21⟩ Do you consider yourself successful person?
You should always answer yes and briefly explain why. A good explanation is that you have set goals, and you have met some and are on track to achieve the others.
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22⟩ Do you know what Is Load Balancing?
Load balancing is simple technique for distributing workloads across multiple machines or clusters.
The most common and simple load balancing algorithm is Round Robin. In this type of load balancing the request is divided in circular order ensuring all machines get equal number of requests and no single machine is overloaded or underloaded.
23⟩ Explain us what position do you prefer on a team working on a project?
Be honest. If you are comfortable in different roles, point that out.
24⟩ Tell us what motivates you to do your best on job?
This is a personal trait that only you can say, but good examples are: Challenge, Achievement, Recognition
25⟩ Tell me what is ITIL?
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of best practices for IT service management, development and operations.
ITIL gives detailed descriptions of a number of important IT concepts and includes checklists, tasks and procedures that can be tailored for any enterprise.
☛ Some major areas ITIL covers are:
☛ Service Support
☛ Service Delivery
☛ ICT Infrastructure Management
☛ Security Management
☛ Application Management
☛ Software Asset Management
In the Service Support area ITIL covers processes such as Service Desk, Incident and Problem Management, Change Management, Release and Configuration Management.
26⟩ Explain why do you think you would do well at this job?
Give several reasons and include skills, experience and interest.
27⟩ Tell me what are SOA patterns?
SOA design patterns are reusable solutions to a commonly occurring SOA design problems.
Some common SOA patterns include:
Enterprise Service Bus - A tool that fosters service communication by providing reliable messaging, message queuing, data transformations and service broker functionality.
File Gateway - A file gateway is placed between a service and legacy flat file. The gateway acts as a mediator and can perform data transformations.
Event Driven Messaging - The service notifies its consumers of relevant events with messages.
Service Callback - A service requires that consumers communicate with it asynchronously. Consumers provide a callback address to which the service can send response messages.
28⟩ Tell us are you willing to work overtime? Nights? Weekends?
This is up to you. Be totally honest.
29⟩ Explain me who do you manage?
If this applies to your situation describe the staff that you supervise and their roles. An effective way to communicate this is to describe a “typical day” for you on how you manage others.
30⟩ Tell me have you ever had to fire anyone? Then how did you feel about that?
This is serious. Do not make light of it or in any way seem like you like to fire people. At the same time, you will do it when it is the right thing to do. When it comes to the organization versus the individual who has created a harmful situation, you will protect the organization. Remember firing is not the same as layoff or reduction in force.
31⟩ Explain me about your dream job?
Stay away from a specific job. You cannot win. If you say the job you are contending for is it, you strain credibility. If you say another job is it, you plant the suspicion that you will be dissatisfied with this position if hired. The best is to stay genetic and say something like: A job where I love the work, like the people, can contribute and can’t wait to get to work.
32⟩ Tell me what Is Scalability?
Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of load by adding more resources. The adding of resource can be done in two ways
☛ Scaling Up
This involves adding more resources to the existing nodes. For example, adding more RAM, Storage or processing power.
☛ Scaling Out
This involves adding more nodes to support more users.
Any of the approaches can be used for scaling up/out a application, however the cost of adding resources (per user) may change as the volume increases. If we add resources to the system It should increase the ability of application to take more load in a proportional manner of added resources.
An ideal application should be able to serve high level of load in less resources. However, in practical, linearly scalable system may be the best option achievable.
Poorly designed applications may have really high cost on scaling up/out since it will require more resources/user as the load increases.
33⟩ Tell me what is an Enterprise Architecture Roadmap? What kind of information does it contain?
An EA Roadmap describes a current and target architecture and a transition plan to achieve the target state.
An EA Roadmap should include the business, application, data and technical architecture for each state.
The Roadmap lists the projects required to implement the proposed architecture. This should include project prioritization, risks and issues, migration strategy, estimated costs, success factors and project measurements.
34⟩ Please explain me what do you know about this organization?
This question is one reason to do some research on the organization before the interview. Find out where they have been and where they are going. What are the current issues and who are the major players?
35⟩ Please explain would you be willing to relocate if required?
You should be clear on this with your family prior to the interview if you think there is a chance it may come up. Do not say yes just to get the job if the real answer is no. This can create a lot of problems later on in your career. Be honest at this point and save yourself future grief.
36⟩ Explain me what is the value of Enterprise Architecture?
Enterprise Architecture is a strategic information asset to be used to shape the Enterprise.
It is key to understanding the current investment in IT and efficiently planning and directing future IT investments.
Enterprise Architecture is a tool for identifying opportunities to improve key Enterprise metrics related to things like operational efficiency, IT costs and customer satisfaction.
Enterprise Architecture helps achieve enterprise alignment, manage change, and reduce time-to-market.
37⟩ Tell me what kind of salary do you need as Professional Architect?
A loaded question. A nasty little game that you will probably lose if you answer first. So, do not answer it. Instead, say something like, That’s a tough question. Can you tell me the range for this position? In most cases, the interviewer, taken off guard, will tell you. If not, say that it can depend on the details of the job. Then give a wide range.
38⟩ Tell me do you have any other offers? / Are you interviewing anywhere else?
A lot of architects see this as an opportunity to brag about how many job offers they have. First of all, this should be obvious but the number one rule in an interview is: DO NOT LIE.
If you have other job offers, that is fine go ahead and say so. If not, don’t try to leverage your situation. I will discuss a good answer and justification for both responses.
39⟩ Tell me are you licensed? Do you plan to be? If so, when?
Most firms like to see as large a percentage as possible of licensed staff. This can help to give clients confidence in the quality of work.
Do not complain about the cost or amount of work it takes to becoming licensed. Projecting laziness is not a desirable trait for new staff.
40⟩ Tell me how Would You Describe Your Role in Your Last Team Project?
A successful building project requires coordination with a diverse team. The potential employer is interested in knowing how capable you are of working with others and whether you are likely to recognize their accomplishments or blame them for a project’s problems. Most questions invite you to brag a little about your skills and accomplishments, but your response to this question should emphasize the role of others on your team. Describe your responsibilities and demonstrate how the team worked together to achieve your common goal. It’s ok to admit that a team member may have been difficult, and this can give you the opportunity to describe how you handle conflict, but your overall response should be positive and show that you understand that you did not achieve success completely on your own.
