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- DesignIntermediateNew
Passive Intrusion Detection for an Auto Supplier's Plant Network
Using the provided plant network diagram, design a passive (listen-only) sensor architecture that pairs Zeek and Suricata at the office-to-factory boundary plus three production…
- Intrusion Detection
- Ot Security
- Zeek
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Real-Time Streaming Pipeline for Card-Fraud Scoring
Using the provided transaction-event sample, the cardholder feature snapshot, the reference scoring service, and the risk team's experiment specification, build a stream-process…
- Stream Processing
- Kafka
- Flink
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Benchmark Visual SLAM Stacks for an Indoor Delivery Robot
You receive 8 indoor rosbag recordings (about 90 minutes total) captured by the robot's stereo camera + Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) plus ground-truth trajectories from an ex…
- Visual Slam
- Sensor Fusion
- Trajectory Evaluation
Robot Perception and Autonomy - DesignIntermediateNew
Design an Invoice-Rules Mini-Language for Non-Technical Users
Design a rule mini-language whose grammar (written in Backus-Naur Form, the standard notation for describing grammars) covers boolean logic (and / or / not), comparison operator…
- Abstraction
- Recursion
- Domain Specific Language
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Rebranding for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up Moving from PLG to Enterprise
Your team must develop a rebranding strategy for TaskFlow. This includes a new brand identity (name, logo, messaging), a revised pricing model, and a sales enablement plan. Cons…
- Brand Strategy
- Positioning
- Pricing Strategy
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Diffusion Model for an E-commerce Product Studio
You receive 1,200 curated product + lifestyle images across 6 product categories, a brand-style guide, and the company's current studio cost per image (around EUR 18). Fine-tune…
- Diffusion Models
- Stable Diffusion
- Dreambooth
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a CodeQL Query Pack to Catch Logging of Personal Data
Using the provided personal-data source and logging-sink specification, write CodeQL data-flow queries for Java and Python that detect personal data travelling from a source (re…
- Static Analysis
- Codeql
- Data Flow Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Defect-Trend Analysis and Quality Action Plan for an EV Charging Platform
Pull 18 months of defect data from Jira + the field-incident system + customer-service tickets. Categorize defects by component, severity, and root-cause taxonomy. Run statistic…
- Defect Analysis
- Statistical Process Control
- Root Cause Analysis
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Design an Electronic Health Record Data-Quality Audit
Stand up a Python (pandas + DuckDB) audit notebook ingesting the 14M-record extract. Define and run quality checks across four dimensions: completeness (required-field missingne…
- Health Informatics
- Data Quality
- Snomed Ct
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - ResearchIntermediateNew
Evaluate a Knowledge-Graph-Augmented Recommender
You receive permission to use the public MovieLens 1M dataset plus a derived item-KG (movie -> genre, director, decade) built from Wikidata. Train two recommenders: a matrix-fac…
- Knowledge Graph Embeddings
- Recommender Systems
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Port a Monte Carlo Engine to CUDA for an Asset Manager
Profile the CPU MC engine to identify the kernel candidates: path generation (Brownian motion + correlated factors), payoff evaluation, aggregation. Port to CUDA: use cuRAND for…
- Cuda
- Monte Carlo
- Gpu Programming
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Pre-empt a Works Council at a Munich SaaS Scale-Up
Working only from the materials you are given, design a proactive labor-relations strategy for CloudSync. The company dossier (case file) describes the organization, the three r…
- Collective Bargaining
- Works Council Law
- Conflict Resolution
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Design a Change-Data-Capture Pipeline for an E-Commerce Reseller
Receive the MySQL schema (220 tables), 7 days of binlog samples, and the data team's freshness + correctness requirements. Design the CDC pipeline: Debezium for MySQL binlog cap…
- Change Data Capture
- Debezium
- Kafka
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Organizational Restructuring for a SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to design a new organizational structure for DataFlow Analytics. You must interview stakeholders (simulated via personas), analyze current bottlenecks, propose a st…
- Organizational Design
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Analysis
Principles of Management - StrategyIntermediateNew
Cross-Functional Team Simulation: Launch a Sustainable Energy Subscription Service
Form a team of 4-5 and assign roles: (1) Product Lead — define the subscription tiers and customer experience, (2) Marketing Lead — develop brand positioning and customer acquis…
- Digital Business Models
- Collaborative Work
- Project Management
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Tax Transparency Report for a Renewable Energy Firm
You are a tax and sustainability consultant. Your task is to draft a tax transparency report for SunPower Europe following GRI 207. The report must include a tax strategy statem…
- Gri 207
- Tax Transparency
- Country By Country Reporting
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Zero-Downtime Multi-Region PostgreSQL Migration for an EdTech Platform
Using the infrastructure inventory (infra-inventory), the database schema sample (schema-subset), the workload metrics (workload-metrics), and the service-level brief (sla-brief…
- Blue Green Deployment
- Logical Replication
- Postgresql
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Versioning Strategy for a Public REST API
Receive the OpenAPI spec for the 14 endpoints, 8 months of partner-support tickets tagged 'breaking-change', and the partner-mix breakdown (which endpoints which partner uses). …
- API Design
- REST
- API Versioning
API Design and GraphQL - CodeIntermediateNew
Run a Monte Carlo Tree Search Strategy for a Robotics Pick-and-Place Task
You receive a simulator of the pick-and-place task: a bin with 10 randomly-placed parts, an action space of which part to pick next, and a reward = parts picked per minute with …
- Monte Carlo Tree Search
- Planning
- Simulation
Decision Making Under Uncertainty - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Diagnose a Failed Microservices Migration at a Travel Platform
Using only the four supplied materials — the interview transcript excerpts (voyalink-interview-transcripts), the decision and incident artifact corpus (voyalink-artifact-corpus)…
- Industrial Case Study
- Qualitative Research
- Software Architecture
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design an Upstream Contribution to a CNCF Service-Mesh Project
Using the internal fork dossier (case-file) for the business context, the prior rejection feedback, and the targeted roadmap area, design an upstream contribution that a careful…
- Oss Contribution
- Rfc Design
- Pr Etiquette
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design Multi-Tenant Network Policies with Calico Tier Enforcement
Receive the cluster topology (120 customer namespaces + 4 platform namespaces), the application traffic patterns (frontend talks to backend talks to its tenant's database), and …
- Kubernetes
- Network Policy
- Calico
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - CodeIntermediateNew
Lambda-Calculus Semantic Parser for a Math-Tutor EdTech
Define a small typed lambda-calculus representation for linear equations and a small set of word-problem templates (rate, age, mixture). Build a parser that maps surface express…
- Semantic Parsing
- Lambda Calculus
- Symbolic Reasoning
Computational Semantics - ResearchIntermediateNew
Tune a PPO Policy for an Energy-Storage Trading Bot
You receive 18 months of 15-minute Nordic spot-price data, a battery dynamics model (capacity, round-trip efficiency, degradation curve), and a rule-based baseline that earns ab…
- Policy Gradients
- Ppo
- Reinforcement Learning
Deep Reinforcement Learning
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