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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. Application Architecture advanced

    A global employment platform must handle country-specific rules that differ in every dimension. How should the architecture accommodate that variation?

    2 min answer remotedeeljurisdictionvariation
  2. Application Architecture advanced Multiple choice

    An enterprise platform serving many countries keeps hitting jurisdiction-specific rules - different approval chains, retention periods, mandatory fields and tax treatments - that vary independently of each other. Which accommodation holds up as the number of jurisdictions grows?

    2 min answer saplocalisationrule-enginevariability
  3. Application Architecture advanced Multiple choice

    An enterprise platform's application architecture must serve tenants ranging from small businesses to very large enterprises. Should one architecture serve all of them?

    2 min answer application-architecturemulti-tenancytieringsalesforce
  4. Application Architecture intermediate

    You inherit an estate of 300 applications. What do you record about each and what decision does it support?

    2 min answer portfoliolifecycleownershipduplication
  5. Application Portfolio Management intermediate

    A fast-growing company has dozens of internal applications of unknown value. How should the portfolio be assessed, and what decisions should follow?

    2 min answer udaanportfolioassessmenttolerate-invest-migrate
  6. Application Portfolio Management advanced

    A retirement programme will switch off 23 of 140 applications this year. Eleven of them sit on an Oracle Database Enterprise Edition estate licensed by the Processor metric - 4 servers of 32 physical Intel cores each. The business case claims the retirements save 11/140 of the database licence and support cost. Estimate what is actually saved in year one and say which number should drive the retirement order.

    3 min answer application-portfoliolicence-costsoracledecommissioning
  7. Application Portfolio Management intermediate

    An enterprise has an application portfolio of several hundred systems and cannot decide what to retire. What analysis makes the decision tractable?

    2 min answer portfoliorationalisationtieringevidence
  8. Application Portfolio Management advanced

    An estate has 300 applications and the organisation cannot support them all. How do you decide what to retire?

    2 min answer portfolioretirementrationalisationevidence
  9. Application Portfolio Management intermediate

    You inherit 300 applications and are asked which to retire first. Estimate what a single low-traffic internal application costs the organisation per year, and say which part of that number should drive the retirement order.

    2 min answer portfoliorationalisationtotal-cost-of-ownershipestimation
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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