P1 · 8 questions

Solution Design & Architecture — Attempt 3

CCAR-P P1 practice. Some items are “select all that apply” — they tell you how many to pick and are graded all-or-nothing. Commit before revealing, then read every explanation.

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P1 · Q1Conversational vs single-shot
Users need to refine a travel itinerary over several back-and-forth turns, each building on the last. Which interaction pattern fits best?
P1 · Q2Build-vs-buy and platform selection
A company already standardizes on a cloud provider with strict data-residency rules requiring model calls to stay inside that provider's tenancy and billing. They want Claude. Which access path is most appropriate?
P1 · Q3Confidence-based escalation vs rigid policy
A loan-eligibility agent should hand off to a human. Applications below a legally fixed credit-score cutoff must always be reviewed; separately, genuinely ambiguous cases should also get a look. Which escalation design is best?
P1 · Q4Reference-architecture selection and switching cost
A team is choosing between two reference architectures for a new assistant. One is simple and covers today's needs; the other is more complex but anticipates a feature the roadmap says is likely within a quarter. Migrating later would require a costly rewrite of the tool-calling layer. What is the most appropriate choice?
P1 · Q5Failure domain and blast radius
A single shared agent process handles both a critical billing workflow and an experimental marketing chatbot. The marketing feature crashes and takes billing down with it. What is the best architectural remedy?
P1 · Q6Evaluator-optimizer / debate topology
Draft legal clauses must meet a precise quality bar, and quality can be checked against a clear rubric each round. Latency is not a concern, but output quality is paramount. Which topology best fits?
P1 · Q7Task decomposition and context isolationSelect 2
A coordinator will decompose a complex report into independent sections handled by subagents. Which two practices support correct decomposition and context isolation? (Select 2)
P1 · Q8Timeouts, circuit breakers, and idempotencySelect 2
An agent orchestrates several external tools, one of which is a flaky third-party API. Which two reliability mechanisms most directly limit blast radius and prevent duplicated side effects? (Select 2)

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