Interviewers ask dozens of different CDC questions but listen for the same four things: what you assume, how the failure works, what the fix costs, and what evidence closes it. This topic teaches that answering habit, how to draw any crossing on a whiteboard, how to name the failure mode first, and how your answers are scored.
Lesson | After it you can... |
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Structure any CDC or RDC answer as Assumption, Mechanism, Trade-off, Evidence. | |
Draw launch flop, capture flop, clocks, and synchroniser on a whiteboard without prompting. | |
Name the failure mode before proposing any fix. | |
Score an answer from 0 to 4 and say what a 4 sounds like. |
Read them in order, then keep the framework visible while working the drills: every drill prompt in this section names which step it is exercising.
Assumption, Mechanism, Trade-off, Evidence: what you assume about clocks and intent, how the failure works, what the fix costs, and what evidence closes it.