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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

2707 questions.

  1. Architecture Documentation intermediate

    You are leaving a project in two days and have two hours to document the system. What do you write and what do you deliberately leave out?

    2 min answer documentationadrhandovergoogle
  2. Architecture Documentation intermediate

    Your team maintains a 90-page architecture document that is always out of date and nobody reads. What should replace it?

    1 min answer documentationcommunicationadr
  3. Architecture Fundamentals intermediate

    A team shows you a design with eight services. Without knowing the domain, what questions tell you whether the boundaries are right?

    2 min answer couplingcohesionboundariesreview
  4. Architecture Fundamentals intermediate

    Instagram served 14 million users with three engineers on Django and Postgres. What does that tell you about how to choose an architecture for a new product?

    2 min answer case-studyinstagramsimplicitypragmatism
  5. Architecture Fundamentals advanced

    Prime Video's video-quality monitoring team moved from a serverless step-function pipeline back to a single long-running service and reported a large cost reduction. What actually changed, and which generalisation from this would be wrong?

    2 min answer prime-videoserverlessmonolithcost-per-request
  6. Architecture Fundamentals beginner Multiple choice

    YouTube ingests hundreds of thousands of hours of video a day and serves billions of watch sessions. A new engineer proposes that "the architecture" of YouTube is its choice of programming languages and frameworks. What is wrong with that framing, and what is the architecture actually?

    2 min answer fundamentalsdefinitionyoutubesignificant-decisions
  7. Architecture Governance intermediate

    A mid-sized company needs architectural consistency without the overhead of a formal governance function. What is the minimum viable arrangement?

    2 min answer moglixgovernancelightweightdecision-records
  8. Architecture Governance intermediate Multiple choice

    An organisation of 120 teams ships several hundred changes a day. Architecture standards exist as a wiki, adherence is inconsistent, and the review board has a six-week queue. One governance investment can be funded this year. Which comes first?

    3 min answer governancepolicy-as-codeconformancepipelines
  9. Architecture Governance advanced

    An organisation shipping many changes daily needs architectural governance that does not become a bottleneck. What model works?

    2 min answer governancespeedguardrailsdecision-rights
  10. Architecture Governance advanced

    You are asked to restart an enterprise architecture function that was disbanded two years ago after being seen as a blocker. How do you approach the first six months?

    2 min answer enterprise-architecturegovernanceadoptioninfluence
  11. Architecture Governance advanced

    You inherit an enterprise architecture function that delivery teams route around and executives consider overhead. What do you change?

    2 min answer enterprise-architecturegovernancepaved-roadmetrics
  12. Architecture Governance advanced

    Your organisation has an architecture standard that most teams ignore. Leadership asks you to enforce it. How do you approach this?

    2 min answer governancestandardsadoptioninfluence