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2707 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 areas2707 Architecture Fundamentals81 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking86 API & Integration Architecture78 Reliability & Resilience88 Observability81 Performance & Capacity Engineering90 Security Architecture95 Cost Architecture & FinOps92 Business Architecture93 Architecture Communication91 Enterprise Architecture91 Legacy Modernization92 AI-Era Architecture96 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 Architecture98 Streaming & Real-Time Data93 Data Governance & Semantics91 Frontend & Experience Architecture91 Edge, Mobile & IoT88 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

5 questions in Frontend & Experience Architecture.

  1. Accessibility Architecture beginner Multiple choice

    A dashboard lays out six cards in a CSS grid and uses the order property so the most important card appears first on narrow screens while staying later in the HTML. Keyboard users tab through the cards in an order that does not match what they see. The page has about 40 focusable elements. Which change fixes this at the right level?

    2 min answer accessibilityfocus-ordertabindexwcag
  2. Client Caching & Data Layer beginner

    A user renames their account. The settings page shows the new name at once. The dashboard still shows the old name after a full page navigation and corrects itself only after a hard reload or about 15 minutes. Two different caches are involved. Which is which and which one can application code not invalidate?

    2 min answer http-cachedata-layercache-controletag
  3. Client Feature Flags beginner

    You turn off a feature flag evaluated in the browser. Some users keep seeing the old behaviour for hours. Why, and what should the design do about it?

    2 min answer feature-flagscachingpropagationclient-architecture
  4. Design Systems beginner Multiple choice

    Two applications in the same company ship what should be the same primary button, and after a rebrand the shades differ by one step. A third application's button is the old colour entirely. What is the underlying cause, and which change prevents recurrence?

    3 min answer design-tokensdesign-systemsdriftgovernance
  5. Real User Monitoring beginner

    Interaction to Next Paint replaced First Input Delay as a Core Web Vital on 12 March 2024. A site that passed FID comfortably can fail INP badly. What did FID measure, what does INP measure, and why does the change match user complaints better?

    3 min answer inpfidcore-web-vitalsrum