AWS CSA Guide:

Two rounds for the recruitment:

1. Online Assessment

2. Interview

Online Assessment:

● Work Simulation Round

● Computer Networks MCQ

Virtual Interview:

1. OS Round
○ Operating System Fundamentals
○ Components of OS
○ Process scheduling and management, IPC
○ Memory management
○ Disk management
○ Boot process Windows or Linux
○ Linux/Windows commands and troubleshooting
○ Virtualization
2. CN Round
○ Basics of networking
○ Basic networking topology
○ Network Protocol Knowledge - Ethernet, ARP, TCP, IP, Ports,
DNS, SSL, HTTP, DHCP
○ Network Routing Knowledge - Private IPs and Public IPs, Types
of routing: Static, Dynamic (Distance Vector, Link state and Path
vector), BGP, OSPF
○ IP Addressing and Subnetting
 ○ Network layer firewalls, application layer firewalls
○ Commands - Traceroute, ping, telnet, TCP dump, curl, SSH.
3. HR + Managerial Round
○ Check whether you will be able to smoothly work with the team
and adapt to the organisational culture. Eg.-Tell me about your
weakness/strengths, Why should we hire you?
○ Check that you are capable of delivering on the role or not. They
will give you a situation and you will have to give a strategic
answer. Eg.-Tell me about a project that makes you proud, If your
team resists your idea, what will you do?
○ Learn STAR Method - Situational, Task, Action, Result.

Operating System Questions:

1. What to do if the laptop is hanging a lot?

2. How to fix a slow computer?

3. What is RAM? What is a thread? What is a P-thread?

4. Can the CPU go beyond 100%?

5. How to install and use software which needs more space than the
available space in your system?

7. Virtual Memory - how I'm able to run a 7GB game with my 4 GB RAM?
Why the game gets slow in such cases?

8. Which OS do I primarily work on and why?

9. Memory pages; Buffer and Caches. Difference between buffer and

cache.
 10. Explain deadlock? How can we prevent it? Explain semaphores in
layman's language?

12. CPU Scheduling Algorithms and questions based on them.

13. Explain different page replacement algorithms, and which is the most
efficient?

14. Can round-robin be pre-emptive?

15. What is an Active directory?

16. Explain the Boot process (either windows/Linux)

17. What is Bash? How would you explain Bash/PowerShell to a non-

technical person?

19. How do you access root?

20. Commands to check memory and disk space in OS either Linux or

Windows?

21. What command checks for running processes?

22. where are the USB drivers installed in Linux

23. System date/time management, network time protocol

24. Managing Users and groups - explain chmod command.

25. File permissions

26. Managing software - installation, uninstallation, upgrade etc.

27. Managing system services and background processes

28. How to view logs in windows?

29. Which directory are log files stored in?

 30. A user says that whenever they try to use the system, it keeps
rebooting, what could be the cause of this? How would you go about
trying to find out what's causing the issue?

33. A client's system/server is having bad performance, what could

potentially be causing this? How would you go about trying to find out
the cause of this problem?

36. If I have to run a management script in my system at a particular time

each day, how will I proceed?

37. What exactly goes inside cron jobs scripts - Difference between
processes and threads, pages and fragments

39. BSOD

Computer Networking Questions:

1. OSI model with complete details and protocols on each layer.

2. Transmission of messages between layers

3. Difference between router, and switch.

4. How are a hub, a router, and a switch different from each other? Explain
in terms of the broadcast domain.

5. What is a Broadcast Domain?

6. What is the difference between Bandwidth, Delay and Latency?

7. Flow/error control.

8. TCP/IP, BGP.

9. What is BGP and describe the states - Idle, Connect, Active, Opensent,
Openconfirm, Established.
10. Why is the TCP/IP model used over the OSI model?

