Scenario Interview Questions — All Categories
92 questions across 28 categories
Open-ended, realistic situations that combine multiple technologies and force genuine engineering judgment.
How would you make the case for the cost of a separate AWS account, if leadership pushes back on the added complexity?
IntermediateAWS6 min
You inherit an EC2 workload that authenticates to AWS using an IAM user with AdministratorAccess. How would you migrate it to least-privilege access without causing an outage?
AdvancedAWSIAMEC212 min
How would you prevent a new workload from ever being built directly on a static IAM user again, at an organizational level rather than case by case?
AdvancedAWS8 min
A detective scan finds dozens of pre-existing IAM users with active keys across many accounts. How would you prioritize remediation?
AdvancedAWS7 min
A third-party application only supports static AWS access keys and can't use an instance profile or role. How do you handle this without abandoning least privilege entirely?
AdvancedAWS8 min
Even after mitigating cold starts, a small amount of irreducible tail latency remains. How would you design the caller's retry behavior to handle that remaining tail?
AdvancedAWSLambda8 min
How would you decide whether an S3 public-write exposure is a supply-chain security incident requiring broader notification, versus a contained issue?
AdvancedAWSS37 min
How would your incident response differ if an exposed S3 bucket allowed public write access, not just public read?
AdvancedAWSS38 min