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Cracking the IT Architect Interview
Cracking the IT Architect Interview

Cracking the IT Architect Interview: The ultimate guide to successful interviews for Enterprise, Business, Domain, Solution, and Technical Architect roles as well as IT Advisory Consultant and Software Designer roles

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Cracking the IT Architect Interview

Chapter 2. IT Strategy and Advisory

This is one of the key sections of the title and deals with IT strategy and advisory domain. This section and the following sections have been written in a Q&A format and are well supported by elaborate diagrams where applicable. This chapter is structured in a way that starts with the strategy and advisory domain and ends with non-functional requirements. You can choose to go through this sequentially from the first to the last or pick and choose the sections relevant to your competencies. The following six domains are covered in the following chapters of the book:

IT Strategy and Advisory

Enterprise Architecture and Modernization

SOA and Integration

Solution Architecture and Design

Emerging Technologies-SMAC

Methodologies, Frameworks, and NFRs

IT strategy

This section covers the Q & A for IT strategy and advisory domain. Meeting customer needs and demands and creating technology adoption roadmaps is the primary goal/objective for IT strategy engagements. By answering these types of questions related to vision, strategy and roadmaps of a company, one will be able to understand the key aspects such as vision, IT strategy and roadmap, guiding principles and frameworks and tools.

What is architectural vision and what information does it contain?

Architecture vision is created and defined during the engagement initiation phase. The purpose of architecture vision is to agree with the key organizational stakeholders the requisite outcome for the IT architecture. Architecture vision emphasizes the benefits of the proposed architecture to the decision-makers and is like the elevator pitch for senior executives and CxOs. It also shows how the target architecture supports business strategy, business objectives, and stakeholder concerns...

Summary

The goal of IT strategy is to gain a competitive advantage to be able to achieve the organization's objectives. Strategic direction is decided by a thoughtful eye on the business horizon. The foundation of competitive strategy is matching up an organization's strategic capabilities with the present and future needs and wants of customers. The fit between organizations strategic capabilities and the customers' needs and wants determines the strategic portfolio of products and services for the organization. The key to establishing this strategic direction are the four key areas:

  • Competitive advantage in markets that gives an edge over rivals
  • Customers and their current and future needs
  • Products and services to develop and support
  • Sales and services for the customers
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  • Learn about Enterprise Architects IT strategy and NFR – this book provides you with methodologies, best practices, and frameworks to ace your interview
  • A holistic view of key architectural skills and competencies with 500+ questions that cover 12 domains
  • 100+ diagrams depicting scenarios, models, and methodologies designed to help you prepare for your interview

Description

An architect attends multiple interviews for jobs or projects during the course of his or her career. This book is an interview resource created for designers, consultants, technical, solution, domain, enterprise, and chief architects to help them perform well in interview discussions and launch a successful career. The book begins by providing descriptions of architecture skills and competencies that cover the 12 key domains, including 350+ questions relating to these domains. The goal of this book is to cover all the core architectural domains. From an architect’s perspective, it is impossible to revise or learn about all these key areas without a good reference guide – this book is the solution. It shares experiences, learning, insights, and proven methodologies that will benefit practitioners, SMEs, and aspirants in the long run. This book will help you tackle the NFR domain, which is a key aspect pertaining to architecting applications. It typically takes years to understand the core concepts, fundamentals, patterns, and principles related to architecture and designs. This book is a goldmine for the typical questions asked during an interview and will help prepare you for success!

Who is this book for?

This book is for aspiring enterprise, business, domain, solution, and technical architects. It is also ideal for IT advisory consultants and IT designers who wish to interview for such a role. Interviewers will be able leverage this book to make sure they hire candidates with the right competencies to meet the role requirements.

What you will learn

  • Learn about IT strategies, NFR, methodologies, best practices, and frameworks to ace your interview
  • Get a holistic view of key concepts, design principles, and patterns related to evangelizing web and Java enterprise applications
  • Discover interview preparation guidelines through case studies
  • Use this as a reference guide for adopting best practices, standards, and design guidelines
  • Get a better understanding with 60+ diagrams depicting various scenarios, models, and methodologies
  • Benefit from coverage of all architecture domains including EA (Business, Data, Infrastructure, and Application), SA, integration, NFRs, security, and SOA, with extended coverage from IT strategies to the NFR domain

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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
1. Architect Roles and Growth Paths Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. IT Strategy and Advisory Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Enterprise Architecture and Modernization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. SOA and Integration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Solution Architecture and Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Emerging Technologies Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Methodologies, Frameworks, and NFRs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Interview Preparation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Yogesh Karekar Mar 27, 2017
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This book is an excellent reference for IT architecture practitioners, which covers all architecture domains including Enterprise Architecture (Business, Data, Infrastructure and Application), Solution Architecture, Integration, Non-Functional Requirements, Security and SOA. I believe this book will be helpful for designers, consultants, technical, solution, domain, enterprise lead and chief architects to become competent in their respective areas. Interviewers can also leverage this book to make sure they hire candidate with the right competencies depending on the job requirements. Practitioners with right set of tools and methods can use the reference guide to deliver on their architecture engagements.
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Sunil Patil Mar 15, 2017
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A great reference for aspiring and practicing architects ! The coverage is extensive in terms of depth and breadth of a domains. The book has close to 12 domains and 500+ questions covering various domains. A deep study of this reference artefact should equip the aspiring architects. Extended coverage from IT Strategy to NFRs domains. The book is an honest attempt to share with practitioners, the experiences, learning, insights and proven methodologies to benefit them in the long run. The questions have a probability indicator for all questions. Probability indicator depicts the likely hood of the questions or topic coming up in the discussion.
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Jatinder Singh Feb 05, 2017
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This book is aimed at a person who is thinking of advancing a career in IT architecture, or perhaps for the beginners who are wondering about what it would take to being an architect. This book will take you from the very basic questions, like "What does an architect do?" and "Is architecture for me?", to questions of different paths and classes that are part of an architecture education, to how to pursue a career in architecture. Peppered throughout the book are interview Q&As across multiple domains . I think these are very helpful, because you get a personal experience and opinion from someone who has gone through the process and become successful in the field.
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The book steers the reader fluently through multiple domains with intensive treatment.The questions have been associated with probability indicators; those clarify the likelihood of the questions or topics emerging during the technical discussions.There is a section on advisory domain; this is a sparse avail, which is distilled through years of industry experience.I definitely recommend this book to the architecture professionals who are consolidating their expertise for seeking better prospects.
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A very good book for techniques related to analysis and architecting software systems. It has good references related to various architecture & strategy engagements. Lot of questions related to different domains like cloud, mobile etc. A good reference book for all the architects
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