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Organizational Operations and Team Enablement Questions

Focuses on the human and organizational aspects of running systems long term. Includes team structure and skill requirements, operational readiness, on call planning and minimizing on call burden, documentation and knowledge sharing practices, runbooks and training, change management and organizational adoption, auditability and compliance considerations, designing for team growth and onboarding, and automating routine tasks to reduce manual overhead. Emphasizes designing solutions that the organization can support, operate, and expand sustainably.

MediumTechnical
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Design a recurring tabletop incident drill program for enterprise teams to improve incident response. Define cadence, participant roles, scenario selection criteria, measurable outcomes, and how lessons are fed back into runbooks and training.
HardTechnical
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Design an evidence-capture and investigation workflow for a complex, cross-team outage that requires collecting volatile in-memory state, container logs, and network captures. Include short-term ephemeral capture, long-term storage, and how to minimize impact on live systems while capturing evidence.
MediumTechnical
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During a high-severity incident you must make a trade-off between an immediate risky fix that likely restores service and a safer but slower rollback that preserves data. How do you make the decision under pressure? Describe your decision framework and communication plan with stakeholders.
MediumSystem Design
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Design an auditability and compliance plan for operational processes to meet SOC 2 requirements. Cover access controls, change logging, runbook approvals, on-call sign-offs, and evidence collection for auditors.
EasyTechnical
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As the new platform owner, design a 90-day onboarding plan for junior SREs to reach basic operational competency on a platform the team supports. Include training modules, runbook drills, mentorship, and success criteria for promotion to independent on-call rotations.

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