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Personal account of hands on experience using public cloud providers and the concrete results delivered. Candidates should describe specific services and patterns they used for compute, storage, networking, managed databases, serverless and eventing, and explain their role in architecture decisions, deployments, automation and infrastructure as code practices, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, container orchestration, scaling and performance tuning, monitoring and incident response, and cost management. Interviewees should quantify outcomes when possible with metrics such as latency reduction, cost savings, availability improvements or deployment frequency and note any formal training or certifications. This topic evaluates depth of practical experience, ownership, and the ability to operate and improve cloud systems in production.

HardTechnical
56 practiced
At enterprise scale, how would you implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices across many teams? Describe module design and reuse, remote state backends and locking, testing (unit and integration), secrets handling, policy as code (prevent unsafe changes), and how to onboard teams while preventing drift and sprawl.
MediumTechnical
39 practiced
Describe how to set up a secure CI/CD pipeline that enforces secure secrets handling, performs container image scanning, generates SBOMs for images, and automatically rolls back deployments when security gates fail. Include integration points with secret stores, artifact registries, and policy-as-code enforcement.
EasyTechnical
34 practiced
Provide a short Terraform HCL example (conceptual rather than full production-ready code) that provisions an object storage bucket with versioning enabled and a lifecycle rule to transition objects to infrequent access after 30 days. Explain the key fields and how you would integrate this resource into a reusable IaC module and pipeline.
MediumTechnical
39 practiced
A client requires an RPO under 5 seconds and an RTO under 1 hour for a critical relational database. Recommend a cloud architecture using managed services to meet those objectives, detailing replication topology, backup schedules, failover testing, cross-region considerations and how to balance cost versus the strict RPO/RTO requirements.
MediumTechnical
41 practiced
A client wants to run a subset of critical workloads across two cloud providers for resilience. As solutions architect, describe the architecture choices for cross-cloud networking, how to synchronize data between providers, authentication patterns, and the operational complexities and costs they must be aware of.

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