technical interviewer will ask you to go deep, and will sometimes through AWS solution names ("EC2, S3,...") contrary to his first statement. Expect to be challenged on your answers with "yes or no" questions. --1x Leadership Principle question (5 minutes)-- "Tell me a time when you had to invent something for a complex problem."

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