Cloud

All interview questions related to Cloud

17 Questions
4 Categories
1 Beginner8 Intermediate8 Advanced
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📞 Phone Screen
Cloud Service Models
Beginner

Explain the differences between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and provide one example of each.

2 minPhone
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Purpose of Terraform State
Intermediate

What is Terraform state and why is it important to store it remotely?

2 minPhone
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Cloud Shared Responsibility Model
Intermediate

What is the cloud shared responsibility model and how do responsibilities differ between IaaS and SaaS?

2 minPhone
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Kubernetes Ingress vs Service
Intermediate

What is the difference between Kubernetes Ingress and Service, and when would you use each?

2 minPhone
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AWS vs Azure vs GCP
Intermediate

What are the key differences between AWS, Azure, and GCP offerings at a high level?

2 minPhone
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Advanced Network Troubleshooting in Cloud Environments
Advanced

Your workloads face intermittent connectivity failures across regions. Walk through your diagnostic and remediation approach.

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Optimizing Cloud Costs at Scale
Advanced

How would you design and implement a cost-optimization strategy for a large-scale multi-cloud setup?

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Cloud Disaster Recovery Planning
Advanced

How would you design a disaster recovery (DR) strategy for a critical cloud-hosted application?

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Securing Secrets in Cloud Environments
Advanced

How would you securely store and access application secrets in a cloud-native environment?

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Hybrid Cloud Networking Challenges
Advanced

What are the main challenges of hybrid cloud networking, and how would you address them?

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
KMS and Envelope Encryption Design
Advanced

Explain how you would design application-layer encryption using a cloud KMS and envelope encryption for sensitive data.

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Serverless Architecture Deep Dive
Advanced

Explain the trade-offs of building applications on a serverless architecture. When is it a good fit, and when is it not?

5 minTechnical
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Cloud Provider Outage
Advanced

Your cloud provider reports an ongoing outage in one region, affecting your services. How do you respond?

15 minScenario
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
High CPU Steal Time on VMs
Intermediate

Services on certain VMs show latency spikes correlated with CPU steal time. How do you investigate and mitigate?

10 minScenario
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Cloud API Throttling (429) Causing Failures
Intermediate

Background jobs calling a cloud provider API start failing with 429 Too Many Requests during peak hours. How do you stabilize and prevent it?

10 minScenario
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Storage IOPS Throttling
Intermediate

An application shows sudden latency spikes due to cloud storage IOPS limits being hit. How do you confirm and fix?

10 minScenario
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🤝 Behavioral & Leadership
Driving a Cost Optimization Initiative
Intermediate

Give an example of how you identified cloud cost waste and optimized it. What was the impact?

5 minBehavioral
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