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Architect Interview Questions

Architects design structures ranging from skyscrapers to community parks as they exercise creativity, analytical engineering, and technology skills. The job market for an architect is competitive. During your interview, you'll want to demonstrate high-level design thinking and an enthusiasm for collaboration with many types of project stakeholders.

Top Architect Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question 1: How would you deal with a difficult client?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question allows you to showcase your ability to solve problems and work through difficulties to accomplish a task. Discuss how you used your communication and interpersonal skills to work with the client to complete the job. Provide examples from your personal experience as an architect when possible.
Question 2

Question 2: What computer-aided design software are you familiar with, and how have you used it?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question lets you share your breadth of knowledge on computer-aided design (CAD) programs to construct 3D modeling. Ideally, you're well-versed in the CAD program that the company uses and can speak to how you've used it for projects in the past. If you're familiar with more than one, you can discuss the differences and point out the benefits and drawbacks of each program. If you're only familiar with one, speak to your level of specialized knowledge specific to that program.
Question 3

Question 3: What was one of your favorite projects, and why?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question allows you to share your favorite project and demonstrate your passion for your work as an architect. Discuss the project from start to finish, focusing on the aspects that made it one of your favorites. You should be able to describe your project clearly, along with the strategies you used and the reasons behind your architectural decisions.

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Please draw on the white board a hybrid solutions for an enterprise customer that needs to store files online in a private cloud with 99.95% SLA and specify which AWS component you will need to use and details about security, access control etc
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Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Mar 14, 2017

Please draw on the white board a hybrid solutions for an enterprise customer that needs to store files online in a private cloud with 99.95% SLA and specify which AWS component you will need to use and details about security, access control etc

I didn't feel much difficulty in answering their questions. Probably this is my first company where i have answered all questions with confidence in which i didn't select. It is a big surprise and unfortunately they won't reveal the reasons for not shortlisting... Questions are similar what have posted in this website. Just look at the AWS case studies. Their questions covers 40% of their case studies. You don't need AWS knowledge. But you need to answer how cloud works and best practices in deploying web applications for higher scalability, performance and network latency point of view. If you didn't worked on AWS then tell them upfront your strengths. They didn't ask me any AWS products as i didn't work on it. But they have asked me all cloud questions in which i worked for(VMWare/Azure/Rackspace/etc).
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Solution Architect - AWS

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Dec 25, 2015

I didn't feel much difficulty in answering their questions. Probably this is my first company where i have answered all questions with confidence in which i didn't select. It is a big surprise and unfortunately they won't reveal the reasons for not shortlisting... Questions are similar what have posted in this website. Just look at the AWS case studies. Their questions covers 40% of their case studies. You don't need AWS knowledge. But you need to answer how cloud works and best practices in deploying web applications for higher scalability, performance and network latency point of view. If you didn't worked on AWS then tell them upfront your strengths. They didn't ask me any AWS products as i didn't work on it. But they have asked me all cloud questions in which i worked for(VMWare/Azure/Rackspace/etc).

Imagine that you meet with a small startup company in the early stages of their operations. Currently their architecture uses a LAMP stack with MySQL, Apache and PHP all running on one desktop PC within their small office. Like many small start-ups they are confident that they will be the next big thing and expect significant, rapid, yet un-quantified growth in the next few months. Recommend a manageable, secure, scalable, high performance, efficient, elastic, highly available, fault tolerant and recoverable architecture that allows the startup to organically grow. The architecture should specifically address the requirements/concerns as described above.
Mar 7, 2018

Imagine that you meet with a small startup company in the early stages of their operations. Currently their architecture uses a LAMP stack with MySQL, Apache and PHP all running on one desktop PC within their small office. Like many small start-ups they are confident that they will be the next big thing and expect significant, rapid, yet un-quantified growth in the next few months. Recommend a manageable, secure, scalable, high performance, efficient, elastic, highly available, fault tolerant and recoverable architecture that allows the startup to organically grow. The architecture should specifically address the requirements/concerns as described above.

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