4 Cognizant Solution Architect Interview Questions & Answers | Complete Prep Guide 2025

Cognizant Solution Architect Interview Experiences

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Solution Architect Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 23 Mar 2023

Interview experience

Good

Difficulty level

Hard

Process Duration

Less than 2 weeks

Result

Selected

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

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Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.

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Round 2 - One-on-one

(2 Questions)

Q1. Technical interview questions about CRM and Microsoft solutions

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Q2. General questions about Dynamics, PowerApps etc

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Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 2 rounds of phone interviews asking technical questions about CRM products

Solution Architect Interview Questions & Answers

Anonymous

posted on 7 Sep 2021

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Aug 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire

2 Questions

Q1. IOT to SFDC Integration. How would you build reusable components. Sharing model.

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Q2. REST and SOAP integration. Ensure successful delivery of messages to third party system and stamp the result back in SFDC.

Ans.

To integrate REST and SOAP for message delivery and result stamping in SFDC.

Use SOAP for outbound message delivery to third party system.
Use REST for inbound message delivery to SFDC.
Implement error handling and retry mechanisms.
Ensure data security and privacy.
Test thoroughly before deployment.

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Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - focus on the fundamentals. Think through the governor limits before answering.

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Wipro

Anonymous

posted on 16 Sep 2021

I was interviewed before Sep 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test

(1 Question)

Round duration - 140 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Test timing was at 2:00 pm , it was conducted in a college and the environment was good for the test. Camera was a primary part of test, so no suspicious activity.

Q1.

Sum of Two Numbers Represented as Arrays

Given two numbers in the form of two arrays where each element of the array represents a digit, calculate the sum of these two numbers and return this sum as an ar...

Ans.

Given two numbers represented as arrays, calculate their sum and return the result as an array.

Iterate through the arrays from right to left, adding digits and carrying over if necessary
Handle cases where one array is longer than the other by considering the remaining digits
Ensure the final sum array does not have any leading zeros

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Round 2 - Face to Face

Round duration - 20 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The round was conducted at around 12 p.m. I was called at the college location and then it was conducted. The interviewer was quite polite and frank.

Round 3 - HR

Round duration - 8 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This round was conducted right after finishing and clearing the technical round at the same place and on the same day.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 60 %Wipro Limited interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - OOPS, Data Structures, Database Concepts, Coding problemsTime required to prepare for the interview - 2-3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice atleast 2-3 Coding problems daily so your logic building becomes stronger.
Tip 2 : Exercise problems based on OOPS concepts and others too.
Tip 3 : If you can have your own project built, then it's the major point and will act as a plus point.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Your resume should be in standard form, short and simple will be more effective.
Tip 2 : Whatever you have learned, you need to mention it in your resume as that will be your primary source of selection and having project on your resume is important.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 10 Feb 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Feb 2020. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. Hr

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - You should be true to what you are putting before the interviewer . Try to put your ideas Add something you did well in your career like in projects /research which you know very well and versed in concepts about it for open interview so that interviewer can get bandwidth where he can ask questions from. This is simply a key .

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Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 31 Jan 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Dec 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. 1.Describe a situation where you have taken a quick decision and failed, and a situation where you succeeded. 2. What is a skill you have tried to achieve but failed? 3. Describe a decision you have taken ...

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Always try to take risk in small problems . When you face the consequences, you would be able to tackle bigger problems.
2. Every skill you learn, even if you didn't excel in it is not to be considered a waste of time/failure, you learn something simply by participating.

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TCS

Anonymous

posted on 23 Jun 2021

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jun 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. Tell me about Yourself, some questions related to machine learning, and I was asked more questions to differentiate like differences between ml and ai, python and c, c and java and procedural and functiona...

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Get a complete grip on your resume and be confident about what you say, If you don't know the answer it is okay to agree that you don't know the answer so that interviewer can ask the next questions.

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Accenture

Anonymous

posted on 1 Jun 2022

I was interviewed before Jun 2021.

Round 1 - Coding Test

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 180 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was an mcq + coding round. There were aptitude and ouput based question in mcq. And coding questions were easy

Q1.

Find the Duplicate Number Problem Statement

Given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' containing numbers from 0 to (N - 2). Each number appears at least once, and there is one number that appears twice. Yo...

Ans.

Find the duplicate number in an array of integers from 0 to (N-2).

Iterate through the array and keep track of the frequency of each number using a hashmap.
Return the number with a frequency greater than 1 as the duplicate number.
Time complexity can be optimized to O(N) using Floyd's Tortoise and Hare algorithm.

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Q2.

Reverse String Operations Problem Statement

You are provided with a string S and an array of integers A of size M. Your task is to perform M operations on the string as specified by the indices in array A...

Ans.

Given a string and an array of indices, reverse substrings based on the indices to obtain the final string.

Iterate through the array of indices and reverse the substrings accordingly
Ensure the range specified by each index is non-empty
Return the final string after all operations are completed

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Round 2 - Video Call

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was technical + hr round. there were 2 people as interviewer. They stated from intro and asked some basic puzzles and hr questions. After that they asked about my projects, technologies and some ds algo and dbms questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criterianaAccenture interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, System Design, Algorithms, Dynamic ProgrammingTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice aptitude
Tip 2 : Focus on practicing coding
Tip 3 : Learn from mistakes

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Mention some projects that you have done
Tip 2 : Try to have skills that are required for the role

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 12 Jan 2022

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed before Jan 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. Oops Concepts,JAVA 8

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Quite simple and easy. 1st round technical.2nd round HR

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

HCLTech

Anonymous

posted on 20 Aug 2022

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Aug 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:

Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.

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Round 2 - Coding Test

Easy DSA questions and some questions on resume

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't join if you are a fresher and want to grow as a developer. I had resigned that time I am writing this review

Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

Infosys

Anonymous

posted on 9 Sep 2020

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Mar 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire

1 Question

Q1. How do you get the second to last element from a SQL table?

Ans.

To get the second to last element from a SQL table, use the OFFSET-FETCH clause.

Use the ORDER BY clause to sort the table in descending order.
Use the OFFSET-FETCH clause to skip the last row and fetch the second to last row.
Example: SELECT column_name FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name DESC OFFSET 1 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY;

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practice by building a simple full stack web application.

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Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Solution Architect interview?

Cognizant interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Resume Shortlist and One-on-one Round.

How to prepare for Cognizant Solution Architect interview?

Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cognizant. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cognizant expect are Java, AWS, Microservices, Presales and RFP.

What are the top questions asked in Cognizant Solution Architect interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cognizant Solution Architect interview -

REST and SOAP integration. Ensure successful delivery of messages to third part...read more
IOT to SFDC Integration. How would you build reusable components. Sharing model...read more
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