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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)

Big data


Big data defines the business processes that capture, process, archive, and analyze large, complex datasets. The term big data defines technologies that efficiently process complex and large datasets. Big data is a parallel processing mechanism for processing and storing complex and large volumes of heterogeneous datasets at high speed. Big data includes datasets with sizes beyond the ability of normal software to capture, analyze, and process within a tolerable time.

Emerging technologies such as big data, data science, and visualization are enabling organizations to ingest, transform, and visualize information far beyond the capabilities of conventional business intelligence and data warehouses. These forces are a new wave of analytics capabilities which are creating business value and innovation and improving the decision making of senior executives.

Analytics ingests social data, combining it with other organizational data sources, and enables efficient business decision making...