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Proposal Development and Documentation Questions

Covers the end to end creation of persuasive proposals, plans, and supporting technical and programmatic documentation that translate complex concepts into actionable, decision ready artifacts. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to gather and synthesize requirements, describe the current state and business problem, and craft a clear solution narrative with architecture and component diagrams. Expected deliverables include an executive summary highlighting business value and return on investment, detailed solution specifications, integration and deployment guides, an implementation roadmap with phases, timelines, milestones, resource and cost estimates, and acceptance criteria. Candidates should perform risk and dependency analysis with mitigation strategies, document assumptions and traceability, apply version control and review processes, and produce handover artifacts that enable implementation and auditability. Emphasis is on audience tailoring for executives, technical teams, and procurement, evidence based recommendations supported by diagrams and data, clarity and persuasiveness of writing, stakeholder alignment and sign off, and the ability to justify trade offs, schedules, and resource plans.

MediumTechnical
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List and describe the minimum handover artifacts you must provide to engineering and operations after proposal acceptance to enable implementation and audits. For each artifact specify owner, validation steps, and ideal format (e.g., runbook PDF, terraform repo).
EasyTechnical
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Describe the concrete artifacts, data points and validation steps you need to document the 'current state' architecture before proposing a solution. Provide at least five items (e.g., network diagram, performance baselines, config dumps) and explain how you would verify each.
HardTechnical
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For a microservices-based payment platform, define SLOs/SLA metrics, error budgets, and acceptance criteria for go-live that you'd include in the proposal. Explain how these tie into monitoring dashboards, alerting thresholds, and contractual penalties or remediation steps.
EasyTechnical
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List the essential elements you should collect during an initial requirements-gathering workshop for a solutions proposal. For each element, explain why it matters and what artifact you'd produce (e.g., business goals -> executive summary; current infra -> component diagram). Include functional and non-functional requirements, stakeholders, constraints and success criteria.
EasyTechnical
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Name five documentation and architecture tools you would use to produce, collaborate on, and hand over proposal artifacts (e.g., Confluence, Lucidchart). For each tool explain one key strength and one limitation relevant to pre-sales and handover.

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