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Amazon Solutions Architect Mock Interview

To help you prepare for a Solutions Architect interview at Amazon, here are 30 interview questions and answer examples.

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Question 1 of 30

Do you subscribe to the theory of 'Fail Early and Fail Forward?'

Fail early and fail forward refers to the philosophy of taking risks in a process before they have greater impacts and learning quickly from your failures so they can be corrected and avoided in the future. Some organizations like Amazon subscribe to this practice, especially entrepreneurial and innovative companies. More conservative companies avoid failure and take additional precautions when developing new processes, procedures, or applications. How you respond to this question will depend on the nature of the specific Amazon organization. Try to gauge the group's tolerance for risk and the consequences of failures before answering the Amazon interviewer's question.

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Amazon Solutions Architect Interview Questions & Answers

  • Behavioral

    1. Do you subscribe to the theory of 'Fail Early and Fail Forward?'

  • Communication

    2. How would you describe Amazon Web Services (AWS) to someone outside of Amazon's IT organization?

  • Creative Thinking

    3. Can you describe a creative solution to a challenging problem you developed in your role as a solutions architect?

  • Direct

    4. What is meant by the Single Responsibility Principle, and how do you use this in your work?

  • Direct

    5. Can you explain CAP Theorem?

  • Discovery

    6. Please talk about a time when you analyzed a difficult problem and came up with an innovative solution.

  • Discovery

    7. What do you believe your role is concerning supporting Amazon's functional analysts?

  • Leadership

    8. Can you describe a key project you recently led as a solutions architect?

  • Operational

    9. What is your strategy for securing the IT assets and intellectual property of an organization?

  • Solutions Architect

    10. How do you ensure that the software you develop will scale?

  • Technical

    11. How do you define high availability, and what are some steps you take to ensure this?

  • Technical

    12. When would you use a NoSQL database, and when would using a relational database be better?

  • Technical

    13. What are monolithic, SOA and microservices architectures, and how do they differ from one another?

  • Technical

    14. Can you describe some of the differences between concurrency and parallelism?

  • Technical

    15. Please discuss the concept of elasticity as used in your role as a solutions architect and how it contrasts with scalability.

  • Technical

    16. Do you prefer to create programs aligned with interfaces or implementations, and why?

  • Technical

    17. What does system resiliency refer to, and how would you achieve this here at Amazon?

  • Technical

    18. Can you define the acronym SOLID and discuss its key principles?

  • Technical

    19. How are DRY and DIE principles used in software engineering?

  • Technical

    20. Are there any issues with employing sticky sessions in your systems architecture?

  • Technical

    21. What is meant by "Session Affinity," and how does this relate to the concept of sticky session load balancing?

  • Technical

    22. What are the differences between a binary and mutex semaphore?

  • Technical

    23. What are some of the steps you recommend to protect Amazon from a 'DOS' attack?

  • Technical

    24. How is the term deadlock used in your role as a solutions architect?

  • Technical

    25. What does the acronym ACID stand for?

  • Technical

    26. What are the benefits of clustering?

  • Technical

    27. Please explain domain-driven design.

  • Technical

    28. What is a lower latency interaction, and why is it desirable in an application?

  • Technical

    29. What are the advantages of using a NoSQL database instead of an RDBMS?

  • Technical

    30. Please discuss some of the differences between asynchronous and parallel programming?