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Please define architectural risk and discuss how you mitigate it if hired by Cisco.

As a computer hardware engineer, you're expected to design reliable systems that work as specified. It is very costly to remediate errors once the systems are in the field. The Cisco interviewer will ask you about the concept of architecture risk to learn how you go about doing this and ensure that you make an effort to design effective systems and ones that are reliable and will work under a variety of different conditions. When you answer this question, you may want a discuss how you addressed this in your previous designs.

"Architectural risk addresses the issue that the design may fail to meet the requirements of a project. These failures can include poor quality, ineffective performance, and a tendency to fail frequently. The best way to mitigate architectural risks is to carefully review the design elements with the Cisco project stakeholders before building a system. Also, it is critical to review each stage of the design, and identify and correct any errors before they impact other parts of the system, and adhere to standard industry practices."

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