Are you intending to interview architects? Personally I feel that even if somebody give you a checklist of cookie-cutter questions, what constitutes a good answer is going depend very heavily on your own experience and knowledge about architect and design philosophies. And it is experience that drives yourself to ask questions that you feel are important for architects, or whatever job position.
But at the end of the day, it is important to understand how they go about their architecture work, and what methods and design patterns they go by. And how they interact and communicate with developers who are suppose to carry out their architecture.
The melody of logic will always play out the truth. ~ Narumi Ayumu, Spiral
I am applying for Architect positions in .Net. I would like to know the job scope and also some site which is good to learn about design patterns and good application architecture practices.
Thanks
I do not know if there are really hard-line questions for architects. There isn't really anything "factual" about architecture, like "name all the page- level events that occur during an ASP.NET life cycle" or "How to resurrect dead-objects from the Garbage Collector's Freachable queue". It is based heavily on design and solutioning experience, which leads you to articulate to others why you are designing a solution in a particular manner to meet the requirements of the business/users.
Since I don't exactly have any true intention of working at the architect level (I want to be programming forever, designing applications at the program level), I never consider if architects can really fit into a "template" job scope. But the main gist is it takes plenty of design experience to tell what works for what requirements and situation, and what does not.
As a starting point, you can refer to Microsoft's pattern & practices section and delve in the architect journals. It helps to read the Martin Fowler signature series of enterprise application and integration patterns too.
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