Quiz

553 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 areas553 Architecture Fundamentals12 Distributed Systems48 Data Architecture30 Cloud Architecture27 Networking26 API & Integration Architecture17 Reliability & Resilience23 Observability12 Performance & Capacity Engineering14 Security Architecture30 Cost Architecture & FinOps11 Business Architecture8 Architecture Communication8 Enterprise Architecture10 Legacy Modernization10 AI-Era Architecture24 Software Architecture & Engineering10 Architecture Patterns13 Architecture Decision-Making23 The Architect's Meta-Skills11 Delivery & Release Engineering24 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience23 Testing & Quality Architecture23 Data Platform Architecture21 Streaming & Real-Time Data24 Data Governance & Semantics10 Frontend & Experience Architecture15 Edge, Mobile & IoT14 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture18 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk14

Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

2 questions in Cell-Based Architecture.

Quiz

A SaaS platform has had three full outages this year, each affecting all customers. Propose an architectural response.

Your multi-tenant API assigns each customer to one of eight worker pools by hash. One customer's traffic pattern regularly degrades their pool. Improve it.