Application Architecture Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. Which architectural pattern is best suited for an application that needs to scale its components independently and communicate via lightweight protocols like HTTP/REST?
2. When designing a high-availability application, which strategy should be implemented to ensure that a failure in one geographic region does not take down the entire service?
3. You are designing an application that requires asynchronous processing for long-running tasks to prevent blocking the user interface. Which component is most appropriate for this requirement?
4. In a 3-tier application architecture, which layer is responsible for enforcing business rules and processing data before it is sent to the database?
5. You are designing a distributed system that must maintain data consistency across multiple microservices. Which pattern helps manage distributed transactions by coordinating a series of local transactions across services?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.