Operational Excellence and Production Readiness Questions

Understand production operational concerns and ensure programs include measures for operational readiness. Areas include monitoring and observability strategy, alerting and instrumentation, deployment pipelines and release strategies, rollback and canary plans, capacity planning, on call and incident response procedures, postmortem culture, and production runbooks. Explain how operational requirements and service level objectives influence scheduling, testing, rollout sequencing, and team capacity during program execution.