11. TCP and SSL handshake. How TCP/ IP connection is established (via
3-way handshake) and terminated?

12. What is SSL and how does it work? How do you protect a website?

13. Difference between TCP/UDP - with example.

14. DHCP and DORA process.

15. How DHCP server is uniquely identified by the client?

16. MSS/MTU Explain.

17. As MSS was explained in TCP 3-way handshake, explain what is MTU
and compare and contrast MSS and MTU together.

18. Why would you choose HTTPS over HTTP? From a technical
perspective, what is HTTPS?

20. Port number of HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DHCP?

21. What is FTP? what kind of application is it used for?

22. How would you secure a website?/How would you make a website
secure?

23. What happens when you type www.amazon.com?

24. How does a web page load, what happens in the background?

25. What is DNS? How does DNS work?

26. DNS resolving ( how to resolve the name to IP or what happens when
you visit amazon.com)

28. Describe the DNS lookup process for Domain name resolution.
29. What is the difference between "Connection Refused" and "Connection
Timed Out"? What causes these two things to happen?

31. Is 1.1.1.1 routable?

32. What is a firewall, why do you need it?

33. Concept of Proxy and firewall? Stateless and stateful firewalls?

34. What is the difference between example.com and example.org?

35. Troubleshoot slow website.

36. How to view network stats?

37. What does NetStat do? Which Linux command finds routing tables?

38. Command to track and print the path traversed between different
routers.

39. What command checks for open ports?

40. What command checks the routing table in Linux?

41. How to setup remote desktop connection using the command line in
windows

42. A scenario question about packet flow in NAT

43. How do you find out what your IP Address is?

44. What protocol is used and how it is used to gate out from a private
network. (ARP)?

45. Given the following information: 10.0.0.0/8 100,000 hosts on the

network There is a host with an IP of 10.0.0.1 who cannot connect,
why is this? Also, a lot of hosts on the network are reporting that they
cannot connect, why is this?
 46. Suppose I have a brand new laptop and I wish to connect it to the
internet. What should I do, and what shall happen in the background
before the laptop is connected to the internet? (Ans. Manually
assigning IP address or DHCP and DORA procedure. They expect you
to explain in depth about DHCP and DORA)

47. What exactly are the requirements to make two computers

communicate (they are close to each other, connected to the same
network) (here, also highlight the fact that how one computer will
uniquely identify the other computer)

48. Concept of public and private IPs? Can two systems connected to the
same network have the same public IPs? How conflict is resolved in
that case?

49. Will I be able to access amazon.com if I'm using private IP (say, if I'm a
part of an organization). Or will I need a public IP as well to connect
with it?

50. If one person is able to access the amazon.com website, while the
other person is not, what can be the possible valid reasons for the 2nd
person, provided the amazon.com website is working fine. Why does
clearing cookies also help in reaching a website?

51. My net isn't working, how do I troubleshoot?

HR + Managerial Round Questions:

1. Tell me about yourself.

2. Why should I hire you?

3. What is your weakness?

4. What are your strengths?

5. Why do you want this job?

6. Where do you see yourself in five years?

7. How would you describe yourself?

8. What was your biggest disappointment?

9. Would you call yourself a team player?

10. Give some examples of your teamwork.

11. Do you prefer teamwork or working independently?

12. “What makes you angry?”

13. Do you have any blind spots?

14. What is a project you have worked on that you are very proud of?

15. What have you done to improve your knowledge last year?

16. What do you do to improve your knowledge?

17. How do you rate your communication skills?

18. What is more important to you money or success?

19. What kind of person would you refuse to work with?

20. How long can you commit to working with us?

21. Tell me about the challenges you have faced to complete a project?

22. Have you worked with someone you didn’t like? if so, how did you
handle it?

23. Tell us about a time you failed and how did you bounce back up from
it?
24. Tell me a time when you went above and beyond to deliver results?

25. Tell me about a time when you had a problem and how did you solve
it?

26. Tell me about a time you were wrong?

27. Tell me a time when and how did you overcome the situation?

28. Tell me a time when you went above and beyond to solve a problem
and that helped your team.

29. Ever faced any situation when I completed the work just before the
deadline? How I was able to cope with pressure and manage
everything in time at the last moment.

30. When was the time you worked out of the scope of your
responsibilities?

31. Tell me about a time when you had a conflict in the team?

32. Give an example of a situation in which you saw an opportunity in a

potential problem. What did you do? What was the result?

33. In which way will you respond if your professor or manager shares
negative feedback publicly or in the bay?

34. Tell me about the most complex idea you have had to explain to
someone?