AWS ECS Assessment Test

An AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) Assessment Test evaluates candidates for their proficiency in designing, deploying, and managing containerized applications using Amazon ECS, a fully managed container orchestration service provided by Amazon Web Services. This assessment typically covers the following aspects:

1. Containerization Concepts: Assessing candidates' understanding of containerization principles, Docker technology, container images, Dockerfiles, container registries, and container runtime environments.
2. Amazon ECS Basics: Testing candidates' knowledge of Amazon ECS fundamentals, including task definitions, containers, clusters, services, tasks, and ECS agent architecture.
3. Amazon ECS Architecture: Evaluating candidates' understanding of Amazon ECS architecture components, including ECS clusters, container instances, task definitions, tasks, and services.
4. Deployment Strategies: Assessing candidates' familiarity with various deployment strategies in Amazon ECS, such as rolling updates, blue-green deployments, canary deployments, and immutable deployments.
5. Container Orchestration: Testing candidates' ability to orchestrate and manage containerized applications using Amazon ECS, including scheduling tasks, scaling services, updating task definitions, and managing container lifecycle.
6. Networking and Security: Evaluating candidates' knowledge of networking and security configurations in Amazon ECS, including VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) setup, task networking, security groups, IAM (Identity and Access Management) roles, and container-level security.
7. Load Balancing: Assessing candidates' proficiency in configuring load balancing for containerized applications in Amazon ECS using Application Load Balancers (ALBs) or Network Load Balancers (NLBs) and integrating with ECS services.
8. Service Discovery: Testing candidates' understanding of service discovery mechanisms in Amazon ECS, including integration with AWS CloudMap for dynamic DNS resolution and service discovery.
9. Monitoring and Logging: Evaluating candidates' knowledge of monitoring and logging practices for Amazon ECS clusters and containerized applications, including integration with Amazon CloudWatch for metrics, alarms, and logs.
10. Auto Scaling: Assessing candidates' ability to configure auto scaling for Amazon ECS services based on CPU utilization, memory utilization, or custom CloudWatch metrics to ensure optimal resource utilization and performance.
11. High Availability and Fault Tolerance: Testing candidates' skills in designing highly available and fault-tolerant architectures for containerized applications running on Amazon ECS, including multi-AZ deployments, fault tolerance strategies, and recovery mechanisms.
12. Cost Optimization: Evaluating candidates' understanding of cost optimization strategies for Amazon ECS deployments, including resource provisioning, instance types, spot instances, reserved instances, and optimizing container resource allocation.
13. Integration with AWS Services: Assessing candidates' familiarity with integrating Amazon ECS with other AWS services such as AWS Fargate, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS X-Ray for continuous integration, delivery, management, and monitoring.

Overall, our AWS ECS Assessment Test measures candidates' knowledge, practical skills, and hands-on experience in deploying and managing containerized applications at scale using Amazon ECS, providing valuable insights into their capabilities.