Exam · AI outsourcing, resilience and exit planning for financial firms

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Written practice, ungraded

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Practice 1

Use dependencies.json to annotate a service dependency map and record availability for cloud-west and outbound-channel failures.

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For cloud-west, primary=false, secondary=false, independent=true. For outbound-channel, all three are false. Different model names do not remove shared hosting. Capacity, access, record quality, staff readiness, channel operation and authorised use still require evidence. Success requires the common dependencies and both failure results, with no claim that graph availability proves recovery.

Ungraded practice. Review evidence, intermediate reasoning, scope and unresolved gaps against the worked guide. Keyword matching does not establish practical competence.

Practice 2

Use all eight E01-E08 entries in provider_evidence.json to complete workpaper.md.

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All eight claims remain bounded. E01 needs identity and field reconciliation; E02 shares cloud and identity; E03 needs queue outcomes; E04 lacks access and derivative evidence; E05 excludes backups and other stores; E06 lacks executed transition terms; E07 lacks failback reconciliation; E08 is only a simulation. Multiple gaps prevent a clean exit conclusion. Accept different prioritisation if it addresses customer service, data completeness and authority with named owners rather than inventing an approval.

Ungraded practice. Review evidence, intermediate reasoning, scope and unresolved gaps against the worked guide. Keyword matching does not establish practical competence.

Practice 3

Inspect the three ledger/export JSON files, then run checker.py offline and compare the export results with your manual findings.

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Faulty:12 rows, 11 unique, missing R012, duplicate R005, R008 status mismatch and R010 version mismatch; valid unique count 8. Corrected:12 rows, 12 unique, all exact. The checker prints a payload_sha256 for each comparison using sorted compact JSON, not physical file bytes. Record the actual full outputs rather than transcribing a shortened hash. Acceptance is limited to the supplied ledger population and fields; it does not establish ownership, lawful processing or completeness beyond the fixture.

Ungraded practice. Review evidence, intermediate reasoning, scope and unresolved gaps against the worked guide. Keyword matching does not establish practical competence.

Practice 4

Use requests.csv and scenario.json to build the manual8 slot ledger before consulting checker.py.

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There are 88 notices. Manual8 backlogs are 32, 40, 44, 48, 48, 48, 44, 40. It completes 48 and leaves 40;32 completed notices are late and 16 pending notices overdue. The other 24 pending notices are unresolved. Exactly 60 minutes is within target. Known failures total 48 at the cutoff, but future outcomes of pending work have not been simulated. Do not divide 32 by 48 and present it as the failure rate for all arrivals.

Ungraded practice. Review evidence, intermediate reasoning, scope and unresolved gaps against the worked guide. Keyword matching does not establish practical competence.

Practice 5

Use the manual8 results and incident_timeline.json to write an internal evidence note in workpaper.md.

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A satisfactory note states 88 arrivals, 48 completed, 40 pending, 32 late-completed and 16 overdue-pending at 120. It preserves start 0 and treats the provider estimate and dashboard as limited observations. The service owner reviews reconciliation with data and operations roles before failback; authorised staff determine any external reporting or communication. No real harm amount, restoration promise or regulator deadline is inferred. An equivalent clear note earns full practice credit without matching the sample wording.

Ungraded practice. Review evidence, intermediate reasoning, scope and unresolved gaps against the worked guide. Keyword matching does not establish practical competence.

Practice 6

Complete workpaper.md using every supplied evidence file. Produce a one-page decision summary plus supporting tables and checker output.

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The packet must show both cloud-dependent paths fail together; faulty export fails and corrected 12-record export passes; manual8 and late16 fail while independent16 passes only the supplied target. Include 88 arrivals and each scenario result, with pending work uncounted as success. Contract execution, real staff/channel/access readiness, backup/derivative/subprocessor evidence and R004 retention authority remain open. A defensible recommendation is to retain the independent route for further authorised rehearsal while withholding a clean exit sign-off. Other bounded choices are acceptable if supported by all evidence and explicit residual gaps.

Ungraded practice. Review evidence, intermediate reasoning, scope and unresolved gaps against the worked guide. Keyword matching does not establish practical competence.

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