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- An application works perfectly in one Availability Zone but intermittently fails in another. What AWS networking components would you verify first? — 5× · Medium
- During an infrastructure audit, what AWS configurations do you review before approving a production release? — 5× · Hard
- How do you connect to an EC2 instance using SSH? — 5× · Medium
- AWS/Azure/GCP — 4× · Medium · tags:
Azure,GCP - What are the major AWS services you have worked on? — 4× · Easy
- AWS — 3× · Medium
- What is Amazon S3? — 3× · Easy
- Write an example for lambda expression. — 3× · Medium
- An AWS EC2 instance becomes unreachable. What's your recovery plan? — 2× · Medium
- AWS EC2 — 2× · Medium
- Can you explain AWS architecture? — 2× · Hard · tags:
System Design - Can you explain S3 standard and S3 glacier ? — 2× · Medium
- Difference between public and private subnets in AWS. — 2× · Easy
- Difference load balancers in AWS ? — 2× · Medium
- How do you create Lambda functions and push artifacts? — 2× · Medium
- How do you perform security assessments in AWS ? — 2× · Medium
- How do you secure an S3 bucket? — 2× · Medium
- How do you troubleshoot an EC2 instance that is unreachable? — 2× · Medium
- How do you troubleshoot EC2 SSH connectivity from network to OS permissions? — 2× · Medium
- How would you design a highly available and fault-tolerant application architecture on AWS? — 2× · Hard · tags:
System Design - I have to deploy an application, In which scenario you will choose EC2 and AWS lambda ? — 2× · Medium
- Investigating unexpected AWS costs — 2× · Medium
- Is your DevOps experience primarily on AWS or other cloud platforms? — 2× · Medium
- S3 replication silently failed for 2 days. Who caught it and why? — 2× · Medium
- Tell me step by step, from basic to end level, how you deploy your Java application on an EC2 server? — 2× · Medium
- What are the major AWS services you have worked on? — 4×
- What is Amazon S3? — 3×
- Difference between public and private subnets in AWS. — 2×
- What are spot instances in Ec2 ? — 2×
- What is AWS? — 2×
- What is EC2? — 2×
- What is the use of Rote53 in AWS ? — 2×
- What are AWS Regions and Availability Zones? — 1×
- What are the different approaches to access an EC2 instance? — 1×
- What are the different AWS services you used? — 1×
- What are the different ways to push artifacts to AWS Lambda? — 1×
- What are the limitations of Lambda functions? — 1×
- What are the use cases of S3? — 1×
- What is an Amazon S3 bucket, and what are S3 Lifecycle Policies? — 1×
- What is AWS Lambda? What are its use cases? — 1×
- What is AWS Organizations? — 1×
- What is AWS Transit Gateway? — 1×
- What is AWS, and why do companies use it? — 1×
- What is S3 object size? — 1×
- What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model? — 1×
- What is the biggest domain in AWS Developer Associate exam? — 1×
- What is the minimum and maximum object size supported by Amazon S3? — 1×
- What is User Data in EC2? — 1×
- An application works perfectly in one Availability Zone but intermittently fails in another. What AWS networking components would you verify first? — 5×
- How do you connect to an EC2 instance using SSH? — 5×
- AWS/Azure/GCP — 4× · tags:
Azure,GCP - AWS — 3×
- Write an example for lambda expression. — 3×
- An AWS EC2 instance becomes unreachable. What's your recovery plan? — 2×
- AWS EC2 — 2×
- Can you explain S3 standard and S3 glacier ? — 2×
- Difference load balancers in AWS ? — 2×
- How do you create Lambda functions and push artifacts? — 2×
- How do you perform security assessments in AWS ? — 2×
- How do you secure an S3 bucket? — 2×
- How do you troubleshoot an EC2 instance that is unreachable? — 2×
- How do you troubleshoot EC2 SSH connectivity from network to OS permissions? — 2×
- I have to deploy an application, In which scenario you will choose EC2 and AWS lambda ? — 2×
- Investigating unexpected AWS costs — 2×
- Is your DevOps experience primarily on AWS or other cloud platforms? — 2×
- S3 replication silently failed for 2 days. Who caught it and why? — 2×
- Tell me step by step, from basic to end level, how you deploy your Java application on an EC2 server? — 2×
- Unable to connect to EC2 using a PEM key. What would you check? — 2×
- What AWS services are you currently using? — 2×
- What AWS services have you used? Explain your experience in detail. — 2×
- What happens when an AWS region goes down ? — 2×
- Which AWS services do you know? — 2×
- Which cloud are you using & which AWS services are you using? — 2×
- You are unable to SSH into an EC2 instance, but the instance is running and accessible through the AWS Console. How would you install a required package on that instance without using SSH? — 2×
