IT Job Interview

Architect Questions

What are your considerations on business and technical aspects if you are asked to analyze a data consolidation project which brings enterprise data from multiple business functions and platforms to a centralized RDBMS?

If you cannot catch up all the information like this one, you may ask for repeating the question.  Try to grab the keywords when listening.  A long question may sound complicated, but if you can catch the key aspects, it shouldn’t be too hard.  The key to answer this question is to explain the purpose […]

What is Enterprise Modeling?

This question is to test your knowledge of BACHMAN methodology.  BACHMAN was quite popular in last decades.  Some old-timer architects like to ask this question to enterprise architect candidates.  If you are not familiar with how enterprise model was defined in BACHMAN, here is a brief answer:
Enterprise modeling contains Data Modeling, Process Modeling, and Logic […]

How Can the Process Modeling Features of a CASE Tool be Used?

Process modeling features are used to construct data-flow diagrams. In addition, state transition diagrams can also be used to represent the state of an entity and event objects.  Process hierarchy diagrams are also used to represent the flow of processes.

How Can CASE Tools Help Perform Business Strategy?

“CASE tools have features that allow efficient organization of economic, industrial, and business decision information matrices.  These matrices can be linked to system and give users a concise view as to the impact of their decisions and the amount of involvement and resources required to meet stated objectives.”

Please Describe What Functions a CASE Tool can Provide in the Systems Development Process?

They key to the answer is to mention CASE functions in all major phases of system development lifecycle:
A CASE tool usually provides functionalities to help us systematically move through the System
Development Lifecycle. Some of major functions include:
Business strategies
User requirements
System prototypes
Data model diagrams
Data flows
Construction
Testing
Quality assurance