Tech Talk – Enterprise Architect[Architect - 2]

Architect’s Role Vision Negotiations Above & Beyond Technology

Architect’s Involvement Analyze Define non-functional Requirements Identify Infrastructure Validate Project Plan & Estimates Identify & validate module & sub-modules Define overall technical architecture Identify application component, services,

and technologies Prototype to support end-to-end testing

Responsibility Technical Management Governance General

Technical Responsibility Quality Requirements Identification of Significant use cases

Concurrency Performance Legacy Integration

Recommendation of technology & frameworks

Develop / Guide team for initial prototype

Management Responsibility Understand & Manage cost Communication

Refine & clarify requirements Convince stakeholders on validity of

decision made Mentor project team members

Governance Responsibility Ensure compliance with defined

architecture Consistent business rule

implementation

General Responsibility Understand working practices and skills

of working staff Understand architecture impact on

team & logical advocate of technical decisions

Ensure that product stay true to the architecture

Question[1] QoS is primary focus of Architect. Which of

following is NOT a critical NFR that can affect user’s satisfaction and acceptance of System Page loads and refresh occur in less than 1

second at nominal load Page must include inline validation for form

fields Database table cannot exceed 2 GB in size The Oracle 11g customer database must be

used for the project.

Question[2] Identify the changes in requirements that

led to the need for role of an architect. For systems to scale For systems to have better UI design For systems to have security designed in

upfront For systems to move from client-server to

highly distributed For systems to have fast database

connectivity