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Timed assessment

12 practical questions
60 minutes
Mid level

Questions are drawn from a bank of 36. Your report includes a skill breakdown and lessons to practice next.

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Practice interviews

Junior tasks cover the fundamentals. Mid and senior tasks add debugging, changing requirements and review decisions.

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10 interviews

Automation developer
Junior
22 min

Dispatch notification task: PX60

Larch Field Supply needs one email per manual dispatch event. Send it to event.owner, subject Dispatch followed by one space and event.reference. The body is event.site trimmed and uppercase, then colon-space and event.units as text. Don't use the sample recipient or discard zero units.

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Skills and rubricDynamic content and types

Uses current event data and the correct action type.
Inspects the requested effect in Run history.
Explains why an excluded input mustn't create a side effect.

Microsoft 365 developer
Junior
22 min

Category routing screen: PX61

Route Plover Frame Works's manual requests by trimmed, lowercase event.category. Post to Teams channel Dispatch PX61: repair gives Repair plus the reference, return gives Return plus the reference, and every other value gives Review category plus the reference. Each prefix ends with one space.

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Skills and rubricSwitch normalization and default

Uses current event data and the correct action type.
Inspects the requested effect in Run history.
Explains why an excluded input mustn't create a side effect.

Microsoft 365 developer
Junior
22 min

Broken array scope: PX62

Repair Kestrel Tool Repair's request handoff from SharePoint list Requests PX62. Read Get items, retain Status Ready with integer Units greater than zero, then email each retained row's Owner, subject Dispatch PX62, body its ID. Held and zero-unit rows must send nothing; an empty list must succeed.

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Skills and rubricConnector arrays and current-item scope

Uses current event data and the correct action type.
Inspects the requested effect in Run history.
Explains why an excluded input mustn't create a side effect.

Automation developer
Mid
28 min

Nullable supplier payload: PX63

Parse Larch Field Supply's event.payload JSON text as an object requiring string reference and site that can be string or null. Send queue63@example.test one email, subject Intake PX63, body reference, space-slash-space, then trimmed uppercase site. Use UNKNOWN only for null, preserving a supplied blank string.

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Skills and rubricJSON schema and null semantics

Handles an empty, null or excluded input deliberately.
Traces a changed requirement through dependent actions.
Reconciles the visible output with the source event and expected branch.

Automation developer
Mid
28 min

Access approval review: PX64

Build Plover Frame Works's restricted-access handoff. Create approval titled Access plus event.reference, assigned to event.manager. Wait for its ID. If the outcome is Approve, post Provision plus the reference to Dispatch PX64; otherwise post Denied plus the reference. Use one space after each prefix.

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Skills and rubricApproval outcomes and dynamic ownership

Handles an empty, null or excluded input deliberately.
Traces a changed requirement through dependent actions.
Reconciles the visible output with the source event and expected branch.

Automation developer
Mid
28 min

Failed connector handoff: PX65

Kestrel Tool Repair's pickup email sometimes fails. Put its email to queue65@example.test, subject Pickup PX65, body event.reference in a Try scope. A Catch scope after failure or timeout posts Pickup unresolved plus the reference to Dispatch PX65. Always post Checked plus the reference to Audit PX65, after Catch succeeds or is skipped.

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Skills and rubricRun-after recovery and audit

Handles an empty, null or excluded input deliberately.
Traces a changed requirement through dependent actions.
Reconciles the visible output with the source event and expected branch.

Microsoft 365 developer
Mid
28 min

Batch summary under a new threshold: PX66

Larch Field Supply is replacing one email per row with one batch summary. Read Excel table Dispatch PX66; keep Ready rows with integer Units at least event.minimum. Shape an array with Reference from ID and numeric Units. Send one email to queue66@example.test, subject Batch PX66, body the JSON text of that array, including [] when no rows qualify.

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Skills and rubricArray shaping and volume control

Handles an empty, null or excluded input deliberately.
Traces a changed requirement through dependent actions.
Reconciles the visible output with the source event and expected branch.

Automation developer
Senior
35 min

Repeated event and stable keys: PX67

Plover Frame Works receives repeated manual status events. In SharePoint list Register PX67, match ID to event.reference. Update only Status to event.status if it exists; otherwise create {ID, Status}. Preserve other existing fields. The local tests run sequentially; discuss the separate risk of simultaneous events.

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Skills and rubricIdempotent upsert and concurrency limits

Explains concurrency and recovery limits.
Defines reproducible positive and negative acceptance runs.
Names production checks that remain outside the local fixtures.

RPA developer
Senior
35 min

Desktop messy worksheet: PX68

Kestrel Tool Repair's desktop export Input PX68 has text Units and ID values that must remain text. Read the worksheet, keep Status Ready, convert each Units with Convert text to number and write only {ID, Units} to Clean PX68. Preserve zero quantities. Empty source data must produce an empty output table.

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Skills and rubricDesktop types and row cleanup

Explains concurrency and recovery limits.
Defines reproducible positive and negative acceptance runs.
Names production checks that remain outside the local fixtures.

RPA developer
Senior
35 min

Desktop export acceptance: PX69

Review Larch Field Supply's desktop handoff. Run application Larch Field Supply Dispatch, extract the Approved pickups grid into Grid, write it to worksheet Grid PX69, then click the named Confirm export control. Preserve that order. A valid empty grid still writes an empty worksheet before confirmation.

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Skills and rubricUI identity and acceptance order

Explains concurrency and recovery limits.
Defines reproducible positive and negative acceptance runs.
Names production checks that remain outside the local fixtures.

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Practice interviews

Dispatch notification task: PX60

Category routing screen: PX61

Broken array scope: PX62

Nullable supplier payload: PX63

Access approval review: PX64

Failed connector handoff: PX65

Batch summary under a new threshold: PX66

Repeated event and stable keys: PX67

Desktop messy worksheet: PX68

Desktop export acceptance: PX69

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