| 1 | What are the four common disaster recovery strategies on AWS, including backup and restore and pilot light? AWS › AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | AWS | AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | Intermediate |
| 2 | How does cross region backup copying in AWS Backup support disaster recovery objectives? AWS › AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | AWS | AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | Intermediate |
| 3 | How does AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery differ from traditional backup based recovery approaches? AWS › AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | AWS | AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | Advanced |
| 4 | What is the difference between Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective in disaster recovery planning? AWS › AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | AWS | AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | Beginner |
| 5 | How should an organization test and validate its disaster recovery plan to ensure it actually works during a real event? AWS › AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | AWS | AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | Advanced |
| 6 | What is AWS Backup and how does it simplify managing backups across multiple AWS services? AWS › AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | AWS | AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | Beginner |
| 7 | How do backup vaults and vault lock in AWS Backup help protect against accidental or malicious data deletion? AWS › AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | AWS | AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery | Intermediate |
| 8 | How can Storage Gateway support a disaster recovery strategy where an on premises application's data can be quickly recovered or accessed directly from AWS during an outage? AWS › AWS Storage Gateway | AWS | AWS Storage Gateway | Advanced |
| 9 | How should an organization design a comprehensive database resilience and disaster recovery strategy combining Multi-AZ, read replicas, cross region replication, and automated backups? AWS › RDS & Databases | AWS | RDS & Databases | Advanced |
| 10 | How does AWS Outposts maintain a connection to the AWS Region it is associated with? AWS › AWS Outposts & Hybrid Cloud | AWS | AWS Outposts & Hybrid Cloud | Beginner |
| 11 | What is AWS Application Migration Service, and how does it support migrating entire servers, not just databases, into AWS? AWS › AWS Database Migration Service & Application Migration | AWS | AWS Database Migration Service & Application Migration | Intermediate |
| 12 | How does a Volume Gateway provide block storage that can be used for backup or as a primary storage volume for on premises applications? AWS › AWS Storage Gateway | AWS | AWS Storage Gateway | Intermediate |
| 13 | What is a Tape Gateway, and how does it help organizations modernize their existing backup processes that rely on physical tape systems? AWS › AWS Storage Gateway | AWS | AWS Storage Gateway | Intermediate |
| 14 | How can KMS multi region keys support encryption and decryption of the same data across multiple AWS regions without needing to re encrypt data during a cross region transfer? AWS › AWS KMS & Data Encryption | AWS | AWS KMS & Data Encryption | Advanced |
| 15 | How does automated backup and point in time recovery work in RDS, and what recovery options does it provide? AWS › RDS & Databases | AWS | RDS & Databases | Intermediate |
| 16 | How does the Reliability pillar guide architectural decisions around fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and automatic recovery from failure? AWS › Well-Architected Framework | AWS | Well-Architected Framework | Intermediate |
| 17 | How does DMS support continuous data replication using change data capture to minimize downtime during a migration? AWS › AWS Database Migration Service & Application Migration | AWS | AWS Database Migration Service & Application Migration | Intermediate |
| 18 | How does a Site to Site VPN connection provide a quicker, lower cost alternative to Direct Connect for hybrid connectivity? AWS › AWS Direct Connect & Hybrid Connectivity | AWS | AWS Direct Connect & Hybrid Connectivity | Intermediate |
| 19 | How can Direct Connect and Site to Site VPN be combined to provide a highly available hybrid connectivity design? AWS › AWS Direct Connect & Hybrid Connectivity | AWS | AWS Direct Connect & Hybrid Connectivity | Intermediate |
| 20 | How do you design a multi region architecture, and what are the key challenges involved compared to a multi Availability Zone design within a single region? AWS › AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, AZs & Edge Locations) | AWS | AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, AZs & Edge Locations) | Intermediate |
| 21 | What are the key considerations for validating data integrity and application performance after completing a large scale database or application migration? AWS › AWS Database Migration Service & Application Migration | AWS | AWS Database Migration Service & Application Migration | Advanced |
| 22 | What is the AWS Well-Architected Framework and what are its six pillars? AWS › Well-Architected Framework | AWS | Well-Architected Framework | Beginner |
| 23 | What is the AWS Well-Architected Tool, and how does it help teams conduct a structured architecture review? AWS › Well-Architected Framework | AWS | Well-Architected Framework | Beginner |
| 24 | What is the difference between SQS Standard queues and FIFO queues? AWS › Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | AWS | Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | Beginner |
| 25 | What is Amazon RDS and what benefits does it provide over managing a database server yourself on EC2? AWS › RDS & Databases | AWS | RDS & Databases | Beginner |
| 26 | What is Multi-AZ deployment in RDS, and how does it improve database availability? AWS › RDS & Databases | AWS | RDS & Databases | Beginner |
| 27 | What is Amazon S3 and what makes it well suited for storing virtually unlimited amounts of data? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Beginner |
| 28 | What are the different S3 storage classes, and how do you choose the right one for a specific type of data? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Beginner |
| 29 | How do EFS mount targets work across multiple Availability Zones? AWS › Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | AWS | Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | Intermediate |
| 30 | How does EFS ensure data durability and availability? AWS › Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | AWS | Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | Intermediate |
| 31 | How does replication work in ElastiCache for Redis to provide high availability? AWS › Amazon ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached) | AWS | Amazon ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached) | Intermediate |
| 32 | What are Route 53 health checks, and how do they support failover routing? AWS › Amazon Route 53 & DNS Management | AWS | Amazon Route 53 & DNS Management | Intermediate |
| 33 | What is the difference between SNS Standard and FIFO topics? AWS › Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) | AWS | Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) | Intermediate |
| 34 | What is a dead letter queue in SQS, and why is it useful for handling failed messages? AWS › Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | AWS | Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | Intermediate |
| 35 | How can Auto Scaling Groups span multiple Availability Zones to improve application availability? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Intermediate |
| 36 | How do S3 lifecycle policies automatically transition objects between storage classes or delete them entirely based on defined rules? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Intermediate |
| 37 | What is S3 versioning, and how does it help protect against accidental object deletion or overwrite? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Intermediate |
| 38 | How does CloudFront support multi region high availability and failover for an application? AWS › Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | AWS | Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | Advanced |
| 39 | How does DynamoDB Global Tables support multi region applications? AWS › Amazon DynamoDB | AWS | Amazon DynamoDB | Advanced |
| 40 | What strategies are available for performing zero downtime upgrades of an EKS cluster's Kubernetes version? AWS › Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | AWS | Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | Advanced |
| 41 | How does data retention and replay work in Kinesis Data Streams? AWS › Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | AWS | Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | Advanced |
| 42 | What strategies help you design SQS based systems for exactly once processing semantics despite the underlying at least once delivery guarantee? AWS › Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | AWS | Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | Advanced |
| 43 | How do lifecycle hooks in Auto Scaling Groups let you customize instance launch and termination behavior? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Advanced |
| 44 | How does S3 Object Lock support compliance requirements for write once read many, or WORM, data storage? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Advanced |
| 45 | How can S3 Multi-Region Access Points and Cross-Region Replication support building a resilient, low latency, globally distributed storage architecture? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Advanced |
| 46 | How do you conduct an effective Well-Architected review for a complex, business critical workload, and what should happen with the findings afterward? AWS › Well-Architected Framework | AWS | Well-Architected Framework | Advanced |