Solutions Architect Interview Questions

Anonymous Flamingo - "One challenge that I faced when working with sales was managing unrealistic expectations. As a developer, I often had to work with sales teams to define the scope and timeline for projects. However, it was not uncommon for the sales team to promise clients certain features or deliverables that were not feasible within the allotted time and budget. To address this challenge, I learned to be proactive in clarifying the limitations and constraints of the project with the sales team, and to work wit"See full answer

Kanika - "https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-happens-when-you-hit-url-in-your-browser/"See full answer

Cristian A. - "I have this approach of: 30% seniors, to help the semi senior to grow. 30% to 35% semi seniors, to help the jr to grow. 37% to 40% jr or software engineers. With this approach and can foster a culture of grow but also be prepared to rotation of the team. And if you have to add more people, the onboarding is more simple."See full answer

Marcos P. - "Your approach was illuminating for sure, particularly the use of frameworks for stories."See full answer

Nikunj V. - "OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) are two types of data processing systems, each designed for specific purposes in the context of database and data warehouse environments. OLTP (Online Transaction Processing):Purpose: OLTP systems are designed to manage and handle high volumes of transactions, such as inserting, updating, and deleting data. These systems are typically used in day-to-day business operations. Characteristics: Handles small, si"See full answer

Tej prakash V. - "DNS is a service for resolving hostname and provide fully qualified domain name of the host."See full answer

T I. - "Idempotence refers to the property that the same request multiple times produces the same result on the server side. No matter how many times I repeat the request, the server state does not change after the first request. This concept is important to ensure consistency, especially in systems where requests may be repeated due to network failures or other problems. Let's take a look at different HTTP methods for a clearer understanding. GET: By definition, GET requests must be powerless. Execut"See full answer

Onesimo F. - "N/A. I never had the same experience."See full answer

T I. - "This is due to sticky sessions. The load balancer is not correctly configured with sticky session option. It is likely the servers were storing session data on the server themselves (in-memory), and thus when user makes a request, the load balancer routes this to a different server than the one they started with, that second server may not recognise the user's session. This could prompt the user to log in again. One way to resolve this, is to use a centralised session storage, something like"See full answer

Ali H. - "CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) -- also known as supernetting -- is a method of assigning Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that improves the efficiency of address distribution and replaces the previous system based on Class A, Class B and Class C networks."See full answer

Gopal R. - "Stateful Firewall Tracks the state of active network connections (TCP, UDP, etc.) and makes decisions based on both rules and connection state (e.g., established sessions). Stateless Firewall Makes decisions based only on packet header information (source IP, destination IP, port, protocol) without tracking connection states."See full answer

Anonymous Narwhal - "Ability for system to keep in service without much degradation in SLA or adding significant latency."See full answer

Archna M. - "Caching is a strategy to have the frequently accessed data in the memory to reduce the latency. whenever a client request the data from server, it is first accessed into cache and if not available then it is getting fetched from the storage and stored into cache. As cache is having limited memory, so amount of data can be stored in cache is less. Data will be flushed out from cache based on a criteria which is termed as caching strategy. There could be different mechanisms under which a data can"See full answer

Madhini G. - "Use sticky sessions in loadbalancer to save the user sessions. In case of DB, use Redis cache to maintain user sessions"See full answer