Last updated on May 4th, 2022 at 06:03 am
Ace The Technical Program Management Interview !
Self-Paced
Everything You Would Need To Know To Ace TPM Interviews !
Chapter 0 : Technical Program Manager 101
- Introduction (1:51)
- Roles & Responsibilities Of A TPM (14:43)
- Skills Needed for a Technical Program Manager (12:54)
- Types of Technical Program Managers (19:12)
- Moving up as a Technical Program Manager (15:16)
- How to Land A TPM Job (20:17)
1 hr 24min
Chapter 1 : The Exclusive TPM Community
- Live Webinars Where You Can Ask Questions
- Slack Channel For Group Discussions
- Other TPM Communities
- Free Peer to Peer Mock Interviews Community
- Mario’s Daily Jobs Posts: During Covid
- Where to look for jobs?
- Understanding What a TPM Does From Various People
- Book Recommendations
Chapter 2 : 100+ Interview Questions with Answering Guidance
- Interview Answering Methodologies
- 25+ Program Management Interview Questions & Answers
- 25+ Agile/Scrum Interview Questions & Answers
- 35+ Senior/Principal Level TPM Questions
- More Program Management Questions
Chapter 3 : Amazon Interview Questions
- 2021 Amazon Alexa Team’s TPM Full Loop (Design & LP) Questions
- Understanding Amazon’s 14 Leadership Principles
- Amazon Telephone Screening
- 140+ Behavioral Questions That Tie Into Amazon’s Leadership Principles
- 20+ Fundamental Questions Asked at Amazon
- Amazon TPMs Describing “What Makes a Great TPM at Amazon?”(58:27)
- Questions to Ask Your Interviewer
Chapter 4 : Resume Tips & General Interviewing Guidance
- A Detailed Introduction to Scrum.
- A Detailed Introduction to Kanban.
- A Detailed Introduction to SAFe.
Chapter 5 : An Introduction to Agile
- What is Agile?
- Agile vs Waterfall: Similarities and Differences
- Key Agile Metrics
- How To Frame Better User Stories
Chapter 6 : An Introduction to Scrum & Kanban
- Scrum Fundamentals
- When to Use Kanban and When Not To
- Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe (Overview)
- Agile Quiz: 30+ Questions & Answers
Chapter 7 : An Introduction to Project Management
- PMBOK Process Groups Explained
- Where & How to Use Pareto Analysis
- Project Risk Management According to the PMBOK
- Managing Critical Path & Float in A Program
Chapter 8 : All About API's
- API Basics
- API: Use RESTful URLs & Actions
- CRUD Operations
- Microservices Basics
- Microservice Patterns
Chapter 9 : Databases
- Database Basics
- RDBMS Basics
- Popular RDBMS
- Database sharding explained
- Consistency, Availability& Partition Tolerance: CAP Theorem
Chapter 10 : NoSQL Brief Overview
- Why NoSQL?
- Cassandra DB
- Distributed Database
- Graph Database
- Document Database
Chapter 11 : Caching
- An Introduction To Caching
- Memcache
- Content Delivery Network – CDN
Chapter 12: Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- How to go about monitoring your applications ?
Chapter 13: Application Security
- IMPORTANT NOTE
- Getting ed with Web Application Security
- Secure Network Firewall
- SQL Injection
- The Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability: Definition and Prevention
- Securing Web Applications
Chapter 14: Big Data: Fundamental Concepts
- What is Big Data?
- What is Hadoop?
- MapReduce: Introduction
- What is a Data Lake?
Chapter 15: Cloud Basics
- Why Move To The Cloud
- Cloud Computing Models & Their Evolution
- Cloud Basic Building Blocks
- High Availability On The Cloud
Chapter 16: Cloud Principles
- Reasons To Move To The Cloud
- Let’s s With The Basics
- Introduction to Cloud Native Principles
- Horizontal Scaling vs Vertical Scaling & Multi-Tenancy
- Application Migration Strategies
Chapter 17: Operating on The Cloud
- What is DevOps?
- Operational Excellence on the Cloud
- Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
Chapter 18: Security on The Cloud
- Security In a Multi-tenant Environment
- Security On the Cloud – Design Principles
- Basics of Securing Your Cloud
Chapter 19: Understanding Cloud Architecture
- The Well Architected Framework
- Best Practices for the Cloud
- Scaling On The Cloud
- Scale Your Web Application — One Step at a Time
- Reliability on The Cloud
- Understanding Elasticity on the Cloud
- Performance Efficiency on the Cloud
Mario Gerard
A Principal Technical Program Manager and have been in the tech industry for over 14 years. I am an active blogger and podcast host. I have interviewed over 200 TPMs and have a good understanding of what most organizations look for when they hire TPMs.
Reviews and Testimonials
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” The Ace the TPM Interview” course from Mario was eye-opening. It has all the details you need to pass FAANG TPM interviews. It helped me a lot to get several TPM job offers and I landed on the job I want in AWS.”
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“The ‘Ace The Technical Program Management Interview’ course provides a comprehensive guide and a very well written course to brush up foundations and prepare core concepts in a short amount of time. If you add Mario’s blog and podcasts to this course, it technically provides one of the best ways to prepare for a Technical Program Management Career and interviews. I would highly recommend taking this course to TPM aspirants as it covers all key major areas in a focused manner making it an awesome choice!”
