Cracking The It Architect Interview
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Cracking the IT Architect Interview
Author: Sameer Paradkar
language: en
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Release Date: 2016-11-30
The ultimate guide to successful interviews for Enterprise, Business, Domain, Solution, and Technical Architect roles as well as IT Advisory Consultant and Software Designer roles About This Book Learn about Enterprise Architects IT strategy and NFR – this book provides you with methodologies, best practices, and frameworks to ace your interview A holistic view of key architectural skills and competencies with 500+ questions that cover 12 domains 100+ diagrams depicting scenarios, models, and methodologies designed to help you prepare for your interview Who This Book Is For This book is for aspiring enterprise, business, domain, solution, and technical architects. It is also ideal for IT advisory consultants and IT designers who wish to interview for such a role. Interviewers will be able leverage this book to make sure they hire candidates with the right competencies to meet the role requirements. What You Will Learn Learn about IT strategies, 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 Discover interview preparation guidelines through case studies Use this as a reference guide for adopting best practices, standards, and design guidelines Get a better understanding with 60+ diagrams depicting various scenarios, models, and methodologies Benefit from coverage of all architecture domains including EA (Business, Data, Infrastructure, and Application), SA, integration, NFRs, security, and SOA, with extended coverage from IT strategies to the NFR domain In Detail An architect attends multiple interviews for jobs or projects during the course of his or her career. This book is an interview resource created for designers, consultants, technical, solution, domain, enterprise, and chief architects to help them perform well in interview discussions and launch a successful career. The book begins by providing descriptions of architecture skills and competencies that cover the 12 key domains, including 350+ questions relating to these domains. The goal of this book is to cover all the core architectural domains. From an architect's perspective, it is impossible to revise or learn about all these key areas without a good reference guide – this book is the solution. It shares experiences, learning, insights, and proven methodologies that will benefit practitioners, SMEs, and aspirants in the long run. This book will help you tackle the NFR domain, which is a key aspect pertaining to architecting applications. It typically takes years to understand the core concepts, fundamentals, patterns, and principles related to architecture and designs. This book is a goldmine for the typical questions asked during an interview and will help prepare you for success! Style and approach This book will help you prepare for interviews for architectural profiles by providing likely questions, explanations, and expected answers. It is an insight-rich guide that will help you develop strategic, tactical, and operational thinking for your interview.
Cracking Microservices Interview
Gold mine of microservices interview Questions & Answers for aspirants and domain experts. DESCRIPTION An SME typically attends several interviews and discussions for jobs or projects during his or her 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 book will assist software engineers, programmer analysts, designers, consultants, technical, and solution, domain, and enterprise architects to perform well in microservices interview discussions and to launch a successful career. This book also tackles the NFR domain, which is the key aspect to be addressed while creating microservices applications. This book will also assist SMEs to become competent in their respective areas. Usually, it takes a good amount of time to understand the core concepts, fundamentals, patterns, and principles but this book is a gold mine of topics that are typically discussed during a microservices interview. The book is an honest attempt to share with practitioners, SMEs, and aspirants my experiences, learning, insights and proven methodologies that will benefit them in the long run. Interviewers will also be able to leverage this book to make sure they hire candidates with the right competencies depending on the job requirements. The primary audiences for this title are the gamut of roles starting from IT consultants, Programmer Analysts, Software Engineers, Solution Architects, and Interview Panelists who support strategic and tactical engagements for Fortune 100 customers worldwide. This title is for SMEs with background and competencies in architecture, design, and development of microservices-based applications and people who would like to gain advanced and next-level skills. The book provides a comprehensive approach for preparing for job interviews. It covers all key domains including, Core & Advance Concepts, Patterns, Frameworks & Tools, and DevOps. KEY FEATURES ● More than 200 questions in 5 domains including a chapter on patterns, practices, and NFRs. ● Extended coverage from architecture, design, development to NFRs domains. ● The book can be selectively read based on the relevant domains. ● Extensive coverage in terms of depth and breadth of domains. ● The title has more than 50 diagrams depicting various scenarios, models, and methodologies. