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Architecture Design
Level I — Fundamentals — the questions get harder from here.
A customer asks you to design a highly available web application.
What do you do?
Deploy two servers behind a load balancer and call it done
Ask about availability targets, failure domains, RTO/RPO, and budget before drawing anything
Recommend the most redundant architecture you know
Copy the reference architecture from your last project
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