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834 questions across 64 roles. Open one to see what a strong answer includes and common slips, then drill it out loud with Ava. New to answer structure? Start with the learning hub.
Behavioural
Past experience: what you did and what happened.
220 questions
Technical
Craft knowledge and how you would do the work.
572 questions
Case
A scenario to reason through and decide.
29 questions
System design
Design a system and defend the trade-offs.
13 questions
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- TechnicalMid levelProject Manager
Tell me about a project where a key dependency slipped. How did you rework the schedule?
Tests: Scheduling & dependencies
- TechnicalMid levelProject Manager
How do you identify risks early on a project, and how do you track them once you have?
Tests: Risk & issue management
- TechnicalMid levelProject Manager
How do you manage a project budget, and what do you do when you see it trending over?
Tests: Budget & resource management
- TechnicalMid levelProject Manager
How do you write a status update that leaders actually read and trust, especially when the news is bad?
Tests: Status reporting
- TechnicalSeniorProject Manager
Tell me about the largest or most complex project you have run. How did you set up governance and decision making?
Tests: Scope & planning
- TechnicalSeniorProject Manager
Tell me about a project that failed or was cancelled. Looking back, what would you do differently?
Tests: Risk & issue management
- TechnicalEntry levelScrum Master
In your own words, what is the purpose of a retrospective, and how would you run one for a team that finds them boring?
Tests: Facilitation
- TechnicalEntry levelScrum Master
A developer tells you they are blocked waiting on another team. What would you do today?
Tests: Removing impediments
- TechnicalEntry levelScrum Master
Can you explain the difference between the product owner's role and the scrum master's role?
Tests: Scrum & agile practice
- TechnicalMid levelScrum Master
Your daily stand-up has turned into a long status meeting for the manager. How would you fix it?
Tests: Facilitation
- TechnicalMid levelScrum Master
Which delivery measures do you track, like cycle time or throughput, and how do you use them without people gaming them?
Tests: Delivery metrics & flow
- TechnicalMid levelScrum Master
When have you decided that Scrum was not the right fit, and adapted to something else like Kanban?
Tests: Scrum & agile practice
- TechnicalSeniorScrum Master
How have you coordinated delivery across several teams working on the same product?
Tests: Scaling & cross-team coordination
- TechnicalSeniorScrum Master
Leadership wants a fixed date and fixed scope for a big release. How do you respond as the agile lead?
Tests: Delivery metrics & flow
- TechnicalSeniorScrum Master
How do you know when a team no longer needs you as much, and how do you help them get there?
Tests: Coaching teams
- TechnicalAny levelScrum Master
Describe an impediment outside your team's control that you managed to get resolved. How did you do it?
Tests: Removing impediments
- TechnicalEntry levelBusiness Analyst
If a manager says their team's reporting process is too slow, what questions would you ask first?
Tests: Requirements elicitation
- TechnicalEntry levelBusiness Analyst
How would you write a requirement so that a developer and a tester both read it the same way?
Tests: Documentation & user stories
- TechnicalMid levelBusiness Analyst
Walk me through how you would map how a process works today and how it should work in future, and which tools you would use.
Tests: Process modelling
- TechnicalMid levelBusiness Analyst
Describe how you have used data, whether spreadsheets or queries, to back up a recommendation.
Tests: Data analysis