Real questions from top companies
Explain how you would configure an S3 bucket policy to allow access only from a specific EC2 instance
Explain job bookmarking in AWS Glue. How does it help in incremental data processing?
Explain linked services and how they are created.
Explain steps to optimize data read performance from cloud storage (S3 or Azure Blob).
Explain the Terraform lifecycle for deploying a new cluster on AWS
Explain the components of ADF: Pipelines, Activities, Linked Services, Datasets, Triggers, and Integration Runtimes
Explain the difference between Azure Event Hub and Azure Service Bus.
Explain the difference between S3 One Zone-IA and S3 Standard-IA.
Explain the difference between Service Principal and Managed Identity in Azure.
Explain the differences between Azure IR, Self-hosted IR, and Azure-SSIS IR
Explain the differences between Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Synapse.
Explain the key components of Apache Beam in the context of Google Dataflow.
Explain the process of setting up an ETL pipeline using AWS services.
Explain the purpose and architecture of Azure Synapse Analytics.
Explain the role of Airflow DAGs in Cloud Composer.
Explain the role of Glue Catalog in Athena.
Explain the use of Web Activity in ADF.
Explain using AWS Glue for ETL. What challenges might you face with large datasets?
Explain using IAM roles for secure cross-account access to an S3 bucket.
Explain when you would use Glue instead of Lambda for a data ingestion use case.
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