Architecture Interview Questions — All Categories
98 questions across 27 categories
Designing systems under real constraints: requirements, trade-offs, and the reasoning behind a specific design choice.
How would you decide between Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and GKE for a new workload, beyond just 'serverless is simpler'?
IntermediateGCPCloud FunctionsCloud Run7 min
How would you design least-privilege IAM for a Cloud Function that reads from Pub/Sub and writes to a specific Cloud Storage bucket?
IntermediateGCP6 min
How would you design a CI/CD pipeline's GCP authentication using service account impersonation instead of a downloaded key, and why is that safer?
AdvancedGCP7 min
How would you design a fast, event-driven alerting system to catch an accidentally-public Cloud Storage bucket within minutes, GCP-native?
ExpertGCPCloud Storage8 min
How would you design Cloud Storage lifecycle rules to automatically reduce cost as objects age, without risking premature deletion of data still in use?
IntermediateGCPCloud Storage7 min