This chapter is an outline. The curriculum, learning objectives and
structure are settled; the prose, diagrams and code are still being written.
What is below is the plan for the chapter, not the chapter.
SQS — Interview Cheat Sheet
Read time: 20 min
Question bank with answer skeletons, organised by difficulty. Derived from every module's §11.
Planned contents
- 🟢 Beginner — 25 questions with one-paragraph answers
- 🟡 Intermediate — 35 questions with mechanism-level answers
- 🔴 Advanced — 40 questions with reasoning and trade-offs
- ⚫ System design — 12 scenarios with reference architectures and numbers
- The three answer frameworks (mechanism / diagnosis / design)
- Phrases that impress and phrases that sink you
Design rules for this sheet
- Tables, diagrams and bullets. Prose only where a sentence genuinely beats a row
- Scannable at a glance; printable on a laptop screen
- Every quota and price links to
_reference/aws-facts.md - It answers "remind me", not "teach me" — the course body does the teaching
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