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Whiteboard Exercises

Architecture drawing exercises for interviews and design reviews.

Objective: Explain system boundaries, flows and failure behaviour visually.

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Required views

01

Context diagram

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02

Logical architecture

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03

Identity and trust flows

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04

Operations and recovery path

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Quality checks

01

Label boundaries

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02

Show dependencies

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03

Mark failure domains

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04

State assumptions

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Exercises

01

Enterprise landing zone

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02

Secure software supply chain

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03

Highly available application platform

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04

Self-service developer platform

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