Business Requirements and Technical Alignment Questions
Focuses on the candidate ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture and product decisions. Expect discussion of how market timing, customer needs, competitive positioning, cost and resource constraints influence technical trade offs. Candidates should demonstrate how to balance ideal technical designs with pragmatic business driven solutions, how to prioritize engineering work based on impact, and how to communicate trade offs to technical and non technical stakeholders.
HardTechnical
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Compare building a proprietary real-time telemetry protocol versus adopting established protocols like gRPC or MQTT for a product differentiator. Consider performance, ease of client adoption, interoperability, maintenance, and total cost of ownership. Recommend an approach for a startup wanting low-latency telemetry with broad device support.
MediumTechnical
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You must choose between Vendor A (single-region, low-cost) and Vendor B (multi-region, higher-cost) for a retail client expanding globally. Propose objective evaluation criteria (technical, operational, business) and recommend which vendor you would choose for an aggressive go-to-market plan focusing on rapid expansion.
EasyTechnical
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List common system integration patterns (synchronous API calls, asynchronous events, ETL/batch, shared DB) and provide guidance on when you would recommend each pattern to a customer who needs near-real-time inventory sync between legacy and cloud systems.
HardSystem Design
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Create a phased migration strategy to decompose a mission-critical monolithic e-commerce platform into microservices while preserving release cadence and minimizing customer impact. Outline phases, gating criteria for each phase, CI/CD changes, testing strategies, and rollback plans. Include how you would measure success.
EasyTechnical
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Explain the purpose of an Architecture Decision Record (ADR). As a Solutions Architect supporting sales, what sections would you include in an ADR to communicate a technology trade-off (e.g., managed DB vs self-hosted DB) to both technical and non-technical stakeholders?
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