P1 warm-up · 8 questions

Warm up: Solution Design & Architecture

A quick 8-question drill on CCAR-P P1, easy to hard. Rate your confidence as you go — a 5-minute win to find where you stand before a full practice set.

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P1 · Q1Agent vs workflow vs single-shot
A team must extract five fixed fields from uploaded invoices. The document layout is stable and the extraction target never changes. Which design pattern is most appropriate?
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P1 · Q2Orchestration topologies
A research assistant must gather facts from four independent sources and merge them into one summary. Each source lookup is self-contained and none depends on another's output. Results must be returned to the user within two seconds. Which topology is most appropriate?
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P1 · Q3Multi-agent vs single-agent-with-toolsSelect 2
Which two statements correctly describe trade-offs between a multi-agent system and a single agent equipped with tools? (Select 2)
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P1 · Q4Prompt-chaining vs routing vs parallelization
Incoming support tickets must each be sent to one of three specialized handlers based on the ticket's category. Which workflow pattern fits?
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P1 · Q5Tool granularity and the deterministic-vs-model boundary
An agent computes sales tax by reasoning about rates in natural language, and the totals are occasionally wrong. Regulators require the calculation to be exact every time. What is the best next action?
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P1 · Q6Capacity, rate limits, and token budgetingSelect 2
A launch expects a large traffic spike that may exceed the account's rate limits. Which two capacity design choices are sound? (Select 2)
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P1 · Q7Confidence-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?
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P1 · Q8Evaluator-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?
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