- A developer cannot access a S3 bucket. What will you check? — 1×
- A few AWS services and their use cases. — 1×
- An application deployed on AWS suddenly becomes unavailable. How would you troubleshoot the issue step by step? — 1×
- An application gets an "Access Denied" error while accessing S3. Where would you start looking? — 1×
- An EC2 instance becomes unreachable. What steps would you follow to troubleshoot it? — 1×
- An EC2 instance is marked healthy, but users cannot access the application. How would you troubleshoot the issue? — 1×
- An EC2 instance is running at 100% CPU. How would you investigate the issue? — 1×
- An EC2 instance suddenly becomes unreachable. How would you troubleshoot it? — 1×
- AWS / Azure Cloud Services — 1× · tags:
Azure - AWS cost and performance issues — 1×
- AWS Glue jobs fail immediately after starting. What would be your first troubleshooting step? — 1×
- AWS Lambda is failing internally. What are your debugging steps? — 1×
- AWS networking and DevOps services — 1×
- AWS provides an HTTP endpoint. How would you enable HTTPS? — 1×
- AWS/Azure Cloud Fundamentals — 1× · tags:
Azure - Can you describe your experience with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP? — 1× · tags:
Azure,GCP - Can you explain how to implement security best practices in AWS? — 1×
- Can you tell me the types of s3 storage? — 1×
- Deploy and manage applications on AWS — 1×
- Do you have experience with AWS Control Tower? — 1×
- Do you have some experience on Amazon Connect or Lambda? — 1×
- Do you hold any AWS certifications? — 1×
- EC2 suddenly refuses SSH connections. What do you verify before touching the reboot button? — 1×
- EC2 – Instance types, AMIs, Auto Scaling, Security Groups & Load Balancers — 1×
- Expalin a high scalable application in AWS ? — 1× · tags:
System Design - Explain how Auto Scaling works in AWS. — 1×
- Explain your cloud migration experience from On-Premises to AWS. — 1×
- Explain your experience designing secure AWS infrastructure. — 1×
- Files are accidentally deleted from an S3 bucket. How would you recover them? — 1×
- Have you implemented governance guardrails in AWS Organizations? — 1×
- How can you deploy EC2 instance for fault tolerance and high available applications ? — 1×
- How can you ensure cost efficient storage solution using S3 ? — 1×
- How do you approach AWS cost optimization and identify underutilized resources? — 1× · tags:
FinOps - How do you create and deploy AWS Lambda functions? — 1×
- How do you ensure you are exam-ready for the AWS Developer Associate certification? — 1×
- How do you establish connectivity between on-premises and AWS? — 1×
- How do you expose a web application running on a private EC2 instance to end users? — 1×
- How do you handle an AWS networking issue? — 1×
- How do you implement Load Balancing in AWS? — 1×
- How do you implement Microservices with React and AWS? — 1×
- How do you manage state across AWS accounts/regions? — 1×
- How do you monitor AWS applications? Which tools, metrics, and alerts do you consider essential? — 1×
- How do you prepare for the AWS Developer Associate exam? — 1×
- How do you secure an AWS environment? — 1×
- How do you securely manage application secrets in AWS? — 1×
- How do you store application data in AWS? — 1×
- How good are you in AWS? (Self-rating question.) — 1×
- How to provide access to an S3 bucket? Required permissions? — 1×
- How would you access a private EC2 instance if the private PEM key is lost and EC2 Instance Connect is not available? — 1×
- How would you enable SSM access for EC2 instances located in private subnets? — 1×
- How would you enforce cloud governance and compliance controls across multiple AWS accounts? — 1×
- How would you manage different security policies for multiple AWS accounts? — 1×
- How would you manage Infrastructure as Code for 200–300 AWS accounts? — 1×
- How would you optimize AWS costs without impacting performance? — 1×
- How would you protect applications against DDoS attacks in AWS? — 1×
- How would you provide cross-account access to an S3 bucket? — 1×
- Lambda — where does it fit compared with EC2/ECS? — 1×
- Legacy application migration to AWS — 1×
- One problem always comes when your AWS costs suddenly get increased, what would you wanna do to cross verify that? — 1×
- Reduce latency for globally distributed users accessing S3 — 1×
- Remote backend & S3 permission errors — 1×
- S3 – Storage classes, lifecycle policies, versioning & security — 1×
- Scaling EC2 instances automatically — 1×
- services of the aws cloud what are cloud services in the market? — 1×
- Suppose you have an EC2 instance via SSH, And instance is running, but it is not reachable. So, how are you gonna troubleshoot? — 1×
