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Cracking the IT Architect Interview

By : Sameer Paradkar
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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)

Summary


This chapter covered the Q&A for enterprise architecture and modernization domain. Enterprise Architecture is a collection of strategic information that describes business, application, data and infrastructure to operate the business. This also includes mission & goals, business processes, roles, organizational structures, information, applications and systems. The section also covered the Q&A for the enterprise architecture, application architecture, business architecture, and data architecture, infrastructure and security and architecture governance. The key skills SMEs will learn will be methodologies, best practices and frameworks, common pitfalls to be avoided and patterns to leverage, architecture governance concepts, principles and guidelines for various domains, best practices architecting, KPI and success factors.