Amazon Leadership Principles Questions
Demonstrate familiarity with Amazon leadership principles and how they apply to program and project decisions. Explain principles such as customer obsession, deliver results, think big, and dive deep, and practice mapping your behaviors and examples to those principles when describing trade offs, prioritization, and stakeholder influence.
HardSystem Design
64 practiced
Design a secure, scalable AWS multi-account landing zone and governance model for a large enterprise planning to migrate over three years. Cover account structure, identity and access management (SSO/roles), service control policies, centralized logging and monitoring, networking patterns, and cost guardrails. Explain how your design reflects think big, insist on highest standards, frugality, and earn trust.
EasyBehavioral
67 practiced
Tell a story when you proposed a think big initiative as a Cloud Architect, such as a new platform capability, multi-year modernization, or organizational change. Describe the vision, how you convinced stakeholders, the first concrete steps you recommended, and measurable results within 6 to 24 months.
HardSystem Design
55 practiced
Design a disaster recovery architecture across AWS and GCP for a critical service that must achieve 99.999% availability. Describe replication approach, failover orchestration, data consistency and reconciliation, cross-cloud networking, testing cadence, and cost trade-offs. Explain why multi-cloud DR is or is not the right choice and connect decisions to ALPs such as insist on highest standards and frugality.
EasyBehavioral
64 practiced
Provide an example where frugality led you to a cost-saving cloud solution that preserved reliability and scalability. Describe the technical decisions taken (for example rightsizing, reserved instances, spot instances, caching), expected versus achieved savings, and the trade-offs you managed.
MediumTechnical
61 practiced
You review a design that meets functional requirements but omits disaster recovery and automated testing while leadership prioritizes speed. As the Cloud Architect, how would you persuade stakeholders to invest in higher standards? Use ALPs such as insist on the highest standards, have backbone, and deliver results in your approach and provide concrete next steps.
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