| 1 | What is Elastic Load Balancing and why is it important for building scalable, highly available applications? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Beginner |
| 2 | What is the difference between an Application Load Balancer, a Network Load Balancer, and a Classic Load Balancer? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Beginner |
| 3 | How does path based and host based routing on an Application Load Balancer support directing traffic to different backend services within a single load balancer? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Intermediate |
| 4 | How can Application Load Balancer support sticky sessions, and when is this feature actually necessary for an application? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Advanced |
| 5 | How do target groups and health checks work together within an Application Load Balancer to route traffic only to healthy instances? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Intermediate |
| 6 | How does a Network Load Balancer's preservation of the client's source IP address benefit certain applications compared to an Application Load Balancer? AWS › Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | AWS | Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB & CLB) | Intermediate |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk and how does it simplify deploying applications compared to manually configuring infrastructure? AWS › AWS Elastic Beanstalk | AWS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | Beginner |
| 9 | How does an ECS service maintain the desired number of running tasks? AWS › Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) | AWS | Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) | Intermediate |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | What types of origins can CloudFront distribute content from? AWS › Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | AWS | Amazon CloudFront & Content Delivery | Beginner |
| 12 | What is an Auto Scaling Group in AWS and what problem does it solve? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Beginner |
| 13 | What is AWS Certificate Manager and why is it important for securing web applications? AWS › AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) | AWS | AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) | Beginner |
| 14 | What is an Availability Zone, and why do AWS architectures commonly span multiple Availability Zones? AWS › AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, AZs & Edge Locations) | AWS | AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, AZs & Edge Locations) | Beginner |
| 15 | What is AWS Shield, and what is the difference between Shield Standard and Shield Advanced? AWS › AWS WAF & Shield | AWS | AWS WAF & Shield | Beginner |
| 16 | What is a Route 53 alias record, and how is it different from a standard CNAME record? AWS › Amazon Route 53 & DNS Management | AWS | Amazon Route 53 & DNS Management | Intermediate |
| 17 | How do Route 53 routing policies, such as weighted and latency based routing, affect how traffic is directed? AWS › Amazon Route 53 & DNS Management | AWS | Amazon Route 53 & DNS Management | Intermediate |
| 18 | How do health checks work within an Auto Scaling Group to maintain a healthy fleet of instances? AWS › Auto Scaling Groups | AWS | Auto Scaling Groups | Intermediate |
| 19 | Can ACM certificates be used with resources outside of AWS managed services, such as on an EC2 instance running your own web server? AWS › AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) | AWS | AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) | Intermediate |
| 20 | 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 |