hello there it's Richard McMunn here
from the interview training company past
my interview calm and in this tutorial I
will teach you how to parse an Amazon
AWS interview so regardless of the AWS
role you are being interviewed for
please make sure you stay tuned watch
this fully from beginning to end because
I promise to help you prepare fully for
your job interview and be the standout
candidate now to achieve that goal this
is what I will cover I will give you a
list of Amazon AWS interview questions
that I recommend you prepare for I will
also give you example answers to help
you succeed at your AWS interview I will
also tell you the qualities that you
have to demonstrate throughout your
Amazon AWS interview and then I will
also let you know about further
resources that you can get access to to
help you be the standout candidate so
these four great reasons why you should
stay tuned now before I get into the
training a quick warm welcome to this
Amazon AWS interview training tutorial
my name is Richard McMunn that is me
there in the center of the screen I have
been successfully helping people for
twenty years now to pass their
interviews and I always do that by
giving you top-scoring answers you can't
find anywhere else please make sure you
subscribe by clicking the red button
below the video and then you won't miss
out on any of the training videos I
upload you can also connect with me on
LinkedIn if you want to I have put my
LinkedIn link in the description below
the video and it's always great to
connect with like-minded professionals
such as yourself please also give the
video a like because that tells me you
enjoy the content and I will therefore
spend my time creating it for you ok
let's get into those AWS interview
questions and answers here we go
question number one tell me about
yourself and why you want to work in
this Amazon AWS role now this is your
opportunity to showcase the skills the
qualities and the experience you have
that will enable you to excel within
this Amazon AWS job position so here's
my suggestion aren't
I have always been someone who is
technically minded and over the years
I've built up a wide array of skills
qualities and experience that will
enable me to excel within this Amazon
AWS position now just some of the skills
and qualities I possess include an
understanding of AWS its uses best
practices and procedures proficiency in
cloud-based applications using AWS an
understanding of Amazon s3 ami VPC and
instances but also how all of these
integrate with AWS I also have
comprehensive knowledge of operating
systems and networking and I'm able to
work well both on my own and as part of
a team and I can be relied upon to work
quickly to a high standard and also
within strict timescales now if you hire
me within this Amazon AWS position I
will always work hard to help you
achieve your commercial objectives and I
will follow the Amazon leadership
principles in everything I do
so that's a brilliant answer I like it
because it's in-depth it shows your
intent with regards to what you are
going to do when you join Amazon within
this AWS position and you are also at
the end talking about the leadership
principles now I'm going to come on to
those in a little bit more detail later
on during the presentation but if you
have an AWS interview coming up with
Amazon my advice is to study those
because they are the foundation of
Amazon's success and I believe it's
important that you learn about them so
the next question for you is probably a
basic one but we need to make sure we
cover the basics what is AWS now this is
a relatively simple AWS interview
question however most people go into
their Amazon interview having only
researched the technical AWS interview
questions that they feel will come up
and as a result they can enough fail in
the interview because they don't cover
the basics so here's my suggested answer
Amazon Web Services is a cloud services
platform and is a subsidiary of Amazon
AWS allows individuals and businesses
both large and small to scale through
compute power online storage and content
delivery on a pay-as-you-go basis now
AWS provides services for online storage
and delivers dynamic and static content
globally using CDN which is content
delivery network now with AWS you can
create any online application you
require AWS is a leader amongst cloud
providers allowing its users to become
more agile so that's the concise and
relatively short answer an overview of
AWS and it shows that you understand
what it is and more importantly its
purpose the next question which is
pretty much guaranteed to come up why do
you want to work for Amazon now this is
a common question during Amazon AWS
interviews now the hiring manager has
heard a thousand and one responses to
this interview question so we need to
make sure that you give them an answer
that is genuine and unique and here it
is I would like to work for Amazon
because not only are you one of the
greatest companies in the world but your
desire to continually innovate create
and design groundbreaking products and
services is very appealing I'm the type
of person who doesn't want to sit still
in my job and just do the bare minimum
I want to constantly evolve improve
learn from others and also use the
skills and experience I have gained to
good use now Amazon will continue to
thrive because it puts the customer at
the front of everything it does and for
those reasons I would feel immensely
proud to work for Amazon in this AWS
position what I like about that answer
it is unique but you are also mentioning
at the end there that Amazon will
continue to thrive because it is
obsessed with the customer and customer
obsession is one of the leadership
principles that you need to adhere to
within any Amazon role and again we will
talk about that in a second next
question what are the main components or
services over Amazon AWS so to work in
any Amazon AWS role we need to have an
understanding of the different
components and services that are a part
of it so here's a comprehensive answer
