GenAI Architect Interview Scenarios

Scenario — Enterprise RAG platform

Design a production RAG platform for an enterprise knowledge base.

Cover:

• Ingestion and document lifecycle.
• Retrieval and ranking.
• Model and context strategy.
• Identity and authorization.
• Evaluation and observability.
• Cost controls.
• Failure modes and fallback behavior.

Scenario — Agent safety

An agent can call internal tools but occasionally performs an unsafe action.

Explain how you would constrain tools, validate inputs and outputs, apply authorization, observe behavior, and define safe failure states.