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Phase 40 — Quizzes

🇪🇸 Espejo legible del banco de preguntas; la fuente canónica es data/quizzes/phase-40-hardening-postmortem.yaml.

q-40-01 — How many sections in the Phase 40 post-mortem template?

  • Two
  • Three
  • Four (situation, timeline, contributing factors, action items) ← correct
  • Six

q-40-02 — Properties of a blameless action item

  • Targets a system / process change, not a person's behavior ← correct
  • Has an owner and a due date ← correct
  • Has a binary success criterion ← correct
  • Names the engineer responsible for the original mistake

q-40-03 — Dominant cost of skipping a post-mortem?

Free response. Acceptable answers contain recur.

The same incident class recurs because contributing factors weren't surfaced.

q-40-04 — What should each timeline entry be anchored to?

  • A subjective recollection
  • An objective signal: log line, commit, alert, deploy ← correct
  • A timestamp from personal notes
  • A guess at when the user noticed

q-40-05 — When does the curriculum require a post-mortem?

  • Only when there is data loss
  • Only on Phase 40 close
  • Whenever a deploy required a rollback, OR a learner-facing failure exceeded 10 minutes ← correct
  • Whenever the team feels it would be useful

See theory/05-postmortem-template-and-fictional-incident.md and the /break for the recurrence demonstration.