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Cloud Architect interview questions

13 questions cloud architects get asked, grouped by type. Under each one are the skills it is really testing, so you can pick a story from your own work that shows them.

Technical

  1. How do you structure accounts or subscriptions for a company moving multiple teams into the cloud?
    Tests: cloud design, governance
  2. Describe how you design a cloud environment so costs stay visible and controlled as usage grows.
    Tests: cost awareness, cloud design
  3. How do you design a cloud workload to survive the failure of a single region or availability zone?
    Tests: reliability, cloud design
  4. What does a secure baseline configuration look like for a new cloud environment you're setting up?
    Tests: security, cloud design

Situational

  1. A company has dozens of applications to move to the cloud and limited time. How do you decide what moves first?
    Tests: migration planning, judgment
  2. A cloud provider has a partial outage affecting one of your production workloads. What do you do?
    Tests: incident response, reliability
  3. A development team resists a cloud architecture standard because it slows their delivery. How do you handle it?
    Tests: stakeholder management, governance
  4. How do you connect an on-premises system that can't move to the cloud with workloads that already have?
    Tests: cloud design, integration

Behavioral

  1. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker and how you handled it.
    Tests: conflict resolution, communication
  2. Describe a project or task that did not go well and what you did about it.
    Tests: ownership, reflection
  3. Give an example of persuading someone to adopt an idea they initially resisted.
    Tests: influence, communication
  4. Walk me through how you decided what to work on when you had more requests than time.
    Tests: prioritisation, judgment
  5. Tell me about a time you had to learn something new quickly to get a job done.
    Tests: learning agility, ownership
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Cloud Architect interview questions — Gurus Consulting