FDE Foundations practice exam: 10 free sample questions.

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1. 1What does a forward deployed engineer do first when arriving at a customer?

   Map the real problem with the people who feel it, before proposing any toolInstall the company platform on day one so work can startRewrite the customer's oldest system in a modern stackPresent the product roadmap to the customer's leadership

2. 2A customer asks for a dashboard. What is the safer first response?

   Ask which decision the dashboard should change, and who makes itBuild the dashboard with every metric availableEstimate the dashboard in story points for next sprintRecommend a business intelligence vendor

3. 3Which of these is a well-framed problem statement?

   Support agents take 11 minutes per ticket because order history lives in three systemsThe support tooling is bad and needs modernizingWe should use AI for customer supportTickets are too slow and agents complain

4. 4You must choose between a quick workaround and a slower proper fix during a customer pilot. What decides?

   Whether the workaround's failure mode is understood, reversible and ownedAlways the proper fix; workarounds are never acceptableAlways the workaround; speed is the only pilot metricWhichever the customer shouts about loudest

5. 5Two systems disagree about a customer's address. What is the first engineering question?

   Which system owns the address, and how do the others learn about changesWhich database technology each system usesHow to merge the two databases into oneWhich team wrote each system

6. 6When is a machine learning model the WRONG answer for a customer problem?

   When a fixed rule covers the cases and every mistake needs an explanationWhen the dataset has more than a million rowsWhen the customer has engineers on staffWhen the problem involves text

7. 7What does RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) add to a language model?

   Fresh, checkable passages from the customer's own documents at answer timeA larger model with more parametersLonger training on public internet textAutomatic fact-checking with no source needed

8. 8An agent that books meetings for a customer double-books a room. What failed first?

   The action had no confirmation or undo path for an irreversible stepThe language model was too smallThe prompt was written in the wrong languageThe calendar API was too slow

9. 9What belongs in a production handover document above all?

   How to know it is broken, who gets paged, and how to roll backThe full git history of the projectBiographies of the build teamScreenshots of every screen

10. 10A customer wants to paste real patient records into a demo AI tool. What do you do?

    Stop it and substitute synthetic data; real records never enter demosAllow it since the customer owns the dataAllow it if the demo server uses HTTPSAnonymize by removing names only, then proceed