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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
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45 questions in Enterprise Architecture.

  1. EA Domains intermediate

    An enterprise architecture practice is strong in technology architecture and weak in business and data architecture. What problems does that imbalance cause?

    2 min answer ea-domainsbusiness-architecturedata-architecturebalance
  2. EA Domains intermediate Multiple choice

    Which enterprise architecture domain produces the most value in practice, and why?

    2 min answer enterprise-architecturedatadomainsownership
  3. EA Frameworks intermediate

    A fast-growing technology company is deciding whether to adopt a formal EA framework. What should decide it, and what is the alternative?

    2 min answer ea-frameworksfitlightweightgrowth
  4. EA Frameworks intermediate

    Which enterprise architecture artefacts would you actually maintain, and why those?

    2 min answer artefactsframeworksdecisionsmaintenance
  5. EA Metrics intermediate

    An enterprise architecture function needs to demonstrate value. Which metrics are meaningful and which are vanity?

    2 min answer ea-metricsoutcomesvaluemeasurement
  6. EA Metrics intermediate

    Leadership wants to buy an enterprise architecture repository tool. How do you advise?

    1 min answer enterprise-architecturetoolinggovernance
  7. InnerSource intermediate

    An organisation adopts an innersource model so teams can contribute to each other's services. It mostly does not happen. What conditions does innersource require?

    2 min answer innersourcecontributionownershipincentives
  8. InnerSource intermediate

    An organisation has published an innersource contribution guide, opened every internal repository, and added a company goal for cross-team contributions. Six months in there have been eleven contributions across 200 repositories. Review the programme.

    3 min answer innersourceincentivesplatform-teamsmaintainer-capacity
  9. InnerSource intermediate

    An organisation wants shared internal libraries and services to be improvable by any team. What conditions make innersource work, and when does it fail?

    2 min answer innersourceownershipcontributionplatform
  10. InnerSource intermediate

    An organisation wants shared internal libraries maintained collaboratively across teams. What must be true for innersource to work, and when does it fail?

    2 min answer gustoinnersourceownershipcontribution
  11. InnerSource intermediate

    Team A is blocked for three weeks waiting on a small change from Team B. What are the options and what does each cost?

    2 min answer innersourcedependenciesbottleneckownership
  12. Paved Roads intermediate

    An organisation builds a paved road and half the teams build their own infrastructure anyway. What does the adoption gap indicate?

    2 min answer paved-roadadoptiondeveloper-experienceplatform