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2948 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 areas2948 Architecture Fundamentals91 Distributed Systems101 Data Architecture90 Cloud Architecture87 Networking96 API & Integration Architecture87 Reliability & Resilience99 Observability92 Performance & Capacity Engineering100 Security Architecture105 Cost Architecture & FinOps102 Business Architecture103 Architecture Communication102 Enterprise Architecture100 Legacy Modernization102 AI-Era Architecture106 Software Architecture & Engineering93 Architecture Patterns94 Architecture Decision-Making101 The Architect's Meta-Skills102 Delivery & Release Engineering103 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience102 Testing & Quality Architecture102 Data Platform Architecture98 Streaming & Real-Time Data103 Data Governance & Semantics91 Frontend & Experience Architecture101 Edge, Mobile & IoT98 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture99 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk98
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

4 questions in Mentoring.

  1. Mentoring intermediate Multiple choice

    An architecture guild's charter - a monthly 60-minute meeting with a rotating presenter and the stated purpose of sharing knowledge and aligning on best practice - tracks attendance as its success metric and produces no decisions and no artefacts. Twenty months in nothing about how services are built has changed. Which single change to the charter is most likely to change the estate?

    3 min answer mentoringguildjudgementreview
  2. Mentoring intermediate Multiple choice

    An engineer you mentor proposes a design that will work but is not the one you would choose: a single queue with a database-backed dedupe table where you would have used the broker's own idempotent producer. They have thought it through. You are reviewing it. What should you do?

    2 min answer mentoringreviewjudgementreversibility
  3. Mentoring advanced

    How do you develop architectural judgement in an engineer, as opposed to reviewing their designs?

    2 min answer mentoringjudgementscalingquestions
  4. Mentoring intermediate

    How does an architect develop architectural judgement in others rather than just answering their questions?

    2 min answer mentoringjudgementreasoningdelegation