Book Image

Cracking the IT Architect Interview

By : Sameer Paradkar
Book Image

Cracking the IT Architect Interview

By: Sameer Paradkar

Overview of this book

An architect attends multiple interviews for jobs or projects during the course of his or her career. This book is an interview resource created for designers, consultants, technical, solution, domain, enterprise, and chief architects to help them perform well in interview discussions and launch a successful career. The book begins by providing descriptions of architecture skills and competencies that cover the 12 key domains, including 350+ questions relating to these domains. The goal of this book is to cover all the core architectural domains. From an architect’s perspective, it is impossible to revise or learn about all these key areas without a good reference guide – this book is the solution. It shares experiences, learning, insights, and proven methodologies that will benefit practitioners, SMEs, and aspirants in the long run. This book will help you tackle the NFR domain, which is a key aspect pertaining to architecting applications. It typically takes years to understand the core concepts, fundamentals, patterns, and principles related to architecture and designs. This book is a goldmine for the typical questions asked during an interview and will help prepare you for success!
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

IT strategy


This section covers the Q & A for IT strategy and advisory domain. Meeting customer needs and demands and creating technology adoption roadmaps is the primary goal/objective for IT strategy engagements. By answering these types of questions related to vision, strategy and roadmaps of a company, one will be able to understand the key aspects such as vision, IT strategy and roadmap, guiding principles and frameworks and tools.

What is architectural vision and what information does it contain?

Architecture vision is created and defined during the engagement initiation phase. The purpose of architecture vision is to agree with the key organizational stakeholders the requisite outcome for the IT architecture. Architecture vision emphasizes the benefits of the proposed architecture to the decision-makers and is like the elevator pitch for senior executives and CxOs. It also shows how the target architecture supports business strategy, business objectives, and stakeholder concerns...