AWS SNS Assessment Test

An AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) Assessment Test evaluates candidates on their proficiency in using AWS SNS to build scalable, reliable, and real-time messaging applications. AWS SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables the delivery of messages or notifications to distributed systems and applications. This assessment typically covers the following aspects:

1. SNS Basics: Testing candidates' understanding of fundamental SNS concepts, including topics, subscriptions, publishers, subscribers, endpoints, message attributes, message filtering, and message delivery options.
2. Topic Creation and Management: Evaluating candidates' ability to create, configure, and manage SNS topics, including setting topic policies, defining access controls, enabling encryption, and managing topic attributes.
3. Subscription Management: Assessing candidates' proficiency in creating and managing subscriptions to SNS topics, including configuring subscription endpoints (e.g., email, SMS, HTTP/S, Lambda function, SQS queue), managing subscription attributes, and handling subscription confirmation.
4. Publishing Messages: Testing candidates' skills in publishing messages to SNS topics, including sending messages programmatically using AWS SDKs, CLI, or API, specifying message attributes, and sending message payloads in various formats (e.g., JSON, text).
5. Message Filtering: Evaluating candidates' knowledge of message filtering capabilities in SNS, including subscription filter policies (filter policies), message attribute-based filtering, and message filtering using message structure.
6. Message Delivery: Assessing candidates' understanding of SNS message delivery options, including message fanout to multiple subscribers, message ordering, message deduplication, message retries, and handling message delivery failures.
7. Integration with AWS Services: Testing candidates' familiarity with integrating SNS with other AWS services for event-driven architectures and application workflows, such as triggering Lambda functions, sending notifications to mobile devices using SNS Mobile Push, and integrating with AWS IoT for device messaging.
8. Security and Compliance: Evaluating candidates' knowledge of security best practices for securing SNS configurations, implementing encryption in transit and at rest, managing IAM permissions for SNS resources, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
9. Monitoring and Logging: Assessing candidates' skills in monitoring SNS usage, message delivery metrics, and error rates using Amazon CloudWatch metrics, CloudTrail logs, and SNS delivery status logs, as well as troubleshooting message delivery issues.
10. Cost Optimization: Testing candidates' ability to optimize SNS usage for cost efficiency, estimating messaging costs, configuring message filtering to reduce unnecessary message deliveries, and leveraging SNS message attributes for efficient message routing.
11. High Availability and Scalability: Evaluating candidates' understanding of SNS architecture for high availability and scalability, including regional availability, fault tolerance, and message throughput, as well as configuring SNS for cross-region redundancy and disaster recovery.
12. Compliance and Governance: Testing candidates' awareness of compliance considerations when using SNS, such as data privacy regulations, message encryption requirements, message retention policies, and implementing access controls using AWS IAM.

Overall, our AWS SNS Assessment Test measures candidates' knowledge, skills, and experience in designing, implementing, and managing real-time messaging solutions using AWS SNS, providing valuable insights into their capabilities in building scalable and reliable distributed systems.