Software architecture practice assessment. Advanced

Practice assessment: scenario judgement for architecture decisions. Not timed.

12 questions

Scenario: A 'platform' requires tickets for every change. Why is it not a real platform?

platforms

Scenario: You assume failure at scale. Which capability matters most?

resilience

Scenario: Architecture is decaying. What evidence would you look for first?

governance

A platform team proves value best by showing:

platforms

What makes an architecture review lightweight but defensible?

governance

Scenario: You can only improve one thing this quarter. What is most defensible?

resilience

Scenario: Teams want to bypass architecture review. What is the best redesign?

governance

Scenario: A platform team publishes internal APIs. What makes them safe to consume at scale?

platforms

Scenario: A region outage happens. What is the most credible preparedness evidence?

resilience

Scenario: An architecture is 'elegant' but expensive. What is the correct framing?

economics

Scenario: Exceptions to standards accumulate. What is the governance failure?

governance

Scenario: The architecture works only with manual ops. What is the best investment?

operations

Add CPD reflection (optional)

One short paragraph makes your CPD evidence much stronger.

Draft one ADR for a decision you have seen at work. Include constraints, trade-offs, and a review trigger.

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