| 1 | What are AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, and how do they work together to form a CI/CD pipeline? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Beginner |
| 2 | How can you design a multi account CI/CD pipeline using CodePipeline that deploys the exact same build to separate development, staging, and production AWS accounts? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Advanced |
| 3 | What is a buildspec file in AWS CodeBuild, and what does it control? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Beginner |
| 4 | What deployment strategies does AWS CodeDeploy support, such as in place and blue green deployments? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Intermediate |
| 5 | How does CodePipeline support manual approval stages, and why are they useful in a CI/CD process? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Intermediate |
| 6 | What are the three Associate level AWS certifications, and how do they differ in focus? AWS › AWS Certification Paths & Career Roadmap | AWS | AWS Certification Paths & Career Roadmap | Beginner |
| 7 | What are the Professional level AWS certifications, and what additional depth do they require compared to Associate certifications? AWS › AWS Certification Paths & Career Roadmap | AWS | AWS Certification Paths & Career Roadmap | Intermediate |
| 8 | How does the sam build and sam deploy workflow package and deploy a serverless application to AWS? AWS › AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | AWS | AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | Intermediate |
| 9 | How can you use AWS CLI and SDK credential chains to securely manage access across local development, CI/CD pipelines, and production environments? AWS › AWS CLI & SDKs | AWS | AWS CLI & SDKs | Advanced |
| 10 | How can an organization design a consistent CI/CD and application deployment strategy that spans both standard AWS cloud regions and an on premises Outposts deployment? AWS › AWS Outposts & Hybrid Cloud | AWS | AWS Outposts & Hybrid Cloud | Advanced |
| 11 | How do CodeDeploy lifecycle hooks defined in an appspec file control the deployment process? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Intermediate |
| 12 | How can CodeDeploy support canary deployments, and how does this differ from a standard blue green deployment? AWS › AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | AWS | AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD) | Advanced |
| 13 | What is the difference between an Elastic Beanstalk application and an environment? AWS › AWS Elastic Beanstalk | AWS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Beginner |
| 14 | What is SageMaker Studio, and how does it improve the machine learning development experience? AWS › Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | AWS | Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | Intermediate |
| 15 | How does Elastic Beanstalk handle application updates and deployment policies such as rolling and immutable deployments? AWS › AWS Elastic Beanstalk | AWS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Intermediate |
| 16 | How does Elastic Beanstalk support blue green deployments using environment swapping? AWS › AWS Elastic Beanstalk | AWS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Intermediate |
| 17 | How does SAM support safe, gradual Lambda deployments using traffic shifting and automatic rollback? AWS › AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | AWS | AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | Intermediate |
| 18 | How does SageMaker support MLOps practices such as model monitoring and automated retraining pipelines? AWS › Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | AWS | Amazon SageMaker & Machine Learning on AWS | Advanced |
| 19 | How do you authenticate Docker to push and pull images from a private ECR repository? AWS › Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | AWS | Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | Beginner |
| 20 | How does ECR image scanning help identify security vulnerabilities within container images before they are deployed? AWS › Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | AWS | Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | Intermediate |
| 21 | How do ECR lifecycle policies help automatically manage and clean up old or unused container images to control storage costs? AWS › Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | AWS | Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | Intermediate |
| 22 | How does the Operational Excellence pillar of the Well-Architected Framework guide teams in improving their processes and procedures? AWS › Well-Architected Framework | AWS | Well-Architected Framework | Intermediate |
| 23 | How does API Gateway support versioning and staged deployments of an API? AWS › Amazon API Gateway | AWS | Amazon API Gateway | Advanced |
| 24 | What deployment strategies does ECS support for updating running services with minimal downtime? AWS › Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) | AWS | Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) | Advanced |
| 25 | What strategies are available for performing zero downtime upgrades of an EKS cluster's Kubernetes version? AWS › Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | AWS | Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) | Advanced |
| 26 | How can ECR pull through cache repositories simplify managing dependencies on public container registries while maintaining private, controlled access? AWS › Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | AWS | Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | Advanced |
| 27 | How do you design a load balancer architecture that supports zero downtime blue green or canary deployments for a production application? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Advanced |