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2627 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 areas2627 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture77 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture78 Reliability & Resilience88 Observability81 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture85 Cost Architecture & FinOps82 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture91 Legacy Modernization82 AI-Era Architecture86 Software Architecture & Engineering84 Architecture Patterns84 Architecture Decision-Making91 The Architect's Meta-Skills92 Delivery & Release Engineering93 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience92 Testing & Quality Architecture90 Data Platform Architecture88 Streaming & Real-Time Data93 Data Governance & Semantics81 Frontend & Experience Architecture91 Edge, Mobile & IoT88 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk88
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

41 questions in Enterprise Architecture.

  1. Application Architecture advanced

    A global employment platform must handle country-specific rules that differ in every dimension. How should the architecture accommodate that variation?

    2 min answer remotedeeljurisdictionvariation
  2. Application Architecture advanced Multiple choice

    An enterprise platform serving many countries keeps hitting jurisdiction-specific rules - different approval chains, retention periods, mandatory fields and tax treatments - that vary independently of each other. Which accommodation holds up as the number of jurisdictions grows?

    2 min answer saplocalisationrule-enginevariability
  3. Application Architecture advanced Multiple choice

    An enterprise platform's application architecture must serve tenants ranging from small businesses to very large enterprises. Should one architecture serve all of them?

    2 min answer application-architecturemulti-tenancytieringsalesforce
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Architecture Governance advanced

    An organisation shipping many changes daily needs architectural governance that does not become a bottleneck. What model works?

    2 min answer governancespeedguardrailsdecision-rights
  7. Architecture Governance advanced

    You are asked to restart an enterprise architecture function that was disbanded two years ago after being seen as a blocker. How do you approach the first six months?

    2 min answer enterprise-architecturegovernanceadoptioninfluence
  8. Architecture Governance advanced

    You inherit an enterprise architecture function that delivery teams route around and executives consider overhead. What do you change?

    2 min answer enterprise-architecturegovernancepaved-roadmetrics
  9. Architecture Governance advanced

    Your organisation has an architecture standard that most teams ignore. Leadership asks you to enforce it. How do you approach this?

    2 min answer governancestandardsadoptioninfluence
  10. Architecture Review Boards advanced

    A review board rejected a team's design in week 3 and required it to use the shared notification service instead. 14 months later that shared service's queue backed up for 4 hours during a marketing send; payment confirmations went with it, because they travelled the same path. The board's decision record names the mandate, the date and the attendees, and nothing else. What failed, and which governance decision made the outage possible?

    3 min answer architecture-review-boardshared-servicesaccountabilityblast-radius
  11. Architecture Review Boards advanced

    You inherit an architecture review board with a six-week queue and a poor reputation with engineering. What do you change first?

    2 min answer governanceinfluenceprocess
  12. Capability Maps in EA advanced

    A CFO points at the portfolio and asks why two business units need two CRM systems costing £1.4M a year between them, and asks you to consolidate. Walk me through how you would answer.

    3 min answer capability-maprationalisationportfoliostakeholders