Technical Solutions Architect Interview Questions

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Q: What is the difference between a scripted and compiled language? pros and cons of each? Q: What is a federated identity? Q: How would you go about migrating a mainframe to the cloud? Q: What is IDS and IPS? Q: How does a domain name get resolved? Q: Examples of DevOps tools you have used? Q: Tell me about something you recently built for fun (tech or non-tech)? Q: Describe the overall cloud migration process. Q: What happens in the MRA? Q: What happens in the MRP? Q: What is T-shirt sizing? Q: What are the 7 Rs? Explain each… Q: What migration tools do you use? Q: What is a cloud migration factory? Q: What is a target landing zone? Q: What is MAP? Q: How long does a migration take? Q: What kind of incentives can a client expect from AWS? Q: What are some of the optimization levers during the build and run phase?
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Senior Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Nov 20, 2020

Q: What is the difference between a scripted and compiled language? pros and cons of each? Q: What is a federated identity? Q: How would you go about migrating a mainframe to the cloud? Q: What is IDS and IPS? Q: How does a domain name get resolved? Q: Examples of DevOps tools you have used? Q: Tell me about something you recently built for fun (tech or non-tech)? Q: Describe the overall cloud migration process. Q: What happens in the MRA? Q: What happens in the MRP? Q: What is T-shirt sizing? Q: What are the 7 Rs? Explain each… Q: What migration tools do you use? Q: What is a cloud migration factory? Q: What is a target landing zone? Q: What is MAP? Q: How long does a migration take? Q: What kind of incentives can a client expect from AWS? Q: What are some of the optimization levers during the build and run phase?

What is the difference between noSQL and SQL? Describe a three tiered application. What is encryption? Describe the different sorting algorithms and their implementations. What is the difference between R and Python and when would you use each?
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Solutions Architect Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jan 12, 2021

What is the difference between noSQL and SQL? Describe a three tiered application. What is encryption? Describe the different sorting algorithms and their implementations. What is the difference between R and Python and when would you use each?

You need to know pretty strong networking. It's not really specific questions like what is a CDN, it's explain your thought process in talking to a CTO who is having challenges with this and that. You need to understand how to upscale and monitor networks. The second part will be question around the core values. You need to answer in STAR.
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Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Mar 5, 2021

You need to know pretty strong networking. It's not really specific questions like what is a CDN, it's explain your thought process in talking to a CTO who is having challenges with this and that. You need to understand how to upscale and monitor networks. The second part will be question around the core values. You need to answer in STAR.

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