Senior Solutions Architect Interview Questions

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Recruiter screen: • RDBMS vs NOSQL, benefits, usage • what is a 3-tier app • describe RTO and RPO Arch interview • explain a VM vs containers • Explain CICD • Something about topography • what are my main strengths • cc availability vs durability Panel questions: • name a time improved something at work, how did it. * tell a time got rough feedback * A time a team member did not perform duties * Design considerations for high distributed systems *3-tier applications * single point of failure * Database UI * Monolith vs microservices * RTO and RPO * tiered storage * leverage contanerization in apps *load balancing in apps * running a website, user complains it is slow, I am a consultant, what do I advise? * ecommerce site wants to select a new database, compare RDBMS to NOSQL, * New product, social networking platform, opinion and sentiment data ... what solution *what is CICD *when met a foal and exceeded expectations, how did I do it, what were challenges *tell time I made a bad decision * snowflake instead of Redshift *tell about a time did not meet a promised timeline * time made an important decision, did I move forward or gather more information *tell about a time I sacrificed short term gain to add value int the long run * something significant I did outside my area of expertise * tell time dug deep to get to the root cause * top 3 data challenges, what are they? * ETL vs ELT etc *Many questions about ETL vendors
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Senior Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
May 25, 2022

Recruiter screen: • RDBMS vs NOSQL, benefits, usage • what is a 3-tier app • describe RTO and RPO Arch interview • explain a VM vs containers • Explain CICD • Something about topography • what are my main strengths • cc availability vs durability Panel questions: • name a time improved something at work, how did it. * tell a time got rough feedback * A time a team member did not perform duties * Design considerations for high distributed systems *3-tier applications * single point of failure * Database UI * Monolith vs microservices * RTO and RPO * tiered storage * leverage contanerization in apps *load balancing in apps * running a website, user complains it is slow, I am a consultant, what do I advise? * ecommerce site wants to select a new database, compare RDBMS to NOSQL, * New product, social networking platform, opinion and sentiment data ... what solution *what is CICD *when met a foal and exceeded expectations, how did I do it, what were challenges *tell time I made a bad decision * snowflake instead of Redshift *tell about a time did not meet a promised timeline * time made an important decision, did I move forward or gather more information *tell about a time I sacrificed short term gain to add value int the long run * something significant I did outside my area of expertise * tell time dug deep to get to the root cause * top 3 data challenges, what are they? * ETL vs ELT etc *Many questions about ETL vendors

Q: What is the difference between a scripted and compiled language? pros and cons of each? Q: What is a federated identity? Q: How would you go about migrating a mainframe to the cloud? Q: What is IDS and IPS? Q: How does a domain name get resolved? Q: Examples of DevOps tools you have used? Q: Tell me about something you recently built for fun (tech or non-tech)? Q: Describe the overall cloud migration process. Q: What happens in the MRA? Q: What happens in the MRP? Q: What is T-shirt sizing? Q: What are the 7 Rs? Explain each… Q: What migration tools do you use? Q: What is a cloud migration factory? Q: What is a target landing zone? Q: What is MAP? Q: How long does a migration take? Q: What kind of incentives can a client expect from AWS? Q: What are some of the optimization levers during the build and run phase?
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Senior Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Nov 20, 2020

Q: What is the difference between a scripted and compiled language? pros and cons of each? Q: What is a federated identity? Q: How would you go about migrating a mainframe to the cloud? Q: What is IDS and IPS? Q: How does a domain name get resolved? Q: Examples of DevOps tools you have used? Q: Tell me about something you recently built for fun (tech or non-tech)? Q: Describe the overall cloud migration process. Q: What happens in the MRA? Q: What happens in the MRP? Q: What is T-shirt sizing? Q: What are the 7 Rs? Explain each… Q: What migration tools do you use? Q: What is a cloud migration factory? Q: What is a target landing zone? Q: What is MAP? Q: How long does a migration take? Q: What kind of incentives can a client expect from AWS? Q: What are some of the optimization levers during the build and run phase?

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