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Cloud Solution Architect's Career Master Plan

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805129714
Pages 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Rick Weyenberg Rick Weyenberg
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Rick Weyenberg, with over 25 years of professional development, design, and architecture experience, is an Azure principal cloud solution architect at Microsoft, where he leverages his expertise in cloud-based solution design and development to help companies harness the full power of the Azure cloud platform. His current mission is to help create smarter, safer cars and reliable autonomous vehicles by leading technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, enterprise architects, IT management, and engineers, and working with a wide variety of Azure services and platforms, ranging from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to serverless and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings.
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Kyle Burns Kyle Burns
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Kyle Burns is an application developer, architect, and technical leader with over 25 years of experience delivering business and technical capabilities to enhance customer and user experience and building and directing impactful software engineering teams. He effectively utilizes platforms and established methodologies to ensure that engineered solutions meet the requirements for security, scale, reuse, and high availability and collaborates across business units, with peers and leadership, to ensure objectives, goals, and standards are aligned. Kyle is recognized as an agile thought leader who articulates and communicates technical vision and translates that vision into business acumen and is currently a principal cloud solution architect in the Microsoft Customer Success organization.
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to the Cloud Solution Architect Role
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Responsibilities of a Cloud Solution Architect 3. Chapter 2: Types of Cloud Solution Architect Roles 4. Part 2: Pursuing the Role
5. Chapter 3: Education Paths to the Cloud Solution Architect Role 6. Chapter 4: Getting Real Experience 7. Chapter 5: Closing In on Opportunities 8. Part 3: Prepare for and After the Offer
9. Chapter 6: Time to Pursue the Job 10. Chapter 7: Interviewing – Trust the Process 11. Chapter 8: Don’t Forget to Give Back 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Interviewing – Trust the Process

Once you are ready to seek employment, interviewing as a process is straightforward. In this chapter, you will learn how to prepare for and ace an interview. You will also discover some common questions and scenarios that you might face in a cloud solution architect (CSA) interview and how to answer them effectively and confidently.

To help you achieve these objectives, this chapter will guide you through two main aspects of the interview preparation process: practicing and answering. In the first section, we will discuss why practicing is important, how to practice effectively, and which resources and tools you can use to enhance your learning and performance. In the second section, we will provide some examples of common questions and scenarios that you might encounter in a CSA interview and give you some tips on how to answer them.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to prepare for a CSA interview in a comprehensive and systematic...

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Profile icon Rick Weyenberg
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Rick Weyenberg, with over 25 years of professional development, design, and architecture experience, is an Azure principal cloud solution architect at Microsoft, where he leverages his expertise in cloud-based solution design and development to help companies harness the full power of the Azure cloud platform. His current mission is to help create smarter, safer cars and reliable autonomous vehicles by leading technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, enterprise architects, IT management, and engineers, and working with a wide variety of Azure services and platforms, ranging from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to serverless and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings.
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Kyle Burns is an application developer, architect, and technical leader with over 25 years of experience delivering business and technical capabilities to enhance customer and user experience and building and directing impactful software engineering teams. He effectively utilizes platforms and established methodologies to ensure that engineered solutions meet the requirements for security, scale, reuse, and high availability and collaborates across business units, with peers and leadership, to ensure objectives, goals, and standards are aligned. Kyle is recognized as an agile thought leader who articulates and communicates technical vision and translates that vision into business acumen and is currently a principal cloud solution architect in the Microsoft Customer Success organization.
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