Understanding the Company's Infrastructure Context Questions
Research the company's public infrastructure information (engineering blog, tech talks, published case studies, job description). Understand what systems they operate at scale, what problems they likely face, and what your role would contribute to.
EasyTechnical
22 practiced
Which organizational signals visible in public materials, such as team names in blog posts, open roles across locations, or conference talks, indicate whether a company separates platform engineering, SRE, and application teams? Explain how each signal would influence your solution recommendations and where you might recommend organizational changes.
HardTechnical
21 practiced
Based on public materials indicating they are growing quickly, propose a 9 week transformation roadmap a Solutions Architect would recommend to modernize a platform. Break the roadmap into phases by week, include milestones, quick wins, risk mitigations, stakeholder owners, and measurable outcomes you will use to prove progress.
EasyTechnical
25 practiced
You read a case study claiming moving from on premise to cloud cut deployment time in half. As a Solutions Architect, which architectural components, automation practices, and organizational changes would you expect to see behind that claim? Which items would you probe in a discovery to validate the case study's claims?
EasyTechnical
22 practiced
You inspect the company's public GitHub and find Helm charts, Terraform modules, and a small end to end test harness. As a Solutions Architect, what operational practices and deployment patterns can you infer from these artifacts, and what specific follow up questions would you prepare for an initial call to validate your inferences?
HardTechnical
36 practiced
You need to influence the client's long term platform strategy based on public research. As a senior Solutions Architect, evaluate three strategic options: full cloud migration, hybrid platform with edge compute, and a multi cloud best of breed approach. For each option evaluate long term TCO, talent and operational requirements, vendor risk and lock in, performance characteristics and recommended scenarios where each option is most appropriate.
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