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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)

Business architecture


Business architecture is one domain of EA that describes various architectural aspects of businesses. SMEs that create business architecture are the business architects. Business architecture articulates the functional structure of enterprise including the business process and business capabilities. One of the key outputs of business architecture is business capability models. The business capability is a certain business functionality that delivers business values under specific conditions. The business capabilities are provided via business services and business processes which in turn implement business functionality:

Figure 16: Business capability map

Business architecture is the operating structure and represents the business functions, flows, and information. Business architecture defines key business entities that interact to deliver value to the business stakeholders. Business architecture is a big picture showing all key business functions, operating models,...