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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
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

91 questions in Enterprise Architecture.

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Architecture Review Boards advanced

    A review board rejected a team's design in week 3 and required it to use the shared notification service instead. 14 months later that shared service's queue backed up for 4 hours during a marketing send; payment confirmations went with it, because they travelled the same path. The board's decision record names the mandate, the date and the attendees, and nothing else. What failed, and which governance decision made the outage possible?

    3 min answer architecture-review-boardshared-servicesaccountabilityblast-radius
  5. Architecture Review Boards intermediate

    An architecture review board reviews everything and has a six-week queue. What should it stop reviewing, and how should the triggers be defined?

    2 min answer review-boardtriggersqueuesignificance
  6. Architecture Review Boards intermediate

    An architecture review board with a six-week queue is changed overnight: its approval becomes advisory, and teams may proceed without it. What happens over the following six months?

    2 min answer governancereview-boardssecond-order-effectsadvisory
  7. Architecture Review Boards advanced

    You inherit an architecture review board with a six-week queue and a poor reputation with engineering. What do you change first?

    2 min answer governanceinfluenceprocess
  8. Capability Maps in EA advanced

    A CFO points at the portfolio and asks why two business units need two CRM systems costing £1.4M a year between them, and asks you to consolidate. Walk me through how you would answer.

    3 min answer capability-maprationalisationportfoliostakeholders
  9. Capability Maps in EA advanced

    A CIO asks for a capability map of the enterprise. How do you scope it so it is actually used?

    2 min answer eabusiness-architecturepragmatism
  10. Capability Maps in EA intermediate

    An enterprise capability map is complete and current, and no investment decision has been changed by it. What is missing?

    2 min answer capability-mapoverlaysdecisionsea
  11. Capability Maps in EA intermediate

    Review this. A capability map decomposed to four levels - 380 boxes - each carrying an owner name, a maturity score of 1 to 5, a red/amber/green status and links to supporting systems. It took 7 months and two contractors. In the year since publication it has been used once, to answer whether the two business units duplicate capabilities. What would you remove, what would you change, and what would you leave alone?

    3 min answer capability-maps-eadecompositionmaturity-modelsoverlays
  12. Capability Maps in EA intermediate

    You have a capability map and four possible overlays. Which do you use, and how do you choose?

    1 min answer enterprise-architecturecapabilitycommunication