| 1 | What scaling policies are available in Auto Scaling Groups, such as target tracking and step scaling? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Intermediate |
| 2 | How can Auto Scaling Groups span multiple Availability Zones to improve application availability? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Intermediate |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | How can predictive scaling in Auto Scaling Groups improve upon reactive scaling policies? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Advanced |
| 5 | What is an Auto Scaling Group in AWS and what problem does it solve? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Beginner |
| 6 | What is a launch template and how is it used by an Auto Scaling Group? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Beginner |
| 7 | How do health checks work within an Auto Scaling Group to maintain a healthy fleet of instances? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Intermediate |
| 8 | How does ECS Service Auto Scaling work to handle varying application load? AWS › Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) | AWS | Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) | Advanced |
| 9 | How do Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler work together in EKS to handle scaling? AWS › Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | AWS | Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | Advanced |
| 10 | How do CloudWatch alarms work, and what actions can they automatically trigger when a threshold is breached? AWS › Monitoring (CloudWatch) | AWS | Monitoring (CloudWatch) | Beginner |
| 11 | What are EKS managed node groups, and how do they simplify worker node management? AWS › Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | AWS | Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | Intermediate |
| 12 | How does Systems Manager Patch Manager automate the process of keeping instances up to date with the latest security patches? AWS › AWS Systems Manager | AWS | AWS Systems Manager | Intermediate |
| 13 | How do EC2 placement groups help optimize instance performance for specific networking or availability requirements? AWS › EC2 & Compute | AWS | EC2 & Compute | Intermediate |
| 14 | How do target groups and health checks work together within an Application Load Balancer to route traffic only to healthy instances? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Intermediate |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | What is Redshift Concurrency Scaling, and how does it handle sudden spikes in query load? AWS › Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | AWS | Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | Advanced |
| 17 | How do you build robust, idempotent automation scripts using the AWS CLI or SDKs that can safely be run multiple times without causing errors or duplicate resources? AWS › AWS CLI & SDKs | AWS | AWS CLI & SDKs | Advanced |
| 18 | How can Systems Manager State Manager ensure that instances remain in a consistently defined configuration state over time, even after reboots or scaling events? AWS › AWS Systems Manager | AWS | AWS Systems Manager | Advanced |
| 19 | How should an organization design a comprehensive EC2 rightsizing and cost optimization strategy combining instance type selection, pricing models, and automation? AWS › EC2 & Compute | AWS | EC2 & Compute | Advanced |
| 20 | What is the Kubernetes control plane, and how does EKS manage it? AWS › Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | AWS | Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | Beginner |
| 21 | What is the main difference between the Redis and Memcached engines in ElastiCache? AWS › Amazon ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached) | AWS | Amazon ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached) | Beginner |
| 22 | What is AWS Batch and what type of workloads is it designed for? AWS › AWS Batch | AWS | AWS Batch | Beginner |
| 23 | What are Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, and how do they help reduce compute costs compared to On Demand pricing? AWS › AWS Cost Management & Billing | AWS | AWS Cost Management & Billing | Beginner |
| 24 | What is the difference between an Elastic Beanstalk application and an environment? AWS › AWS Elastic Beanstalk | AWS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Beginner |
| 25 | What is an Availability Zone, and why do AWS architectures commonly span multiple Availability Zones? AWS › AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, AZs & Edge Locations) | AWS | AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, AZs & Edge Locations) | Beginner |
| 26 | What is Amazon EC2 and what does it provide to users needing virtual compute capacity? AWS › EC2 & Compute | AWS | EC2 & Compute | Beginner |
| 27 | What are the main EC2 instance families, and how do you choose the right one for a specific workload? AWS › EC2 & Compute | AWS | EC2 & Compute | Beginner |
| 28 | What is Elastic Load Balancing and why is it important for building scalable, highly available applications? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Beginner |
| 29 | What is Amazon CloudWatch and what core capabilities does it provide for monitoring AWS resources? AWS › Monitoring (CloudWatch) | AWS | Monitoring (CloudWatch) | Beginner |
| 30 | What is request throttling in API Gateway and why is it important? AWS › Amazon API Gateway | AWS | Amazon API Gateway | Intermediate |
| 31 | What is the difference between DynamoDB's on demand and provisioned capacity modes? AWS › Amazon DynamoDB | AWS | Amazon DynamoDB | Intermediate |
| 32 | How does an ECS service maintain the desired number of running tasks? AWS › Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) | AWS | Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) | Intermediate |
| 33 | How does ElastiCache for Redis support cluster mode to scale beyond a single node's capacity? AWS › Amazon ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached) | AWS | Amazon ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached) | Intermediate |
| 34 | What is a shard in Kinesis Data Streams, and how does it affect throughput? AWS › Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | AWS | Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | Intermediate |
| 35 | How does the partition key affect how records are distributed across shards in Kinesis? AWS › Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | AWS | Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | Intermediate |
| 36 | How do consumer applications read and process data from a Kinesis Data Stream? AWS › Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | AWS | Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | Intermediate |
| 37 | How does distribution style affect query performance in Redshift? AWS › Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | AWS | Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | Intermediate |
| 38 | How do Route 53 routing policies, such as weighted and latency based routing, affect how traffic is directed? AWS › Amazon Route 53 & DNS Management | AWS | Amazon Route 53 & DNS Management | Intermediate |
| 39 | How do SageMaker endpoints support real time inference, and how do they differ from batch transform? AWS › Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | AWS | Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | Intermediate |
| 40 | 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 |
| 41 | What deployment strategies does AWS CodeDeploy support, such as in place and blue green deployments? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Intermediate |
| 42 | How does the Map state in Step Functions support processing a large collection of items in parallel or sequentially? AWS › AWS Step Functions | AWS | AWS Step Functions | Intermediate |
| 43 | How can Trusted Advisor's service limit checks help prevent unexpected application failures due to hitting an AWS account resource limit? AWS › AWS Trusted Advisor | AWS | AWS Trusted Advisor | Intermediate |
| 44 | What is the difference between On Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instance pricing models in EC2? AWS › EC2 & Compute | AWS | EC2 & Compute | Intermediate |
| 45 | What is a cold start in Lambda, and what strategies help reduce its impact on application performance? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Intermediate |
| 46 | How does Lambda concurrency work, and what is the difference between reserved concurrency and the account level concurrency limit? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Intermediate |
| 47 | What is the difference between an RDS read replica and a Multi-AZ standby instance, and when should you use each? AWS › RDS & Databases | AWS | RDS & Databases | Intermediate |
| 48 | What is a hot partition in DynamoDB and how can you avoid it? AWS › Amazon DynamoDB | AWS | Amazon DynamoDB | Advanced |
| 49 | What performance modes and throughput modes are available in EFS, and how do you choose between them? AWS › Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | AWS | Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | Advanced |
| 50 | How does SageMaker support multi model endpoints and model versioning for cost efficient deployment at scale? AWS › Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | AWS | Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | Advanced |
| 51 | How can Application Load Balancer support sticky sessions, and when is this feature actually necessary for an application? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Advanced |