25 Cloud Architect Interview Questions
Assess architecture judgement, security and governance in the cloud, and the ability to turn business constraints into a reliable, affordable design for cloud architect candidates.
Cloud Architect Interview Questions
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How would you structure accounts, subscriptions or projects for a company with several teams and environments?
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What does a well-designed landing zone contain, and what do teams usually forget?
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How do you choose between virtual machines, containers and serverless for a new workload?
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Describe how you would design identity and access for a cloud environment used by employees, contractors and applications.
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How do you avoid being locked in to one cloud provider, and when is lock-in an acceptable choice?
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How do you translate a business statement such as “this system can never be down” into concrete architecture requirements?
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Walk me through the design of a multi-region application. What makes it hard in practice?
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How do you design the network between on-premises systems and the cloud, and what can go wrong with it?
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What are the data residency and sovereignty questions you ask before placing data in a region?
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How do you review an architecture proposed by another team? What do you look for first?
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Describe an architecture decision you made that turned out to be wrong. How did you discover it and what did you do?
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How do you design for failure of a managed service that your system depends on?
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How do you decide how much to build with managed services versus running your own?
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How do you document architecture so that it stays useful after the first month?
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How would you design a secure environment for a workload that processes personal data?
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What guardrails would you put in place so that teams can move fast without creating security or cost problems?
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How do you approach the choice of a database service for a workload with unpredictable traffic?
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Describe how you would explain a trade-off between cost and resilience to a finance director.
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How do you plan the capacity and limits of cloud services before a large launch?
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Tell me about a time you had to say no to a team's preferred technology. How did you handle it?
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How do you design event-driven architectures, and where do they cause more problems than they solve?
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What is your approach to tagging, ownership and accountability of cloud resources?
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How would you design an environment so that an audit of access and changes is straightforward?
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How do you keep an architecture current as cloud services and team needs change?
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How do you grow the cloud skills of the engineers around you while remaining accountable for the overall design?
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