Interview preparation
AWS interview questions for Data Engineers
Every question starts with a direct answer you could say out loud, then explains why, when and what goes wrong. Tick questions off as you practise.
All AWS questions
| # | Question | Difficulty | Type | Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How would you design the S3 layout and partitioning for a data lake? | Medium | architecture, scenario |
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Concept review
- LessonIntermediateAmazon Athena: Serverless SQL on S3
- LessonIntermediateAWS Data Services Landscape: Networking, Databases, Messaging, CDC and Cost
- LessonBeginnerAWS for Data Engineers: The AWS Data Stack and How the Services Fit Together
- LessonIntermediateMonitoring Data Pipelines on AWS: CloudWatch and EventBridge
- LessonAdvancedAmazon EMR: Spark Clusters, EMR on EKS and EMR Serverless
- LessonIntermediateAWS Glue: Data Catalog, Crawlers and Spark ETL Jobs
- LessonBeginnerAWS IAM for Data Engineers: Roles, Policies and Cross-Account Access
- LessonIntermediateAmazon Kinesis: Data Streams, Firehose and Stream Processing
- LessonAdvancedAWS Lake Formation: Data Lake Governance and Fine-Grained Access
- LessonIntermediateAWS Lambda for Data Pipelines
- LessonAdvancedModern AWS Data Services: Iceberg, Data Quality, Serverless and IaC
- LessonIntermediateAmazon Redshift for Data Engineers
- LessonBeginnerAmazon S3 for Data Engineers
- LessonIntermediateAWS Step Functions for Data Pipeline Orchestration