Practice collection

Build architectural judgment one challenge at a time.

Work through five original practice scenarios on trusted boundaries, tool safety, retries, shared state, and side-effect control.

These are original scenario-based practice questions for Agentic Architect Lab. They are not official certification questions.

Challenge 1Authorization boundariesIntermediate

Purchase Order Approval

Examine how an agent should handle an order that needs manager approval before it can be submitted.

A purchase order needs manager approval before an agent can finish the workflow. What should control submission?

Challenge 2Tool safetyIntermediate

Examine how an agent should use retrieved content that mixes useful facts with hostile instructions.

A retrieved document includes both the answer and an attempt to redirect the agent. What should happen next?

Challenge 3Idempotency and paymentsIntermediate

Examine how an agent should recover when a payment call times out and the previous attempt may already have succeeded.

A payment request timed out, but the processor may already have charged the customer. What should happen before any retry?

Challenge 4Multi-agent coordinationFoundational

Examine how cooperating agents should coordinate task facts without blurring ownership or access control.

Several agents need the same task facts, but not the same edit rights. How should that coordination work?

Challenge 5Reliability and escalationIntermediate

Examine how an agent should respond when an operation keeps failing and recovery may or may not be safe.

An operation is failing repeatedly. How should the agent decide between retrying, stopping, and escalating?