IBM
Global technology and consulting firm with deep roots in enterprise IT and AI.
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Interview Question Bank
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a highly available microservices architecture on IBM Cloud. How do you handle load balancing, database replication, and failover?
#IBM Cloud
#High Availability
#Microservices
#Databases
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for a stateful application running on Kubernetes. How do you ensure RPO and RTO requirements are met?
#Disaster Recovery
#Kubernetes
#Storage
#Architecture
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a centralized logging architecture for a hybrid cloud environment (on-prem and IBM Cloud). What tools would you use and how would you handle log rotation and retention?
#Logging
#Hybrid Cloud
#Architecture
#ELK
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you design a deployment pipeline for edge computing devices (e.g., IBM Edge Application Manager) where network connectivity is intermittent?
#Edge Computing
#Architecture
#Resilience
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