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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

5 questions in Enterprise Architecture.

  1. EA Domains beginner Multiple choice

    A team says a choice is "an enterprise architecture concern, not ours". What actually distinguishes an enterprise-level decision from a team-level one?

    2 min answer governanceautonomyboundariesdecision-scope
  2. EA Frameworks beginner

    A company of 900 engineers has no enterprise architecture function and every team designs its own systems competently. Which decisions are genuinely absent, rather than simply made elsewhere?

    3 min answer enterprise-architecturedecision-rightsstandardsea-function
  3. EA Frameworks beginner Multiple choice

    Fourteen teams produce architecture diagrams nobody can compare. The same rectangle means a single service in one diagram and an entire platform in another; arrows sometimes mean data flow and sometimes deployment. Leadership cannot answer which applications support the claims capability or which run on the estate leaving support next year. The CIO asks which EA framework to adopt. Which move addresses the actual problem?

    3 min answer ea-frameworksarchimatetogafzachman
  4. Technology Architecture beginner

    An internal team and a packaged-software vendor both pick the same message serialisation format this quarter. Two years later the internal team replaces it in a single sprint. The vendor still supports it and expects to for another decade - an ERP vendor in SAP's position has customers whose 12-year-old integrations must keep working across a major release. Nothing about the technology differs. What makes the same choice a different decision for each of them?

    3 min answer technology-architecturereversibilitybackward-compatibilitydependents
  5. TOGAF beginner

    A team is told to build against a target architecture that was approved 20 months ago, in what the EA function called Phase C. Nobody has revised the document since, and two of its nine named products have been discontinued by their vendors. The Open Group's ADM runs a Preliminary phase and Phases A to H with Requirements Management at the centre. Which phase do organisations actually skip, and what does skipping it cost?

    3 min answer togafadmarchitecture-change-managementtarget-state