Amazon Web Services (AWS) Interview Questions and Answers

By Tech Interviews

150+ AWS Interview Questions & Answers

 

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Amazon Web Services is one of the leader in cloud computing. Approx 33.8% of companies are using AWS cloud which opens up this space for lot of cloud engineers. If you are preparing for AWS Certification or an interview or want to gain knowledge around AWS, this book is for you.

This workbook contains extensive set of AWS Interview questions and answers that can help clear your understanding on the topic and also help in responding to questions posed by an interviewer. With the difficulty level of questions ranging from low to high, we intend to cater to the requirements of masses.

 

This guide will benefit:

• A beginner who has never faced any AWS specific or Cloud Engineer interview
• Anyone who wants a brief on Amazon Web Services
• Anyone who is looking to clear AWS certification
• Professional who want answers with examples and explanation
• One who don't know what "They" really want to hear….

How should you read this book?

 

You have to first do a slow reading of all the questions in this book. Once you go through them in the first pass, mark the questions that you could not answer by yourself. Then, in second pass go through only the difficult questions. After going through this book 2-3 times, you will be well prepared to face a technical interview for AWS Certification or Interview or Cloud Computing Engineer Interview.

 

What are the sample questions in this book?

 

1) List backup types supported by Amazon RDS?

2) Explain what is DynamoDB Mapper Class?

3) List types of secondary indexes supported by Amazons DynamoDB?

4) How to create local secondary indexes?

5) What is upkeep window in Amazon RDS? Will your DB occasion be accessible throughout upkeep occasions?

6) How does Amazon Route 53 present excessive availability and low latency?

7) What are the managed insurance policies in AWS IAM?

8) How do you secure Amazon EC2 instances running within My VPC?

9) How will you differentiate between VPC security groups and VPC network ACLs?

10) What problems have you faced while working with Amazon Redshift?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tech Interviews
• Release date: Jun 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393354352

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AWS Interview Questions and Answers

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Preface

THIS WORKBOOK CONTAINS extensive set of AWS questions and answers that can help clear your understanding on the topic and also help in responding to questions posed to an interviewee. With the difficulty level of questions ranging from low to high, we intend to cater to the requirements of masses. 

We've identified that in today's competitive careers job market, it is essential that one should structure his/her responses in line with the questions asked. This guide exactly helps you in this area. It will show you how to do this to great effect.

The motto behind writing this book is to provide the readers a crisp yet extensive and complete set of questions asked in interviews. I’ve provided clear explanation with question and answers to make concepts clear.

After going through this book, you will have clarity on the basics, structure and usage of AWS (Amazon Web Services). Also, you’ll be competitive enough to crack most of the interviews.

This book is not only for AWS Practitioner but also for those who are interested in some brief of AWS. We understand the need of good and quick technology knowledge for our jobs and also for interviews.  I hope you will like this book which will inspire us to publish more helpful books for you.

Who Needs This Book? 

THIS GUIDE WILL BENEFIT:

A beginner who has never faced any AWS specific or Cloud Engineer interview

Anyone who wants a brief on Amazon Web Services

Anyone who is looking to clear AWS certification

Professional who want answers with examples and explanation

One who don’t know what They really want to hear....

Need How To tips, phrases, and words for answering job interview questions

Question 1:

What is Amazon EC2?

Answer:

EC2 is short for Elastic Compute Cloud, and it provides scalable computing capacity. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates the need to invest in hardware, leading to faster development and deployment of applications. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as needed, configure security and networking, and manage storage. It can scale up or down to handle changes in requirements, reducing the need to forecast traffic. EC2 provides virtual computing environments called instances.

Question 2:

What is Amazon S3? 

Answer:

S3 is short for Simple Storage Service, and it is the most supported storage platform available. S3 is object storage that can store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. Despite that versatility, it is