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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 TOGAF.

  1. TOGAF beginner

    A team is told to build against a target architecture that was approved 20 months ago, in what the EA function called Phase C. Nobody has revised the document since, and two of its nine named products have been discontinued by their vendors. The Open Group's ADM runs a Preliminary phase and Phases A to H with Requirements Management at the centre. Which phase do organisations actually skip, and what does skipping it cost?

    3 min answer togafadmarchitecture-change-managementtarget-state
  2. TOGAF beginner Multiple choice

    An enterprise architecture team has worked through a formal framework's method for eight months and produced catalogues of applications, data entities and technology standards. Delivery teams do not open any of it. Which part of the method was skipped?

    3 min answer togafadmstakeholdersviewpoints
  3. TOGAF intermediate

    An organisation adopts a formal EA framework and produces extensive deliverables while decisions remain slow. How should such a framework be used?

    2 min answer togafframeworkspragmatismdeliverables
  4. TOGAF intermediate

    How would you use an enterprise architecture framework without producing shelfware?

    2 min answer togafframeworkartefactsdecisions