18 most-asked questions to prepare for your next DevOps interview

Preparing for your next DevOps job Interview?

Here are the 18 most commonly asked questions to ace your next DevOps Interview:

1. How do you design for failure?

2. How many 9s of availability do you think you can design for?

3. How do you monitor application uptime?

4. How do you build a self-healing architecture?

5. How would you design our architecture to handle a sudden jump in traffic?

6. How do you monitor and manage large-scale events?

7. How would you test our system’s ability to handle a large-scale event?

8. How would you “right-size” our system for normal and peak traffic situations?

9. How do you monitor system performance?

10. What are the most important metrics to monitor?

11. Tell me about a time your application performance was bounded by something like memory/compute/storage. How did you architect around that?

12. How have you utilized caching to improve performance?

13. What is the shortest amount of time you were able to prep a database for development?

14. When does it make sense to stop using a managed service and begin self-managing your own cluster?

15. Tell me about a time where you had many people working on the same code base at the same time. How did you do deployments in that environment?

16. Can you explain the difference between continuous integration and continuous deployment?

17. What kind of DevOps tools have you used in the past? Which ones do you prefer and why?

18. What are the several KPIs used to gauge DevOps success?

DevOps engineers are among the highly sought-after and well-paid engineers in today's cloud-native era.
I hope answering these questions will help you gain more expertise in the field of DevOps.

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