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Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Governance Questions

Understand and apply enterprise architecture frameworks and governance models to drive consistent technology decisions across an organization. Topics include architecture frameworks such as the Open Group Architecture Framework and ArchiMate, the role and processes of architecture review boards, standards and reference architectures, technology road mapping, principles driven design, and governance structures that balance innovation with standardization. Be prepared to design governance processes for architecture approvals, explain escalation and exception handling, and show how to measure and evolve architecture practices over time.

EasyTechnical
46 practiced
Explain the role of an architecture repository or knowledge base in enterprise cloud governance. What artifacts and metadata should be stored, how should access/versioning be handled, and how does the repository support automated governance and audits?
EasyTechnical
57 practiced
Describe how enterprise architecture frameworks and governance should align with organizational strategy and culture during a cloud transformation. Provide a short plan of steps you would take to ensure alignment with senior leadership, product teams, and operations.
HardTechnical
42 practiced
Propose a method to quantify the business value of architecture governance decisions. Provide specific metrics and data sources to estimate cost avoidance, risk reduction (probability x impact), time-to-market improvements, and how you would present those results to the CFO and CTO with a simple example calculation.
HardSystem Design
57 practiced
Explain how to integrate architecture governance with cloud cost governance and FinOps. Provide concrete processes for approving new services with cost impact, enforcing tagging policies, pre-deployment cost estimation, budgeting, and continuous cost monitoring tied to architecture decisions.
HardTechnical
43 practiced
Design an architecture review scoring model that quantitatively assesses proposed designs across security, reliability, cost, performance, and operability. Define a scoring formula, weightings for typical enterprise priorities, thresholds that trigger automatic approval versus manual review, and how you would evolve the model after observing outcomes.

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