Constraint and Risk Management Questions
Covers identifying and managing execution constraints and related risks that affect plans and roadmaps. Topics include resource constraints such as capacity, budget, and talent, prioritization tradeoffs, technical debt versus feature investment decisions, contingency and mitigation planning, risk registers, scenario planning, and communication strategies for stakeholders when constraints cause scope or timeline changes. Candidates should be able to demonstrate how they surface constraints early, quantify risk impacts, and negotiate tradeoffs to meet business objectives.
HardTechnical
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A high-severity security risk is discovered in production that could enable data exfiltration. Create a prioritized list of 10 mitigation actions ranked by speed and impact; indicate which are stop-gap (short-term) versus permanent fixes, estimate effort (S/M/L) for each, and recommend which actions to execute within the first 48 hours.
MediumSystem Design
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Design a phased mitigation and testing strategy for a highly disruptive, zero-downtime database migration that must occur with minimal customer impact. Include order of operations, verification checks, fallback verification steps, and measurable acceptance criteria for each phase.
MediumTechnical
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Dev team capacity is forecasted to reduce by 30% due to hiring freezes. How would you rebaseline the existing roadmap and what specific criteria would you use to cut scope? Provide a step-by-step method and sample metrics you would use to justify scope reductions to product leadership.
HardTechnical
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Design a contract clause and accompanying measurable SLA that balances a customer's demand for high performance against the vendor's limited operational capacity and budget. Specify measurable metrics, remedies (credits or remediation), exceptions (force majeure, traffic spikes), and pragmatic enforcement language that could be reviewed by legal.
HardSystem Design
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Technical debt in a monolith threatens a scheduled migration to microservices planned in 3 months. Propose a high-confidence mitigation plan that allows the migration to proceed with acceptable risk. Include gating criteria, short-term shims/strangler-pattern steps, canary strategies, team training, and required monitoring/telemetry changes.
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