Chapter 6. The Design Scenario

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”

—Charles Eames

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What do the best architects do when faced with a design problem? How do they adapt accordingly, when provided with new information? What type of qualities do they exhibit throughout the entire process?

The second phase of the VCDX Defense is the Design Scenario, which provides an opportunity for candidates to demonstrate their ability to gather requirements and apply them to a design. The candidate is presented with a set of design parameters and must use them to formulate a design. Here you are largely demonstrating that you know how to ask the questions to elicit the right requirements ...

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