- Users report random application failures. Which AWS tools would you use to identify the root cause? — 1×
- What AWS services/tools do you use for security and compliance? — 1×
- What checks would you perform before moving an EC2 instance from C5 to T3 family? — 1×
- What happens when an EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling Group becomes unhealthy? — 1×
- What is the difference between a developer's and an administrator's perspective on AWS services? — 1×
- What metrics would you monitor for an EC2 instance? — 1×
- What percentage of the exam is focused on development with AWS services? — 1×
- What steps would you follow when you are unable to connect to an EC2 instance? — 1×
- Which AWS pricing model should you choose for different workloads? — 1×
- Which AWS resources have you deployed? — 1×
- Which AWS services are you currently using in your project? — 1×
- Which AWS services have you used extensively? — 1×
- Which AWS services have you worked on and where have you used them? — 1×
- Which AWS tools did you use for cost optimization, and how did you use them? — 1× · tags:
FinOps - Which cloud platform are you comfortable with (AWS, Azure, or GCP)? — 1× · tags:
Azure,GCP - Which cloud platform do you prefer working with — AWS or GCP — and why? — 1× · tags:
GCP - Why did you choose a particular EC2 instance type (such as R5 or M5) for your worker nodes? How did you justify the decision? — 1×
- Write a Lambda function for any of the use cases you want? — 1×
- You migrated AWS → Azure for cost. How do you prove the cost actually went down? — 1× · tags:
Azure - You need to deploy an EC2 instance and an S3 bucket, and output the instance public IP and bucket name. How will you do it? — 1×
- You need to update an AMI ID of an EC2 instance without downtime. How will you achieve this? — 1×
- Your application works correctly in one AWS Availability Zone but fails after traffic moves to another AZ. How would you troubleshoot the infrastructure? — 1×
- Your AWS bill suddenly spikes. How would you find out why? — 1×
- Your S3 bucket uploads suddenly start failing. What possible causes would you investigate? — 1×
- During an infrastructure audit, what AWS configurations do you review before approving a production release? — 5×
- Can you explain AWS architecture? — 2× · tags:
System Design - How would you design a highly available and fault-tolerant application architecture on AWS? — 2× · tags:
System Design - You need to provide access to an Amazon S3 object only to a specific client. How would you implement this securely? How would you ensure no one else can access the object? — 2×
- Explain EC2, NAT, and NACL together in an AWS architecture. — 1× · tags:
System Design - How would you design minimum downtime web application in AWS — 1×
- How would you handle a sudden increase in AWS traffic? — 1×
- Java Full Stack Developer (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, React, AWS) – Can you explain the differences between microservices and monolithic architecture? — 1× · tags:
System Design - Lambda – Serverless architecture, triggers, limits & use cases — 1× · tags:
System Design - Your application needs to be deployed across multiple AWS Regions. What architecture and deployment considerations would you discuss? — 1× · tags:
System Design
- What AWS services are you currently using?
- What AWS services have you used? Explain your experience in detail.
- An application works perfectly in one Availability Zone but intermittently fails in another. What AWS networking components would you verify first?
- Can you explain how to implement security best practices in AWS?
- During an infrastructure audit, what AWS configurations do you review before approving a production release?
- Do you have experience with AWS Control Tower?
- Explain your cloud migration experience from On-Premises to AWS.
- Have you implemented governance guardrails in AWS Organizations?
- How would you enable SSM access for EC2 instances located in private subnets?
- How would you enforce cloud governance and compliance controls across multiple AWS accounts?
- How would you manage different security policies for multiple AWS accounts?
- How would you manage Infrastructure as Code for 200–300 AWS accounts?
- A developer cannot access a S3 bucket. What will you check?
- A few AWS services and their use cases.
- An application deployed on AWS suddenly becomes unavailable. How would you troubleshoot the issue step by step?
- An application gets an "Access Denied" error while accessing S3. Where would you start looking?
- An AWS EC2 instance becomes unreachable. What's your recovery plan?
- An EC2 instance becomes unreachable. What steps would you follow to troubleshoot it?
