Quiz
2741 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 areas2741
Architecture Fundamentals81
Distributed Systems101
Data Architecture90
Cloud Architecture87
Networking86
API & Integration Architecture78
Reliability & Resilience99
Observability92
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 Architecture102
Data Platform Architecture98
Streaming & Real-Time Data93
Data Governance & Semantics91
Frontend & Experience Architecture91
Edge, Mobile & IoT88
Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90
Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98
90 questions in Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture.
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Consent Architecture intermediate
A customer withdrew marketing consent three weeks ago and is still receiving emails. The consent record is correct. Where is the failure?
2 min answer consentintegrationcompliance -
Consent Architecture advanced
A regulator asks how you ensure marketing consent withdrawal is honoured everywhere. What does the architecture need to show?
2 min answer consentprivacypropagationevidence -
Consent Architecture advanced
An insurance platform must record and honour consent across many purposes and channels. What must the architecture provide?
2 min answer ackoconsentpurposeenforcement -
Consent Architecture advanced
Consent must be captured, honoured across every system, and proven to a regulator. How should this be architected, and why do consent implementations usually fail?
2 min answer consentgdprpurpose-limitationpropagation -
Consent Architecture advanced
Design consent management for a publisher with advertising, analytics and personalisation across web and apps.
1 min answer consentadtechpropagationaudit -
Cross-Border Transfer advanced Multiple choice
A collaboration platform must move some personal data between jurisdictions. What mechanisms exist and how does architecture support them?
1 min answer transferjurisdictionsafeguardsassessment -
Cross-Border Transfer advanced
A platform must move personal data between jurisdictions. What does the architecture need to support, beyond the legal mechanism?
2 min answer remotetransfermechanismsminimisation -
Cross-Border Transfer intermediate Multiple choice
An EU-based SaaS product runs entirely in Frankfurt. Its 24-hour support rota includes engineers in a country without an adequacy decision, who can view customer records to diagnose issues. Legal flags this as a cross-border transfer. Which control best addresses the finding?
3 min answer cross-border-transfersupport-accessdata-minimisationscc -
Cross-Border Transfer advanced
Your SaaS vendor processes EU customer data in the US. Legal asks for supplementary measures. What can architecture offer?
2 min answer gdprtransfersencryption -
Data Residency advanced
A client says "our data must stay in country". What do you ask before designing anything?
2 min answer residencycompliancerequirements -
Data Residency advanced
A communications platform must keep customer data in-region for several markets. What does that actually require?
1 min answer residencyregional-isolationroutingmetadata -
Data Residency advanced
A delivery marketplace of Swiggy's shape serves five countries from two regions. Its India payments partner points at the Reserve Bank of India's directive of 6 April 2018 requiring payment system data to be stored only in India. Finance asks what a dedicated in-India cell would cost annually before the partnership is signed. Work the number and say what it rules out.
3 min answer data-residencyrbicell-based-architectureunit-economics