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98 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 areas98 Architecture Fundamentals2 Distributed Systems26 Data Architecture23 Cloud Architecture4 Networking3 API & Integration Architecture1 Reliability & Resilience4 Observability3 Performance & Capacity Engineering3 Security Architecture3 Cost Architecture & FinOps3 Business Architecture2 Architecture Communication2 Enterprise Architecture1 Legacy Modernization2 AI-Era Architecture3 Software Architecture & Engineering3 Architecture Patterns3 Architecture Decision-Making6 The Architect's Meta-Skills1
Difficulty Any beginner intermediate advanced

3 questions in Security Architecture.

  1. Security Architecture advanced

    Equifax was breached in 2017 through a vulnerability with a patch available two months earlier. Beyond "patch faster", what architectural and governance failures does that imply?

    2 min answer complianceprivacyvulnerability-managementcase-study
  2. Security Architecture advanced

    The 2019 Capital One breach chained a server-side request forgery to an over-permissive IAM role. Walk the chain, and say which single control would have contained it.

    2 min answer ssrfiamleast-privilegecloud
  3. Security Architecture advanced

    Your services currently trust anything inside the VPC. A security review says move to zero trust. What changes, and what will it cost you?

    2 min answer zero-trustmtlsidentitysecurity