Cognizant
American multinational information technology services and consulting company.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
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Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
A Cognizant enterprise client wants to migrate their on-premise monolithic application to AWS. Walk me through your migration strategy.
#Cloud Migration
#AWS
#Enterprise Architecture
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a highly available and fault-tolerant 3-tier web architecture on Azure.
#Azure
#High Availability
#System Design
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a serverless architecture for an image processing application that creates thumbnails whenever a user uploads a photo.
#Serverless
#AWS
#Event-Driven
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you design a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy with an RPO of 15 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour for a critical database?
#Disaster Recovery
#RPO/RTO
#Databases
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