an in-depth one
that you can use at your interview here
we go there are many components or
services that AWS offers and the core
ones can be broken down into storage
management security databases mobile
services application services networks
and analytical services now some of the
standout components and services are
Amazon Elastic Compute cloud also known
as Amazon ec2 which provides scalable
computer capacity in the cloud another
key component is Amazon's V PC the
virtual private cloud now this allows
for users to create private virtual
networks where they have complete
control to launch any AWS services in
there are many services in storage that
AWS offers such as s3 and elastic block
storage databases are also a key
component of AWS with services such as
Amazon RDS which enables the quick setup
and the use of rational databases via
the cloud and Amazon DynamoDB allows for
lightning quick deployment of rational
databases that utilize SSD drives to
store any amount of data and handle all
levels of traffic AWS also provides
fantastic application services with SWS
simple workflow service the task
management and also Amazon sqs simple
queue service for the automation finally
there is an array of management services
such as cloud watch and cloud trail so
that's a comprehensive answer it shows
that you understand the different
components and services obviously
there's a lot more to AWS and that but
that will give you a great grounding to
provide a solid answer to that interview
question now the next one is a really
tough one tell me a time when you
demonstrated one of Amazon's leadership
principles think for a second you go
along to the Amazon interview and they
throw this question at you well of
course you need to know what the
leadership principles are to be able to
provide an answer to it so Amazon has 14
very important leadership principles now
when answering this AWS interview
question think of a specific situation
when you were
why'd one of them during a work-related
project or task now before I come on to
a sample answer let me quickly show you
the Amazon leadership principles and
then you can choose one and decide which
one you want to use during your answer
now bias for action is one which is
basically getting things done another is
inventing things one of you created
things or you know found a simple
solution to a difficult problem having
backbone disagreeing and then committing
so think about a time when perhaps you
challenged a manager's decision
maybe they disagreed with you and you
then committed to their course of action
customer obsession now the number one
most important person in Amazon is
always the customer Amazon is brilliant
customer service and in my opinion it is
the main reason why they have been so
successful for so long earning Trust
which is about treating people with
respect
leaders in Amazon are right a lot of the
time so that's when you make really good
decisions they hire and develop the best
people they learn and be curious all of
the time frugality which is achieving
more with less so you look after you
know you look after the finances and
don't spend unnecessarily you will
always think big so you could give an
example of when you've done something at
work that was a huge ambition of yours
all the companies you take ownership of
situations you dive deep that's when you
look into projects and analyze the data
and information to make informed
decisions and then insisting on the
highest standards that would be a good
one to use or perhaps when you've
delivered results when things are really
difficult but you've done it to the
right standard and on time now the
example I'm going to give you is based
on customer obsession so here is the
question again tell me a time when you
demonstrate it one of Amazon's
leadership principles here's my
suggested answer that uses a star tech
making you'll notice but I structure the
answer with situation task action result
it's very effective I was working on an
important cloud-based project with a
group of five other people the client
had very strict timescales for
completion and although the team had not
worked with each other before we
we had to work hard to meet the
objectives and provide outstanding
service now because the project needed
total customer focus I suggested one of
the team members should be in constant
communication with the client remotely
to make sure every step of our work was
to the necessary specification everyone
agreed this was a good idea and so I
volunteered to be the main point of
contact now throughout the duration of
the project
I kept to the client updated on a daily
basis and I also asked them various
non-technical questions to drill down
deeply into their requirements now this
information was then relayed back to the
team and by maintaining constant
communication and by asking lots of
in-depth questions I was able to steer
the group throughout the project which
ultimately led to here being a massive
success for the client and they were
extremely pleased with the results
so you can see there by using situation
task action result the star technique
you are able to construct a very
in-depth and concise answer this shows
when you are able to demonstrate one of
the fourteen Amazon leadership
principles so the next thing for you to
do is please click that link in the top
right hand corner of the video it take
you through to my website pass my
interview comm and you can download my
full set of Amazon AWS interview
questions and answers that's useful for
all Amazon AWS job roles go through to
the page have a look at all of the
questions there's also some tips further
tips to help you pass your interview I
hope you've enjoyed that please don't
forget to subscribe connect with me on
LinkedIn and also give the video a like
as I mentioned at the start if I see you
like the video I will do more for you
I'll create more content I hope you've
enjoyed that I wish you all the best for
passing your Amazon AWS interview have a
brilliant day thank you