Interview Questions Flashcards
What is AWS?
Amazon Web Services is a cloud services platform and is a subsidiary of Amazon.
AWS allows individuals and businesses — both large and small — to scale through compute power, online storage, and content delivery on a pay-as-you-go basis.
With AWS you can create any online application you require. AWS is a leader amongst cloud providers, allowing its users to become more agile.
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Explain to a CFO why he should migrate to the cloud.
- Reduced capital expenditure: less hardware is required as you have the ability to provision multiple VMs on one host
- Reduced operating costs: there is less hardware, less space (smaller footprint), power, and cooling required within your Datacenter.
- Optimization of resources: in a cloud environment, even one can benefit from virtualization, from the cloud vendor to the consumer.
Tell me about yourself and why you want to work in this Amazon AWS role?
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Why do you want to work for AWS?
The way I view it, to work at AWS is to bet on human innovation. In the 21st century, there are so many brilliant people building incredible products and services to move humanity forward. And so much of that human progress is being built on AWS.
I can say this with confidence because during my three years at Tableau, I’d speak with some of the most important companies about their current cloud solution; 80% of my customers used AWS. Expedia, as an example, was a customer of mine who’s proven how the Enterprise can make a thoughtful, seamless transition to AWS. Even the product I was selling was
I want to work at AWS because of its desire to continually innovate, create and design ground-breaking products and services.
What are the main components/services of AWS?
There are many components, or services that AWS offers. The core ones can be broken down into Compute, Storage, Databases, and Networking.
Some of the standout components and services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2, which provides scalable compute capacity in the cloud.
What is Amazon EC2?
Amazon EC2 is a web-service which aims to make life easier for developers by Levi don’t secure and resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
What is an AMI
AMI stands for Amazon Machine Image. It’s essentially a template of pre-configured EC2 instances which allow you to quickly launch a new EC2 instance based on the configuration of the AMI
Tell me about a previous customer of your who could leverage AWS
Expedia story
Tell me about a time you Earned Trust with a customer.
Seagate
A value of ours is customer obsession. Tell me about a time you went above and beyond for a customer.
Nikki at Atmos Energy
What is Amazon S3
Simple Storage Service. * Object-based storage system
* Files + metadata * No folders, hierarchy, file systems, or databases * Great for media files * Great for reading files, not for writing/editing files
What is something unique you could bring to the team?
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Tell me about a time you made a mistake.
Answer w/ John
What is a three-tier architecture?
Three-tier architecture is a client-server software architecture pattern in which the user interface (presentation), functional process logic (“business rules”), computer data storage and data access are developed and maintained as independent modules, most often on separate platforms.
