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Web Architect Mock Interview

To help you prepare for your Web Architect interview, here are 30 interview questions and answer examples.

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How would you describe the difference between a web architect and a web developer?

The terms web architect and web developer are often used interchangeably. However, each job has distinct duties and responsibilities. The interviewer will ask this question to determine if you are aware of these and can clearly define each role. This is important since professionals performing each of these jobs need to collaborate in order to produce an effective and efficient website.

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30 Web Architect Interview Questions & Answers

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  • General

    1. How would you describe the difference between a web architect and a web developer?

  • Operational

    2. How does CORS work?

  • Operational

    3. What is Javascript prototyping, and how do you incorporate it into your web design plans?

  • Operational

    4. What are some of the tools do you use to architect a website?

  • Operational

    5. How do you use a Traffic Manager, and how does this differ from a load balancer?

  • Operational

    6. Please tell me about how you address disaster recovery in your web designs.

  • Operational

    7. Can you describe common web security attacks and how your web designs protect against them?

  • Operational

    8. Do you use Domain-Driven Design when architecting a website? Can you describe what this is?

  • Technical

    9. What is meant by lower latency interactions?

  • Technical

    10. Can you describe what SOLID stands for in the context of web architecture and discuss some of its principles?

  • Technical

    11. What is scalability?

  • Technical

    12. What is a cluster? Why do you need clustering?

  • Technical

    13. What is HTTP session replication?

  • Technical

    14. Please describe the ACID properties of a database used in web architecture.

  • Technical

    15. What is the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), and how do you use this in your designs?

  • Technical

    16. What are some of the differences between a binary semaphore and a mutex?

  • Technical

    17. What is sticky session load balancing, and how does this relate to the concept of session affinity?

  • Technical

    18. What are some of the issues related to a sticky session?

  • Technical

    19. Can you describe a microservice architecture and discuss its advantages?

  • Technical

    20. Does serialization break singleton property in Java?

  • Technical

    21. What is a clustered index?

  • Technical

    22. Please describe a tech stack and discuss what it is used for.

  • Technical

    23. Can you tell me what an XML market data service is and how it interacts with outside entities?

  • Technical

    24. Please discuss the pros and cons of REST vs. SOAP.

  • Technical

    25. Can you explain how OAuth works?

  • Technical

    26. Please discuss the difference as well as pros and cons of compiled vs. interpreted languages.

  • Technical

    27. Which do you prefer, SOAP or JMS?

  • Technical

    28. What is an API gateway?

  • Technical

    29. Can you compare WebAPI vs. Microservices?

  • Technical

    30. Please discuss eventual consistency.