Recent Amazon Solutions Architect Interview Questions

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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "Pizza Ordering System orderdetail - orderdetailid (PK), orderid (FK), itemid (FK), itemqty, itemized_price order - orderid (PK), customerid (FK), orderdate, locationid (FK), ordertype (DINEIN, PICKUP, DELIVERY), refid (dineinid, pickupid, deliveryid), subtotal, tax, tip, totalamount, payment_method (CASH, CARD) location - locationid (PK), locationdesc, city, state, startdate, enddate customer - customer_id (PK), name, address (nullable), phone (nullable), dob (d"

    Rishabh L. - "Pizza Ordering System orderdetail - orderdetailid (PK), orderid (FK), itemid (FK), itemqty, itemized_price order - orderid (PK), customerid (FK), orderdate, locationid (FK), ordertype (DINEIN, PICKUP, DELIVERY), refid (dineinid, pickupid, deliveryid), subtotal, tax, tip, totalamount, payment_method (CASH, CARD) location - locationid (PK), locationdesc, city, state, startdate, enddate customer - customer_id (PK), name, address (nullable), phone (nullable), dob (d"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Technical
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    "My parents because they take really good care of me whenever I feel sick"

    Amparo L. - "My parents because they take really good care of me whenever I feel sick"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
  • "I was in my early days of leadership and strategy. In Marriott when a decision was made by C suite to buy products as wrapper over cloud providers I was surprised and based on my limited information and knowledge posted a question to Chief technology officer as why it won't be a good strategy to directly use Native offering from AWS. The reason enlightened me and gave new a new thought process that being such a large enterprise that has presence in 200+ countries across globe we may have challen"

    Parag L. - "I was in my early days of leadership and strategy. In Marriott when a decision was made by C suite to buy products as wrapper over cloud providers I was surprised and based on my limited information and knowledge posted a question to Chief technology officer as why it won't be a good strategy to directly use Native offering from AWS. The reason enlightened me and gave new a new thought process that being such a large enterprise that has presence in 200+ countries across globe we may have challen"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
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    "I think rapport with the team is key to deciding what one of these members can do that would bring more development capability to him, the team and the project. Analyzing the skill and attitude of my team members in advance and putting them in the role where they are strongest and happiest has been an important factor in my success stories. Taking care to identify a potential leader in the team will make it evolve faster as well. So this is how I make decisions when forming a squad for a spec"

    Sueudo G. - "I think rapport with the team is key to deciding what one of these members can do that would bring more development capability to him, the team and the project. Analyzing the skill and attitude of my team members in advance and putting them in the role where they are strongest and happiest has been an important factor in my success stories. Taking care to identify a potential leader in the team will make it evolve faster as well. So this is how I make decisions when forming a squad for a spec"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
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    "I have this approach of: 30% seniors, to help the semi senior to grow. 30% to 35% semi seniors, to help the jr to grow. 37% to 40% jr or software engineers. With this approach and can foster a culture of grow but also be prepared to rotation of the team. And if you have to add more people, the onboarding is more simple."

    Cristian A. - "I have this approach of: 30% seniors, to help the semi senior to grow. 30% to 35% semi seniors, to help the jr to grow. 37% to 40% jr or software engineers. With this approach and can foster a culture of grow but also be prepared to rotation of the team. And if you have to add more people, the onboarding is more simple."See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "Achieving your metric of success (Daily Active Users, Engagement etc.) Improving user sentiment in their experience of using the product Attention given to accessibility, visual design and content hierarchy The product design aligns with goals and branding of company Product clearly communicates value to our users and helps them achieve their goals"

    Ben G. - "Achieving your metric of success (Daily Active Users, Engagement etc.) Improving user sentiment in their experience of using the product Attention given to accessibility, visual design and content hierarchy The product design aligns with goals and branding of company Product clearly communicates value to our users and helps them achieve their goals"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
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    Behavioral
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    Solutions Architect
    Technical
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    "CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) -- also known as supernetting -- is a method of assigning Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that improves the efficiency of address distribution and replaces the previous system based on Class A, Class B and Class C networks."

    Ali H. - "CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) -- also known as supernetting -- is a method of assigning Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that improves the efficiency of address distribution and replaces the previous system based on Class A, Class B and Class C networks."See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Technical
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "Ability for system to keep in service without much degradation in SLA or adding significant latency."

    Anonymous Narwhal - "Ability for system to keep in service without much degradation in SLA or adding significant latency."See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Technical
  • "Use sticky sessions in loadbalancer to save the user sessions. In case of DB, use Redis cache to maintain user sessions"

    Madhini G. - "Use sticky sessions in loadbalancer to save the user sessions. In case of DB, use Redis cache to maintain user sessions"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Technical
  • "This is due to sticky sessions. The load balancer is not correctly configured with sticky session option. It is likely the servers were storing session data on the server themselves (in-memory), and thus when user makes a request, the load balancer routes this to a different server than the one they started with, that second server may not recognise the user's session. This could prompt the user to log in again. One way to resolve this, is to use a centralised session storage, something like"

    T I. - "This is due to sticky sessions. The load balancer is not correctly configured with sticky session option. It is likely the servers were storing session data on the server themselves (in-memory), and thus when user makes a request, the load balancer routes this to a different server than the one they started with, that second server may not recognise the user's session. This could prompt the user to log in again. One way to resolve this, is to use a centralised session storage, something like"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Technical
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    Solutions Architect
    Technical
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "N/A. I never had the same experience."

    Onesimo F. - "N/A. I never had the same experience."See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
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    Solutions Architect
    System Design
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    "DNS is a service for resolving hostname and provide fully qualified domain name of the host."

    Tej prakash V. - "DNS is a service for resolving hostname and provide fully qualified domain name of the host."See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Technical
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    "Caching is a strategy to have the frequently accessed data in the memory to reduce the latency. whenever a client request the data from server, it is first accessed into cache and if not available then it is getting fetched from the storage and stored into cache. As cache is having limited memory, so amount of data can be stored in cache is less. Data will be flushed out from cache based on a criteria which is termed as caching strategy. There could be different mechanisms under which a data can"

    Archna M. - "Caching is a strategy to have the frequently accessed data in the memory to reduce the latency. whenever a client request the data from server, it is first accessed into cache and if not available then it is getting fetched from the storage and stored into cache. As cache is having limited memory, so amount of data can be stored in cache is less. Data will be flushed out from cache based on a criteria which is termed as caching strategy. There could be different mechanisms under which a data can"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Technical
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