Interview Questions

  1. What is the difference between Regular and federated identities

  2. What is the difference between SQL vs NoSQL a. When would you use one over the other

  3. Explain difference between RAID 0 and RAID 1

  4. Explain how hostname gets translated to IP

  5. Explain CIDR notation and it's classes a. How many Ips exist in /16, /24, /32 b. What are different types of CIDR classes

  6. What is the difference between user authentication and token authentication

  7. What do you understand by serverless a. When would you choose lambda over ec2 and vice-versa b. What are some of the challenges of using lambda c. How would use custom libraries with lambda d. How would you approach deploying serverless applications on Kubernetes

  8. How does SSL works a. What do you know about CA

  9. Tell me about a time when you took a task that was out of your area of expertise a. How did you approach b. Why was it out of your expertise c. What kind of research and actions you took to make sure you deliver on the ask

  10. Tell me about a time when you had to push back on customer request

  11. Tell me about a time when you lead project from start to end a. What are some of the key considerations you had to make

  12. Tell me about a time when you had to introduce something new into your routine a. What challenges you faced b. How did you overcome it

  13. Explain the difference between containerization and virtualization a. How running an application in container is different from running on a vm

  14. What do you do keep yourself professionally updated

  15. What do you do for personal growth

  16. What is microservice

  17. What is CDN a. Why use CDN b. How would you setup streaming services to use CDN

  18. What is the different types of load balancing methods you know

  19. What do you know about stickiness in load balancer a. When do you use sticky sessions

  20. What do you know about recursive and iterative dns queries

  21. What will happen if I move SSL termination to origin instead of LB

  22. What is CI/CD

  23. Why would you choose AWS vs any other major cloud providers

  24. Can you run stateful applications in Kubernetes

  25. What are layer 2 and layer 3 of OSI model a. What protocols layer 2 and 3 use

  26. Why do you want to join AWS

  27. What is difference between anycast, multicast and unicast

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