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Cracking the IT Architect Interview

By : Paradkar
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Cracking the IT Architect Interview

By: 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 (9 chapters)

Summary

Software quality attributes are a critical factor in the long-standing success of any enterprise IT. Quality attributes increase organizational efficiency and profitability, reduce maintenance cost, and achieve customer loyalty. Quality audits help ensure that the software achieves value and efficiency. It is critical to perform quality audits in a consistent and planned manner. These audits should be typically carried out throughout the SDLC to validate artifacts produced at the end of various SDLC phases. Effective audits should not only focus on process conformance but also incorporate software architecture, design, build, and test to improve software quality.

Software quality is best achieved in the early stages of the SDLC, when the cost to remediate is less than it would be during the later phases of SDLC. Hence it is advisable to find and rectify defects close to their point of origin to reduce the impact. Normally, a software development life cycle is composed of many phases...