What this book covers

Chapter 1, Architects Role and Growth Path, this chapter will describes core architecture skills and competencies, architects role in ICT and consulting industries, architects growth -paths and competency framework.

Chapter 2, IT Strategy and Advisory, this chapter 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 going through the type of questions asked related to vision, strategy and roadmaps of a company, you’ll be able to describe the key aspects such as best practices and frameworks, Concepts, principles and guidelines

Chapter 3, Enterprise Architecture and Modernization, this chapter covers 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 and goals, business processes, roles, organizational structures, information, applications and systems. The section includes Q&A for the enterprise architecture, application architecture, business architecture, and data architecture, infrastructure and security and architecture governance.

Chapter 4, SOA and Integration, this chapter covers the Q&A for SOA and integration domain. SOA is a set of design principles for building a suite of interoperable, flexible and reusable services based architecture. This section include Q&A for SOA key capabilities, SOA ROI, SOA modernization approaches, SOA entry points, ESB, BPEL, BPM, SOA and security, SOA KPIs, OSIMM, top-down and bottom-up approach, SOA patterns.

Chapter 5, Solution Architecture and Design, this chapter covers the Q&A for solution architecture and design domain. The Q&A covers the following areas JEE framework, OOAD-UML, session management, distributed DB, replication, performance issues, Spring framework, Hibernate, Agile model, MVC and design patterns

Chapter 6, Emerging Technology, this chapter covers the Q&A for emerging technologies which includes big data, cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), analytics, social media, and enterprise mobility.

Chapter 7, Methodologies, Frameworks and NFRs, this chapter covers the Q&A for frameworks and non functional requirements domain.An architecture framework provides principles and practices for creating and using the architecture description of a system. It structures architects' thinking by dividing the architecture description into domains, layers or views, and offers models-typically metrics and diagrams for documenting each view.

This chapter also covers the solutioning of NFRs providing insights into how they will be addressed in the solutioning phase. This section covers key NFRs that are most critical for any project and for each NFR provides the various alternatives pertaining to the solution, the design principle that needs to be applied to achieve the desired outcome for e.g. high availability or scalability or reliability as covered.

Chapter 8, Interview Preparations, this chapter covers interview preparations, competencies and case studies and summary.

Competency Heat-map