Solutions Architect Interview Questions
Go Back1. Give an example where you worked in collaboration with other departments on solution architecture to shape up a project? What went well? What went wrong?
2. Do you prefer to create programs aligned with interfaces or implementations, and why?
3. What is your strategy for securing the IT assets and intellectual property of an organization?
4. How do you ensure that the software you develop will scale?
5. How would you describe Amazon Web Services (AWS) to someone outside of the IT organization?
6. Please discuss some of the differences between asynchronous and parallel programming?
7. Can you explain CAP Theorem?
8. What do you believe your role is concerning supporting the organization's functional analysts?
9. What is a lower latency interaction, and why is it desirable in an application?
10. Please explain domain-driven design.
11. What are the benefits of clustering?
12. Can you describe a creative solution to a challenging problem you developed in your role as a solutions architect? (Begin Here)
13. Please talk about a time when you analyzed a difficult problem and came up with an innovative solution.
14. Do you subscribe to the theory of 'Fail Early and Fail Forward?'
15. How do you define high availability, and what are some steps you take to ensure this?
16. What are some of the steps you recommend to protect an organization from a DOS attack?
17. What are the advantages of using a NoSQL database instead of an RDBMS?
18. Give an example of where you used an architecture framework. What characteristics were helpful, and what characteristics were not helpful?
19. Describe how your training and experience have prepared you to succeed as a Solutions Architect.
20. Can you describe a key project you recently led as a solutions architect?
21. Are there any issues with employing sticky sessions in your systems architecture?
22. How are DRY and DIE principles used in software engineering?
23. Can you define the acronym SOLID and discuss its key principles?
24. What does system resiliency refer to, and how do you achieve this?
25. What does the acronym ACID stand for?
26. Please discuss the concept of Elasticity as used in your role as a solutions architect and how it contrasts with scalability.
27. Can you describe some of the differences between concurrency and parallelism?
28. What are monolithic, SOA and microservices architectures, and how do they differ from one another?
29. When would you use a NoSQL database, and when would using a relational database be better?
30. What Do You Mean By "Session Affinity, and how does this relate to the concept of sticky session load balancing?
31. What are the differences between a binary and mutex semaphore?
32. What is meant by the Single Responsibility Principle, and how do you use this in your work?
33. How is the term Deadlock used in your role as a solutions architect?