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Real cloud and DevOps interview questions, answered in your own words. A Tech Pathway reviewer marks every answer and tells you what to work on next.

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What a review looks like

  1. The question

    It comes from the module you're on: technical, scenario or behavioral.

  2. Your answer

    Type it, record a voice note, or both. It saves as you go.

  3. Submitted

    When every question in the session has an answer, you send it for review.

  4. Marked

    A reviewer checks each concept the question is about: addressed, partially or missed.

  5. Scored

    Technical accuracy, problem-solving approach and communication, each from 1 to 5.

Example reviewAWS networkingReviewed

QuestionInstances in a private subnet can't reach the internet to pull package updates. How would you troubleshoot it?

AnswerI'd start with the private subnet's route table and check that 0.0.0.0/0 points at a NAT gateway. Then I'd confirm the NAT gateway is available and has an Elastic IP. After that I'd check the instance's security group allows outbound traffic, and run curl from the instance to see where the request stops.

  1. Addressed. Default route to the NAT gateway. Right place to start.

  2. Partially. Say where the NAT gateway lives: a public subnet with a route to an internet gateway.

  3. Missed. Network ACLs. They're stateless, so return traffic on ephemeral ports has to be allowed too.

Technical accuracy
3/5
Problem-solving approach
4/5
Communication
4/5

Reviewer's noteClear order of checks, and testing from the instance itself is a good habit. Next time, place the NAT gateway and mention NACLs.

A person reads every answer.

There's no AI grading and no AI detection. A Tech Pathway reviewer reads what you actually wrote, marks it against the concepts the question is about, and tells you what to work on next.

  • Saves as you go

    Leave in the middle of a session and pick up where you stopped. One session is open at a time.

  • Type or talk

    Write your answer, record a voice note, or do both on the same question.

  • Picks up where you're weak

    Technical practice starts you on the subtopics your reviews say need the most work.

Three ways to practice

  • Technical questions

    Cloud, Linux, networking, infrastructure as code, containers and CI/CD. You choose from three subtopics picked for you.

    For exampleWhat happens to a container's data when the container is removed?

  • Scenario practice

    Design and troubleshooting problems that pull several concepts together, the way a real incident does.

    For exampleDeploys started failing after someone edited the Terraform state. Where do you look first?

  • Behavioral questions

    The questions that aren't about technology: how you work with a team, what you own, why you want the role.

    For exampleTell me about a time you owned a mistake in production.

Practice follows your program

Pick the module you're on and the questions come from it. As your reviews come back, the platform points you at what to practice next.

  • Module 1 · Cloud Fundamentals

    Module 1 · Cloud Fundamentals

    What cloud engineering is, servers and virtualization, AWS basics (EC2, S3, IAM, regions), security groups, SSH and the terminal.

  • Module 2 · Linux & Networking

    Module 2 · Linux & Networking

    Linux administration and troubleshooting, DNS, networking, email/SMTP, load balancing.

  • Module 3 · IAM & Security, Databases & Monitoring

    Module 3 · IAM & Security, Databases & Monitoring

    Identity and access, security operations, databases, logging and monitoring.

  • Module 4 · Infrastructure as Code

    Module 4 · Infrastructure as Code

    Terraform and infrastructure-as-code tooling.

  • Module 5 · Python & Ansible

    Module 5 · Python & Ansible

    Automation with Python and configuration management with Ansible.

  • Module 6 · Containers, CI/CD, Jenkins & GitHub

    Module 6 · Containers, CI/CD, Jenkins & GitHub

    Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, Jenkins and GitHub.

  • Module 7 · Projects & Professional Skills

    Cloud architecture, high availability, system design, and interview/professional questions.