| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | How does S3 Object Lock support compliance requirements for write once read many, or WORM, data storage? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Advanced |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | What is Amazon S3 and what makes it well suited for storing virtually unlimited amounts of data? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Beginner |
| 6 | How do S3 bucket policies and access control lists work together to control who can access objects stored in a bucket? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Intermediate |
| 7 | What is S3 versioning, and how does it help protect against accidental object deletion or overwrite? AWS › S3 & Storage | AWS | S3 & Storage | Intermediate |
| 8 | What is AWS Storage Gateway and how does it bridge on premises environments with AWS cloud storage? AWS › AWS Storage Gateway | AWS | AWS Storage Gateway | Beginner |
| 9 | What is a File Gateway, and how does it let on premises applications interact with S3 using standard file protocols? AWS › AWS Storage Gateway | AWS | AWS Storage Gateway | Beginner |
| 10 | How does local caching work within Storage Gateway to balance performance for frequently accessed data against the durability benefits of cloud storage? AWS › AWS Storage Gateway | AWS | AWS Storage Gateway | Intermediate |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | What is Amazon EFS and how is it different from Amazon S3 or EBS? AWS › Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | AWS | Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | Beginner |
| 13 | What are the different storage classes available in EFS? AWS › Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | AWS | Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | Beginner |
| 14 | What is columnar storage, and why does Redshift use it? AWS › Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | AWS | Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | Beginner |
| 15 | How does GuardDuty support monitoring for threats specific to Amazon S3, EKS, and RDS beyond general EC2 and account level threats? AWS › AWS Security Hub & GuardDuty | AWS | AWS Security Hub & GuardDuty | Intermediate |
| 16 | How does Redshift RA3 node architecture separate compute and storage, and why does this matter? AWS › Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | AWS | Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | Advanced |
| 17 | What is Amazon Athena and what problem does it solve? AWS › Amazon Athena | AWS | Amazon Athena | Beginner |
| 18 | How does Athena pricing work, and how can you reduce query costs? AWS › Amazon Athena | AWS | Amazon Athena | Beginner |
| 19 | What is Amazon CloudFront and how does it improve website performance? AWS › Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | AWS | Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | Beginner |
| 20 | What is the difference between Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, and Kinesis Data Analytics? AWS › Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | AWS | Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | Beginner |
| 21 | What is Amazon SageMaker and what stages of the machine learning workflow does it support? AWS › Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | AWS | Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | Beginner |
| 22 | What is Amazon Rekognition and what kinds of tasks can it perform on images and videos? AWS › AWS AI Services (Rekognition, Polly, Lex & Comprehend) | AWS | AWS AI Services (Rekognition, Polly, Lex & Comprehend) | Beginner |
| 23 | What is Amazon Polly and how does it convert text into natural sounding speech? AWS › AWS AI Services (Rekognition, Polly, Lex & Comprehend) | AWS | AWS AI Services (Rekognition, Polly, Lex & Comprehend) | Beginner |
| 24 | What is the difference between CloudTrail Event history and a CloudTrail trail? AWS › AWS CloudTrail & Auditing | AWS | AWS CloudTrail & Auditing | Beginner |
| 25 | How do AWS Config rules work to evaluate resource compliance? AWS › AWS Config | AWS | AWS Config | Beginner |
| 26 | What is a Glue crawler, and how does it automatically populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog? AWS › AWS Glue & ETL | AWS | AWS Glue & ETL | Beginner |
| 27 | What is AWS KMS and what role does it play in encrypting data across AWS services? AWS › AWS KMS & Data Encryption | AWS | AWS KMS & Data Encryption | Beginner |
| 28 | What is AWS Lambda and how does the serverless computing model differ from traditional server based applications? AWS › Lambda & Serverless | AWS | Lambda & Serverless | Beginner |
| 29 | What is the AWS Glue Data Catalog and how does it relate to Athena? AWS › Amazon Athena | AWS | Amazon Athena | Intermediate |
| 30 | How does caching work in CloudFront, and how do you control how long content stays cached? AWS › Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | AWS | Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | Intermediate |
| 31 | How do you secure content delivered through CloudFront so only authorized users can access it? AWS › Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | AWS | Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | Intermediate |
| 32 | How does EFS ensure data durability and availability? AWS › Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | AWS | Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) | Intermediate |
| 33 | How does EKS integrate with IAM for authentication and authorization within a Kubernetes cluster? AWS › Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | AWS | Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | Intermediate |
| 34 | What is Redshift Spectrum, and how does it let you query data outside your cluster? AWS › Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | AWS | Amazon Redshift & Data Warehousing | Intermediate |
| 35 | 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 |
| 36 | How can an organization consolidate CloudTrail logging across multiple AWS accounts using AWS Organizations? AWS › AWS CloudTrail & Auditing | AWS | AWS CloudTrail & Auditing | Intermediate |
| 37 | How can AWS Config automatically remediate non compliant resources once they are detected? AWS › AWS Config | AWS | AWS Config | Intermediate |
| 38 | How do Glue jobs use Apache Spark under the hood to perform large scale data transformations? AWS › AWS Glue & ETL | AWS | AWS Glue & ETL | Intermediate |
| 39 | How does envelope encryption work in KMS, and why is it used instead of encrypting large amounts of data directly with a KMS key? AWS › AWS KMS & Data Encryption | AWS | AWS KMS & Data Encryption | Intermediate |
| 40 | How does understanding the AWS shared responsibility model help clarify which security and operational tasks are AWS's responsibility versus the customer's responsibility? AWS › Core Services Overview | AWS | Core Services Overview | Intermediate |
| 41 | What is the difference between EBS backed and instance store backed EC2 instances in terms of data persistence? AWS › EC2 & Compute | AWS | EC2 & Compute | Intermediate |
| 42 | How do IAM policies use the combination of effect, action, resource, and condition elements to precisely define permissions? AWS › IAM | AWS | IAM | Intermediate |
| 43 | What are the performance considerations when running very large analytical queries in Athena? AWS › Amazon Athena | AWS | Amazon Athena | Advanced |
| 44 | How does data retention and replay work in Kinesis Data Streams? AWS › Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | AWS | Amazon Kinesis & Data Streaming | Advanced |
| 45 | What is the difference between CloudTrail management events and data events, and when should data events be enabled? AWS › AWS CloudTrail & Auditing | AWS | AWS CloudTrail & Auditing | Advanced |
| 46 | How does the Distributed Map state in Step Functions support processing extremely large datasets that would exceed the limits of a standard Map state? AWS › AWS Step Functions | AWS | AWS Step Functions | Advanced |
| 47 | How do VPC endpoints, including gateway and interface endpoints, allow private connectivity to AWS services without traversing the public internet? AWS › VPC & Networking | AWS | VPC & Networking | Advanced |