Cloud Platform Experience Questions

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

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Design an incident response automation strategy and a practical runbook for cloud production incidents that aims to reduce Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR). Include automatic detection triggers, safe automated mitigation playbooks, human-in-the-loop escalation rules, post-incident root-cause analysis steps and continuous improvement loops.

MediumSystem Design

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Design a serverless, event-driven pipeline that ingests telemetry events at 100k events/second, performs lightweight enrichment and aggregation, and writes results to analytic storage. Describe event ingestion, buffering, processing concurrency, idempotency, error handling, storage selection, observability and cost considerations for the chosen cloud provider.

MediumTechnical

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Explain how you would implement blue/green and canary deployment strategies for stateful services in a cloud environment. Cover database schema migration strategies, traffic splitting, data synchronization, rollback mechanisms and how you would automate verification before fully switching production traffic.

MediumTechnical

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A customer asks you to migrate a legacy monolith to the cloud with minimal downtime and business continuity. Outline a phased migration plan that covers an initial lift-and-shift, followed by incremental refactoring to services and adoption of managed cloud services. Include data migration approaches, cutover testing, rollback plans, and risk mitigation for each phase.

EasyTechnical

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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.

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