| 1 | What is AWS Lambda and how does the serverless computing model differ from traditional server based applications? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Beginner |
| 2 | How should an organization approach designing observability and error handling for a complex, multi function serverless architecture built on Lambda? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Advanced |
| 3 | How do Lambda layers help share common code and dependencies across multiple functions without duplicating that code in every deployment package? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Intermediate |
| 4 | What event sources can trigger a Lambda function to execute, and how does this support building event driven applications? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Beginner |
| 5 | What is a cold start in Lambda, and what strategies help reduce its impact on application performance? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Intermediate |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | How does Lambda support running functions within a VPC, and what performance considerations does this introduce compared to functions that do not need VPC access? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Advanced |
| 8 | What is AWS SAM and how does it simplify building and deploying serverless applications? AWS › AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | AWS | AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | Beginner |
| 9 | What is the SAM CLI, and how does it support local testing of serverless applications before deployment? AWS › AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | AWS | AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | Beginner |
| 10 | How does the sam build and sam deploy workflow package and deploy a serverless application to AWS? AWS › AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | AWS | AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | Intermediate |
| 11 | How does SAM support safe, gradual Lambda deployments using traffic shifting and automatic rollback? AWS › AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | AWS | AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | Intermediate |
| 12 | How does SAM support nested applications and reusable components through the AWS Serverless Application Repository? AWS › AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | AWS | AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | Advanced |
| 13 | How should a beginner decide between using a serverless service like Lambda versus a traditional compute service like EC2 for a new application? AWS › Core Services Overview | AWS | Core Services Overview | Intermediate |
| 14 | How does RDS Proxy help applications manage database connections more efficiently, particularly for serverless architectures using Lambda? AWS › RDS & Databases | AWS | RDS & Databases | Advanced |
| 15 | How can GuardDuty findings be automatically remediated using EventBridge and Lambda for a faster incident response? AWS › AWS Security Hub & GuardDuty | AWS | AWS Security Hub & GuardDuty | Intermediate |
| 16 | How do Lambda at Edge and CloudFront Functions extend the capabilities of a CloudFront distribution? AWS › Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | AWS | Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | Advanced |
| 17 | How does EFS integrate with AWS Lambda and containerized workloads like ECS? AWS › Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | AWS | Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | Advanced |
| 18 | How does SQS integrate with Lambda for event driven message processing, including batching behavior? AWS › Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | AWS | Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | Advanced |
| 19 | How can custom Config rules built with Lambda functions evaluate complex, organization specific compliance requirements that AWS managed rules do not cover? AWS › AWS Config | AWS | AWS Config | Advanced |
| 20 | What is Amazon API Gateway and why is it used? AWS › Amazon API Gateway | AWS | Amazon API Gateway | Beginner |
| 21 | What are the different types of APIs you can build with API Gateway? AWS › Amazon API Gateway | AWS | Amazon API Gateway | Beginner |
| 22 | What is Amazon DynamoDB and what type of database is it? AWS › Amazon DynamoDB | AWS | Amazon DynamoDB | Beginner |
| 23 | What is Amazon EventBridge and what problem does it solve? AWS › Amazon EventBridge | AWS | Amazon EventBridge | Beginner |
| 24 | What types of endpoints can subscribe to an SNS topic? AWS › Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) | AWS | Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) | Beginner |
| 25 | What is Amazon SQS and why is it used to decouple application components? AWS › Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | AWS | Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | Beginner |
| 26 | What is AWS Step Functions and what problem does it solve for coordinating multi step workflows? AWS › AWS Step Functions | AWS | AWS Step Functions | Beginner |
