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126 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 areas126 Architecture Fundamentals2 Distributed Systems26 Data Architecture23 Cloud Architecture19 Networking3 API & Integration Architecture1 Reliability & Resilience4 Observability3 Performance & Capacity Engineering3 Security Architecture16 Cost Architecture & FinOps3 Business Architecture2 Architecture Communication2 Enterprise Architecture1 Legacy Modernization2 AI-Era Architecture3 Software Architecture & Engineering3 Architecture Patterns3 Architecture Decision-Making6 The Architect's Meta-Skills1
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

11 questions in Cloud Architecture.

  1. Autoscaling advanced

    A service autoscales on CPU. During incidents it never scales out, even as latency triples. Why, and what would you scale on instead?

    2 min answer autoscalingmetricssaturation
  2. Availability Zones advanced

    One availability zone becomes unavailable. Walk through what happens to a typical three-tier application and what you would have changed.

    2 min answer zonesfailuresingle-points
  3. Backup Strategies advanced

    A team says "backups run nightly and are retained for 30 days". You have one hour to assess whether they could actually recover. What do you check?

    2 min answer backuprecoveryransomwareverification
  4. Cloud Architecture advanced

    In the 2017 AWS S3 outage, the status page could not report the outage because it depended on S3. What does that tell you about designing status and control systems?

    2 min answer blast-radiuscontrol-planedependenciescase-study
  5. Cloud Architecture advanced

    The business asks for "multi-region" after a regional outage. Before agreeing, what do you need to establish, and what are you actually signing up for?

    2 min answer multi-regiondrcostconsistency
  6. Cloud Migration advanced

    You are asked to lead a migration of 300 applications to cloud. What happens in the first ninety days?

    2 min answer migrationdiscoverysequencingwaves
  7. Edge Computing advanced

    A team proposes moving personalisation to edge functions to cut latency. When does that work and when does it backfire?

    2 min answer edgelatencystatecaching
  8. Kubernetes advanced

    One service restarts unpredictably; another is slow with low CPU. Both run on Kubernetes. What are you looking at?

    2 min answer kuberneteslimitsthrottlingoom
  9. Landing Zones advanced

    An organisation is starting cloud adoption. Three teams want to deploy next month. What must exist first, and what can wait?

    2 min answer landing-zonegovernancesequencing
  10. Managed Services advanced

    A team wants to self-manage Kafka on Kubernetes to save money against the managed service. Evaluate.

    2 min answer managed-servicestcooperations
  11. Multi-Region Architecture advanced

    Leadership asks for multi-region "for resilience". What do you establish before designing anything?

    2 min answer multi-regionrtorporequirements