Gov / ontology
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Rounds you should expect
Controls
PII zones, who can run a join, and why a gold table is not an ontology by itself.
From the question bank
medium · Warehouse · Snowflake
Would you put Cortex COMPLETE inside a Looker explore?
Practice →hard · Warehouse · Snowflake
ACCOUNTADMIN ran a Cortex call on a PII column. What was missing besides “don’t”?
Practice →medium · AI / ML · AI / RAG / MLOps
ACL-aware retrieval. What breaks if you embed docs and forget permissions?
Practice →easy · AI / ML · AI / RAG / MLOps
PII in prompts. How do you not leak the warehouse into the vendor?
Practice →hard · System design · System design
PII in bronze, marketing wants emails. Draw the control plane.
Practice →hard · Behavioral · Behavioral
Someone queried bronze PII from Slack. What did you do that week?
Practice →easy · Behavioral · Behavioral
You were asked to copy PII into a spreadsheet for a vendor demo. What did you do?
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