| 27 | What is the difference between Standard and Express workflows in Step Functions? AWS › AWS Step Functions | AWS | AWS Step Functions | Beginner |
| 28 | What is infrastructure as code (IaC), and how might a Node.js team use a tool like Terraform or the AWS CDK alongside their application code? Node.js › Cloud & DevOps | Node.js | Cloud & DevOps | Intermediate |
| 29 | How does DynamoDB Streams work and what is it commonly used for? AWS › Amazon DynamoDB | AWS | Amazon DynamoDB | Intermediate |
| 30 | How do EventBridge rules and targets work together to trigger actions? AWS › Amazon EventBridge | AWS | Amazon EventBridge | Intermediate |
| 31 | How can EventBridge be used to schedule recurring tasks, and how does this compare to using cron directly? AWS › Amazon EventBridge | AWS | Amazon EventBridge | Intermediate |
| 32 | How do consumer applications read and process data from a Kinesis Data Stream? AWS › Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | AWS | Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | Intermediate |
| 33 | 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 |
| 34 | How does SNS support mobile push notifications to applications on iOS and Android devices? AWS › Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) | AWS | Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) | Intermediate |
| 35 | What is visibility timeout in SQS, and why is it important for reliable message processing? AWS › Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | AWS | Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | Intermediate |
| 36 | How does long polling in SQS improve efficiency compared to short polling? AWS › Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | AWS | Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) | Intermediate |
| 37 | What is Amazon Lex and how does it enable building conversational chatbots? AWS › AWS AI Services (Rekognition, Polly, Lex & Comprehend) | AWS | AWS AI Services (Rekognition, Polly, Lex & Comprehend) | Intermediate |
| 38 | How can these AI services, such as Rekognition and Comprehend, be combined into a single automated workflow? AWS › AWS AI Services (Rekognition, Polly, Lex & Comprehend) | AWS | AWS AI Services (Rekognition, Polly, Lex & Comprehend) | Intermediate |
| 39 | What are AWS SDKs, and how do they differ from using the CLI for programmatic access to AWS services? AWS › AWS CLI & SDKs | AWS | AWS CLI & SDKs | Intermediate |
| 40 | How do CodeDeploy lifecycle hooks defined in an appspec file control the deployment process? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Intermediate |
| 41 | How does automatic secret rotation work in Secrets Manager, and why is it an important security practice? AWS › AWS Secrets Manager & Parameter Store | AWS | AWS Secrets Manager & Parameter Store | Intermediate |
| 42 | How do applications retrieve secrets at runtime, and what caching strategies help reduce the cost and latency of frequent secret retrieval? AWS › AWS Secrets Manager & Parameter Store | AWS | AWS Secrets Manager & Parameter Store | Intermediate |
| 43 | How does the Amazon States Language define the structure and logic of a Step Functions state machine? AWS › AWS Step Functions | AWS | AWS Step Functions | Intermediate |
| 44 | How does Step Functions handle error handling and automatic retries for failed steps within a workflow? AWS › AWS Step Functions | AWS | AWS Step Functions | Intermediate |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | How does CloudWatch Logs Insights let you query and analyze log data to troubleshoot application issues? AWS › Monitoring (CloudWatch) | AWS | Monitoring (CloudWatch) | Intermediate |
| 47 | What are CloudWatch custom metrics, and how do they let you monitor application specific data beyond what AWS provides by default? AWS › Monitoring (CloudWatch) | AWS | Monitoring (CloudWatch) | Intermediate |
| 48 | What is the difference between deploying a Node.js application to a Platform-as-a-Service (like Heroku or Render) versus a self-managed container orchestrator (like Kubernetes)? Node.js › Docker & Deployment | Node.js | Docker & Deployment | Advanced |
| 49 | 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 |
| 50 | How can Step Functions be used to orchestrate long running human approval workflows using the callback pattern with task tokens? AWS › AWS Step Functions | AWS | AWS Step Functions | Advanced |
| 51 | How can custom resources in CloudFormation extend its capabilities to manage resources or perform actions that are not natively supported by AWS resource types? AWS › IaC (CloudFormation) | AWS | IaC (CloudFormation) | Advanced |
| 52 | How can automated tag based resource lifecycle management, such as automatically stopping or terminating resources based on their tags, help control costs and reduce operational overhead? AWS › Tagging Strategies & Resource Management | AWS | Tagging Strategies & Resource Management | Advanced |
| 53 | How can an organization use the Well-Architected Framework's specialized lenses to evaluate workloads against industry specific or technology specific best practices beyond the general six pillars? AWS › Well-Architected Framework | AWS | Well-Architected Framework | Advanced |