Being an architect sums up so many disciplines there for most of the arguments that have been made on this blog are true. So what we can see is that architect are typically people who are very versatile within all that surrounds software "developing". There can be differed type of architects in my opinion. Just like there are differed type of consultants. Depending on what type of architect (what your strongest skills are) gives you only an indication on how well you can preform as an architect for a certain position. The path to become an architect is not that easy. Specially since there is no entry position for this title like Junior software architect or is there?