Key Features
- A reference guide for seasoned and aspiring practitioner to guide them during the interview discussions
- Model for the interview panel for selecting architects for their practice/units while bringing in standardization in the selection process.
- Helping architecture practitioner on various architecture, design & strategy engagements
Book Description
An architect attends several interviews for jobs or projects during his or her entire career. There is always a dire need to look up and read multiple books and references before these interviews / discussions so that you stay on top of things. This artifact will assist the designers, consultants, technical, solution, domain, enterprise lead and chief architects to perform well in their interview discussions and to launch a successful career. This book also tackles the NFR domain which is the key aspect to be addressed while architecting applications.
Usually, it takes years to understand the core concepts, fundamentals, patterns, and principles related to architecture and designs, but this book is a gold mine for the typical questions asked during an interview.
The book begins by giving you a description of architecture skills and competencies. We will provide you with 12 important domains and around 500 questions covering these domains. From an architect's perspective, it is not possible to revise or learn all these key areas without a good reference artifact. The goal of this title is to cover all the core architectural domains. This artifact will assist the solution, domain and enterprise architects to perform well in their interview discussions and to launch a successful career. The book is an honest attempt to share with practitioners, SMEs, and aspirants my experiences, learning, insights and proven methodologies that will benefit you in the long run.
This book will also help you tackle the NFR domain, which is a key aspect of architecting applications. It also includes a probability indictor for each of the questions to indicate the probability of this being asked during your discussion.
What you will learn
- Learn about Enterprise Architects IT strategy and NFR, methodologies, best practices, and frameworks to ace your interview
- Get a holistic view of key concepts, design principles, and patterns related to evangelizing web and Java enterprise applications
- Explore more than 500 questions in 12 domains including a chapter on emerging technologies - SMAC (social, mobile analytics and cloud).
- Discover interview preparation guidelines through case studies
- Reference guide for adopting best practices, standards and design guidelines
- Get a better understanding with 100+ diagrams depicting various scenarios, models, and methodologies
- Coverage of all architecture domains including EA (Business, Data, Infrastructure and Application), SA, Integration, NFRs and Security and SOA. with extended coverage from IT Strategy to NFRs domains.
Sameer Paradkar is an enterprise architect with 15+ years of solid experience in the ICT industry which spans across consulting, systems integration, and product development. He is an Open Group TOGAF, Oracle Master Java EA, TMForum NGOSS, IBM SOA Solutions, IBM Cloud Solutions, IBM MobileFirst, ITIL Foundation V3 and COBIT 5 certified enterprise architect. He serves as an advisory architect on enterprise architecture programs and continues to work as a subject matter expert. He has worked on multiple architecture transformations and modernization engagements in the USA, UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East Regions that presented a phased roadmap to the transformation that maximized the business value while minimizing risks and costs. Sameer is part of IT Strategy and Transformation Practice in AtoS. Prior to AtoS, he has worked in organizations such as EY - IT Advisory, IBM GBS, Wipro Consulting Services, TechMahindra, and Infosys Technologies and specializes in IT strategies and enterprise transformation engagements.