- An EC2 instance is marked healthy, but users cannot access the application. How would you troubleshoot the issue?
- An EC2 instance is running at 100% CPU. How would you investigate the issue?
- An EC2 instance suddenly becomes unreachable. How would you troubleshoot it?
- AWS
- AWS / Azure Cloud Services — tags:
Azure - AWS cost and performance issues
- AWS EC2
- AWS Glue jobs fail immediately after starting. What would be your first troubleshooting step?
- AWS Lambda is failing internally. What are your debugging steps?
- AWS networking and DevOps services
- AWS provides an HTTP endpoint. How would you enable HTTPS?
- AWS/Azure Cloud Fundamentals — tags:
Azure - AWS/Azure/GCP — tags:
Azure,GCP - Can you describe your experience with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP? — tags:
Azure,GCP - Can you explain AWS architecture? — tags:
System Design - Can you explain S3 standard and S3 glacier ?
- Can you tell me the types of s3 storage?
- Deploy and manage applications on AWS
- Difference between public and private subnets in AWS.
- Difference load balancers in AWS ?
- Do you have some experience on Amazon Connect or Lambda?
- Do you hold any AWS certifications?
- EC2 suddenly refuses SSH connections. What do you verify before touching the reboot button?
- EC2 – Instance types, AMIs, Auto Scaling, Security Groups & Load Balancers
- Expalin a high scalable application in AWS ? — tags:
System Design - Explain EC2, NAT, and NACL together in an AWS architecture. — tags:
System Design - Explain how Auto Scaling works in AWS.
- Explain your experience designing secure AWS infrastructure.
- Files are accidentally deleted from an S3 bucket. How would you recover them?
- How can you deploy EC2 instance for fault tolerance and high available applications ?
- How can you ensure cost efficient storage solution using S3 ?
- How do you approach AWS cost optimization and identify underutilized resources? — tags:
FinOps - How do you connect to an EC2 instance using SSH?
- How do you create and deploy AWS Lambda functions?
- How do you create Lambda functions and push artifacts?
- How do you ensure you are exam-ready for the AWS Developer Associate certification?
- How do you establish connectivity between on-premises and AWS?
- How do you expose a web application running on a private EC2 instance to end users?
- How do you handle an AWS networking issue?
- How do you implement Load Balancing in AWS?
- How do you implement Microservices with React and AWS?
- How do you manage state across AWS accounts/regions?
- How do you monitor AWS applications? Which tools, metrics, and alerts do you consider essential?
- How do you perform security assessments in AWS ?
- How do you prepare for the AWS Developer Associate exam?
- How do you secure an AWS environment?
- How do you secure an S3 bucket?
- How do you securely manage application secrets in AWS?
- How do you store application data in AWS?
- How do you troubleshoot an EC2 instance that is unreachable?
- How do you troubleshoot EC2 SSH connectivity from network to OS permissions?
- How good are you in AWS? (Self-rating question.)
- How to provide access to an S3 bucket? Required permissions?
- How would you access a private EC2 instance if the private PEM key is lost and EC2 Instance Connect is not available?
- How would you design a highly available and fault-tolerant application architecture on AWS? — tags:
System Design - How would you design minimum downtime web application in AWS
- How would you handle a sudden increase in AWS traffic?
- How would you optimize AWS costs without impacting performance?
- How would you protect applications against DDoS attacks in AWS?
- How would you provide cross-account access to an S3 bucket?
- I have to deploy an application, In which scenario you will choose EC2 and AWS lambda ?
- Investigating unexpected AWS costs
- Is your DevOps experience primarily on AWS or other cloud platforms?
- Java Full Stack Developer (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, React, AWS) – Can you explain the differences between microservices and monolithic architecture? — tags:
System Design - Lambda – Serverless architecture, triggers, limits & use cases — tags:
System Design - Lambda — where does it fit compared with EC2/ECS?
- Legacy application migration to AWS
- One problem always comes when your AWS costs suddenly get increased, what would you wanna do to cross verify that?
- Reduce latency for globally distributed users accessing S3
- Remote backend & S3 permission errors
- S3 replication silently failed for 2 days. Who caught it and why?
- S3 – Storage classes, lifecycle policies, versioning & security
- Scaling EC2 instances automatically
- services of the aws cloud what are cloud services in the market?
- Suppose you have an EC2 instance via SSH, And instance is running, but it is not reachable. So, how are you gonna troubleshoot?
- Tell me step by step, from basic to end level, how you deploy your Java application on an EC2 server?
