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2667 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 areas2667 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 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

93 questions in Business Architecture.

  1. Regulatory Constraints advanced

    A mobility platform operates across several countries with different licensing, data residency, payment and labour regulations. How should regulation shape the architecture?

    2 min answer regulationmulti-marketresidencyconfigurability
  2. Regulatory Constraints advanced

    An insurance platform's product roadmap is repeatedly disrupted by regulatory change. How should regulation be incorporated into the architecture rather than reacted to?

    2 min answer ackodigitregulationconfigurability
  3. Stakeholder Analysis beginner

    A migration proposal cuts total three-year cost from £4.2m to £3.1m. The finance director objects to it. What mechanism makes a cheaper design worse from their seat, and what would you change about the proposal?

    3 min answer stakeholderscapex-opexfinancebusiness-case
  4. Stakeholder Analysis intermediate

    An architect faces conflicting requirements from sales, operations, finance and compliance. What method resolves this without deferring to seniority?

    2 min answer moglixstakeholdersconflicttradeoffs
  5. Stakeholder Analysis intermediate

    An architect faces conflicting requirements: sales wants a feature in six weeks, security requires a control that takes twelve, and the platform team wants it built on the paved road that does not yet support it. How should this be handled?

    2 min answer stakeholdersnegotiationdecision-rightsescalation
  6. Stakeholder Analysis intermediate

    Which stakeholders in an architecture decision do architects most often overlook, and what does each care about?

    2 min answer stakeholdersoperationssecurityfinance
  7. Stakeholder Analysis intermediate

    You are handed a design brief for a system spanning four departments. What do you do before designing anything?

    1 min answer stakeholdersrequirementsbusiness-architecture
  8. Team Topologies advanced

    A mobility platform's teams are organised by technical layer - mobile, backend, data, infrastructure. Why does that slow delivery, and what is the alternative?

    2 min answer olateam-topologiesconwaystream-aligned
  9. Team Topologies intermediate

    A platform company's teams are organised by technical layer - frontend, backend, database, infrastructure. What problems does this create, and what is the alternative?

    2 min answer team-topologiesstream-alignedhandoffsconways-law
  10. Team Topologies beginner Multiple choice

    A team of four engineers owns one service with a 24/7 paging rota. Leadership wants them to take on two more services of similar size. Which fact about the rota decides whether that is possible?

    3 min answer team-topologieson-callcognitive-loadownership
  11. Team Topologies advanced

    Leadership accepts that the current three-layer team structure is producing a tightly coupled system, and reorganises into cross-functional product teams in one step. What happens over the following six months?

    3 min answer conways lawreorganisationownershiptransition cost
  12. Team Topologies intermediate

    When should a capability be owned by a platform team rather than by a stream-aligned team?

    2 min answer team-topologiesplatformcognitive-loadself-service