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN ● Concepts, principles, and guidelines for various domains for the microservices ecosystem. ● This book presents an exhaustive question bank with special emphasis on practical scenarios and business cases. ● Based on our experience, we assure that at least 80% of the contents will be discussed during a typical interview. ● Common pitfalls to be avoided and patterns to leverage ● Frameworks, methodologies, and design approach leveraged for microservices topologies ● Design guidelines used for architecting microservices applications & systems ● Provides a holistic view of key concepts, design principles, and patterns related to evangelizing microservices applications ● Leverage the book as a reference guide for adopting best practices, standards, and design guidelines ● Extensive coverage in terms of depth and breadth of domains. The book can also be read selectively as per the choice of domain. ● This book has more than two hundred questions in five domains and around 50 depictions. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This books is for Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, and Technical Architects/Designers, Project Managers, Programmer Analysts and Software Engineers, Students and Interview Panelists TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Core Concepts 3. Advance Concepts 4. Patterns, Practices and NFRs 5. Tools and Frameworks 6. DevOps
Cracking Digital VLSI Verification Interview
How should I prepare for a Digital VLSI Verification Interview? What all topics do I need to know before I turn up for an interview? What all concepts do I need to brush up? What all resources do I have at my disposal for preparation? What does an Interviewer expect in an Interview? These are few questions almost all individuals ponder upon before an interview. If you have these questions in your mind, your search ends here as keeping these questions in their minds, authors have written this book that will act as a golden reference for candidates preparing for Digital VLSI Verification Interviews. Aim of this book is to enable the readers practice and grasp important concepts that are applicable to Digital VLSI Verification domain (and Interviews) through Question and Answer approach. To achieve this aim, authors have not restricted themselves just to the answer. While answering the questions in this book, authors have taken utmost care to explain underlying fundamentals and concepts. This book consists of 500+ questions covering wide range of topics that test fundamental concepts through problem statements (a common interview practice which the authors have seen over last several years). These questions and problem statements are spread across nine chapters and each chapter consists of questions to help readers brush-up, test, and hone fundamental concepts that form basis of Digital VLSI Verification. The scope of this book however, goes beyond technical concepts. Behavioral skills also form a critical part of working culture of any company. Hence, this book consists of a section that lists down behavioral interview questions as well. Topics covered in this book:1. Digital Logic Design (Number Systems, Gates, Combinational, Sequential Circuits, State Machines, and other Design problems)2. Computer Architecture (Processor Architecture, Caches, Memory Systems)3. Programming (Basics, OOP, UNIX/Linux, C/C++, Perl)4. Hardware Description Languages (Verilog, SystemVerilog)5. Fundamentals of Verification (Verification Basics, Strategies, and Thinking problems)6. Verification Methodologies (UVM, Formal, Power, Clocking, Coverage, Assertions)7. Version Control Systems (CVS, GIT, SVN)8. Logical Reasoning/Puzzles (Related to Digital Logic, General Reasoning, Lateral Thinking)9. Non Technical and Behavioral Questions (Most commonly asked)In addition to technical and behavioral part, this book touches upon a typical interview process and gives a glimpse of latest interview trends. It also lists some general tips and Best-Known-Methods to enable the readers follow correct preparation approach from day-1 of their preparations. Knowing what an Interviewer looks for in an interviewee is always an icing on the cake as it helps a person prepare accordingly. Hence, authors of this book spoke to few leaders in the semiconductor industry and asked their personal views on "What do they look for while Interviewing candidates and how do they usually arrive at a decision if a candidate should be hired?". These leaders have been working in the industry from many-many years now and they have interviewed lots of candidates over past several years. Hear directly from these leaders as to what they look for in candidates before hiring them. Enjoy reading this book. Authors are open to your feedback. Please do provide your valuable comments, ratings, and reviews.