- Unable to connect to EC2 using a PEM key. What would you check?
- Users report random application failures. Which AWS tools would you use to identify the root cause?
- What are AWS Regions and Availability Zones?
- What are spot instances in Ec2 ?
- What are the different approaches to access an EC2 instance?
- What are the different AWS services you used?
- What are the different ways to push artifacts to AWS Lambda?
- What are the limitations of Lambda functions?
- What are the major AWS services you have worked on?
- What are the use cases of S3?
- What AWS services/tools do you use for security and compliance?
- What checks would you perform before moving an EC2 instance from C5 to T3 family?
- What happens when an AWS region goes down ?
- What happens when an EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling Group becomes unhealthy?
- What is Amazon S3?
- What is an Amazon S3 bucket, and what are S3 Lifecycle Policies?
- What is AWS Lambda? What are its use cases?
- What is AWS Organizations?
- What is AWS Transit Gateway?
- What is AWS, and why do companies use it?
- What is AWS?
- What is EC2?
- What is S3 object size?
- What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?
- What is the biggest domain in AWS Developer Associate exam?
- What is the difference between a developer's and an administrator's perspective on AWS services?
- What is the minimum and maximum object size supported by Amazon S3?
- What is the use of Rote53 in AWS ?
- What is User Data in EC2?
- What metrics would you monitor for an EC2 instance?
- What percentage of the exam is focused on development with AWS services?
- What steps would you follow when you are unable to connect to an EC2 instance?
- Which AWS pricing model should you choose for different workloads?
- Which AWS resources have you deployed?
- Which AWS services are you currently using in your project?
- Which AWS services do you know?
- Which AWS services have you used extensively?
- Which AWS services have you worked on and where have you used them?
- Which AWS tools did you use for cost optimization, and how did you use them? — tags:
FinOps - Which cloud are you using & which AWS services are you using?
- Which cloud platform are you comfortable with (AWS, Azure, or GCP)? — tags:
Azure,GCP - Which cloud platform do you prefer working with — AWS or GCP — and why? — tags:
GCP - Why did you choose a particular EC2 instance type (such as R5 or M5) for your worker nodes? How did you justify the decision?
- Write a Lambda function for any of the use cases you want?
- Write an example for lambda expression.
- You are unable to SSH into an EC2 instance, but the instance is running and accessible through the AWS Console. How would you install a required package on that instance without using SSH?
- You migrated AWS → Azure for cost. How do you prove the cost actually went down? — tags:
Azure - You need to deploy an EC2 instance and an S3 bucket, and output the instance public IP and bucket name. How will you do it?
- You need to provide access to an Amazon S3 object only to a specific client. How would you implement this securely? How would you ensure no one else can access the object?
- You need to update an AMI ID of an EC2 instance without downtime. How will you achieve this?
- Your application needs to be deployed across multiple AWS Regions. What architecture and deployment considerations would you discuss? — tags:
System Design - Your application works correctly in one AWS Availability Zone but fails after traffic moves to another AZ. How would you troubleshoot the infrastructure?
- Your AWS bill suddenly spikes. How would you find out why?
- Your S3 bucket uploads suddenly start failing. What possible causes would you investigate?
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- Infosys
- L&T Technology Services
- Oracle
- PTC
- PwC
- SpaceTech Inc.
- Swageazy
- TCS
- UST
- What are the different approaches to access an EC2 instance? — 2026-09-09
- How would you provide cross-account access to an S3 bucket? — 2026-09-09
- Lambda — where does it fit compared with EC2/ECS? — 2026-09-09
- What steps would you follow when you are unable to connect to an EC2 instance? — 2026-09-09
- How would you design a highly available and fault-tolerant application architecture on AWS? — 2026-09-09 · tags:
System Design - An EC2 instance becomes unreachable. What steps would you follow to troubleshoot it? — 2026-09-09
- Can you explain AWS architecture? — 2026-09-09 · tags:
System Design - What is AWS Lambda? What are its use cases? — 2026-09-09
- EC2 suddenly refuses SSH connections. What do you verify before touching the reboot button? — 2026-08-30
- What AWS services/tools do you use for security and compliance? — 2026-08-30
- How do you secure an AWS environment? — 2026-08-30
- What is AWS Organizations? — 2026-08-30
- Difference between public and private subnets in AWS. — 2026-08-30
- Which AWS resources have you deployed? — 2026-08-30
- AWS EC2 — 2026-08-30
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