FILE 07.01 / SCENARIO
SIMULATED · FOR CANDIDATE EVALUATION · NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
The Boardroom Incident
A multi-vendor outage during a high-stakes meeting. Read the telemetry, decide what Lena should do next.
FILE 07.01.1 / SETUP
Tuesday, 2:02 PM. A board meeting is starting in Conference Room 12, third floor.
The video feed dies on the in-room camera. The microphone is still live, the room display is still up, but the camera is offline. The COO has just walked in. The CIO is on the call from London. The CEO is in the room.
On the operator console — the one a NetSpeek-deployed customer engineer sees — Lena has just finished a 4.6-second diagnosis pass. She's confident. She has a proposed action ready. The clock on the operator's screen has been ticking for 47 seconds since the first heartbeat gap.
You're the operator. The next 30 seconds matter.
The telemetry below is what you can see right now. Lena's diagnosis card is below that. Read both. Decide whether you'd let her execute her proposed action, modify it, or override it entirely.
The scenario isn't about whether Lena is right. The scenario is about how you reason about what she's telling you — and what you'd need to know that she hasn't surfaced.
FILE 07.01.2 / TELEMETRY
What is on the operator's screen.
Real-shaped operational data. Anonymized device IDs, real-shaped timing. The same view an on-call engineer would see in the moment.
FILE 07.01.3 / LENA REASONING
What Lena would recommend right now.
DNS resolution timeout on the conference room VLAN.
Proposed action
Restart the conference room camera firmware and clear the DNS cache on the edge switch.
Cited evidence
- 01Device status reads DEGRADED with a 47-second heartbeat gap.
- 02Switch uplink utilization is at 94% versus a 31% baseline.
- 03Last 12 incidents tagged 'camera_offline' resolved with firmware restart.
FILE 07.01.4 / YOUR RESPONSE
Tell us what you would do.
Short and specific beats long and vague. The next step is the application form — we save what you have written here so you do not lose it.