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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)

Non-functional requirements


Maintaining software is hard and therefore expensive; and IT departments are often under-funded. However, if they are in a Just do it mode, then non-functional requirements are easy to be forgotten. The consequences of leaving these NFRs lead directly to the aforementioned maintenance problems and increased technical debt.

NFRs are necessary to finishing the IT applications journey. While one might consider two or three important NFRs (such as performance and security), one will probably not cover the others extensively, or you might miss out on them all together. And if one does allocate time to deal with them, when the schedule slips, the NFRs may be the first thing to get dropped. So, whether you plan for NFRs or not, chances are high you won't cover them 100%. One should try to avoid adding technical debt and maintenance nightmares to the application portfolio.

What are the best practices to ensure good performance in an application?

Performance is defined as...