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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

8 questions in Cloud Architecture.

  1. Cloud Architecture intermediate

    A team tells you backups run nightly and are retained for 30 days. What is missing from that answer?

    2 min answer backupdisaster-recoveryverificationransomware
  2. Cloud Architecture intermediate Multiple choice

    A team wants to build a new internal API on serverless functions. It will serve steady traffic of about 200 requests per second during business hours. What do you advise?

    2 min answer serverlesscontainerscostdecision-making
  3. Cloud Databases intermediate Multiple choice

    A serverless API works in testing and fails under load with connection errors. The database is at 5% CPU. Explain and fix.

    2 min answer serverlessconnectionsproxyscaling
  4. Cloud Governance intermediate

    A DR test fails: the secondary region cannot launch enough instances. What happened, and what standing checks prevent it?

    2 min answer quotasdrgovernance
  5. Load Balancing intermediate

    Every deployment produces a small spike of 502s that the team has learned to ignore. Fix it.

    2 min answer drainingdeploymentgraceful-shutdown
  6. Cloud Storage intermediate

    Choose storage for four workloads: a Postgres data directory, user-uploaded images, a shared build cache, and seven years of audit records.

    2 min answer storageblockobjecttiering
  7. Compute Models intermediate

    A fleet of 200 instances averages 15% CPU and 85% memory. Finance wants a 40% cost reduction. What do you do?

    2 min answer rightsizinginstance-familycost
  8. Infrastructure as Code intermediate

    Half your production changes are made through the console during incidents. The IaC repository no longer matches reality. What do you do?

    2 min answer iacdriftgovernancebreak-glass