Technical Risk Assessment and Problem Solving Questions

Focuses on evaluating technical risk, making trade off decisions, and designing mitigations when systems face complexity or change. Candidates should demonstrate identifying potential failure modes, modeling consequences such as data loss or downtime, weighing alternatives (for example full cutover versus incremental migration), estimating operational complexity and monitoring requirements, and deciding when to involve subject matter experts. Covers decision frameworks, data driven risk assessment, rollback and testing strategies, service level objective considerations, and communicating technical risk to stakeholders while balancing schedule and reliability.