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2988 questions of the kind that actually get asked — in interviews, in architecture review boards, and by the person who has to run the thing at 3 AM. Every answer states the trade-off rather than the slogan, and says when the obvious choice is the wrong one.

All areas2988 Architecture Fundamentals91 Distributed Systems111 Data Architecture100 Cloud Architecture97 Networking96 API & Integration Architecture97 Reliability & Resilience99 Observability92 Performance & Capacity Engineering100 Security Architecture105 Cost Architecture & FinOps102 Business Architecture103 Architecture Communication102 Enterprise Architecture100 Legacy Modernization102 AI-Era Architecture106 Software Architecture & Engineering93 Architecture Patterns94 Architecture Decision-Making101 The Architect's Meta-Skills102 Delivery & Release Engineering103 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience102 Testing & Quality Architecture102 Data Platform Architecture98 Streaming & Real-Time Data103 Data Governance & Semantics91 Frontend & Experience Architecture101 Edge, Mobile & IoT98 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture99 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

2 questions in Application Portfolio Management.

  1. Application Portfolio Management advanced

    A retirement programme will switch off 23 of 140 applications this year. Eleven of them sit on an Oracle Database Enterprise Edition estate licensed by the Processor metric - 4 servers of 32 physical Intel cores each. The business case claims the retirements save 11/140 of the database licence and support cost. Estimate what is actually saved in year one and say which number should drive the retirement order.

    3 min answer application-portfoliolicence-costsoracledecommissioning
  2. Application Portfolio Management advanced

    An estate has 300 applications and the organisation cannot support them all. How do you decide what to retire?

    2 min answer portfolioretirementrationalisationevidence