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A sharp, 5-minute assessment. See your level mapped to real role expectations, your percentile against every other engineer, and exactly what to sharpen next.

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🤖221 questions

AI Engineering

Build with LLMs — RAG, agents, evals, and AI systems.

LLM Fundamentals & PromptingRetrieval-Augmented GenerationAgents & Tool Use+4
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🧑‍💻180 questions

AI for Coding

Ship faster with AI — and keep it correct.

AI-Assisted WorkflowsPrompting for CodeReviewing AI Output+3
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🧠180 questions

Building AI on the Cloud

Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry — RAG and agents in production.

Managed LLM APIsAWS BedrockGCP Vertex AI+3
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☸️187 questions

Kubernetes

How deep does your cluster knowledge really go?

TroubleshootingCluster LifecycleCluster Extensions+5
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☁️190 questions

AWS Cloud

Prove you can ship on the cloud everyone runs on.

Security & IdentityData ProtectionResilience & HA+5
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🎨180 questions

Frontend Engineering

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React — build for the browser.

HTML & SemanticsCSS & LayoutJavaScript & the DOM+3
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⚙️180 questions

Backend Engineering

APIs, auth, data, and reliability at scale.

HTTP & REST APIsAuth & SecurityData & Persistence+3
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🗄️180 questions

Databases

SQL, modeling, indexing, transactions, and scale.

SQL & QueriesData ModelingIndexing & Performance+3
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📦168 questions

Containerization

Build small, run safe, ship anywhere.

Images & LayersDockerfiles & BuildsRuntime & Networking+4
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🔐66 questions

Security & DevSecOps

Ship fast without shipping holes.

AppSec & OWASPSecrets ManagementIdentity & Access+4
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🏗️190 questions

Terraform & IaC

Declare it, plan it, ship it.

IaC ConceptsTerraform FundamentalsCore Workflow+5
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📊140 questions

Observability & Monitoring

See inside your systems before they fall over.

Observability ConceptsPrometheus ArchitecturePromQL: Selecting & Rates+3
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🐍37 questions

Python

From data types to the GIL.

Data TypesFunctions & ScopeOOP+3
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🚀66 questions

CI/CD & Delivery Pipelines

Can you take a commit to production — built, tested, signed, and safely rolled out?

CI/CDContainersInfrastructure as Code+4
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🔁64 questions

GitOps & Delivery

Git as the single source of truth — how well do you wield it?

PrinciplesArgo CDFlux+3
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🧩35 questions

System Design

Tradeoffs, not buzzwords.

ScalabilityDatabases & StorageCaching+3
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🐧147 questions

Linux & the Command Line

From pwd to process signals — how fluent is your shell-fu?

Essential CommandsOperations & PackagesService & System Config+3
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🔷186 questions

Microsoft Azure

Master the cloud that runs the enterprise.

Identity & Entra IDGovernance & CostStorage+5
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🌥️190 questions

Google Cloud

Ship and scale on Google's cloud

Environment SetupBillingCompute+5
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📜60 questions

Shell Scripting

Quote it, trap it, ship it.

Variables & QuotingControl FlowFunctions & Arguments+3
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