Functional requirements (FR)

• Manage users, content, assessments, attempts, and results required by the prompt.
• Support discovery, access, progress tracking, and resume behavior where relevant.
• Apply scoring, eligibility, timing, ranking, and content ownership rules.
• Notify learners or content owners about meaningful state changes.

Non-functional requirements (NFR)

• Preserve assessment integrity and prevent unauthorized access to questions or results.
• Handle concurrent sessions and peak submission traffic without losing completed work.
• Define result accuracy, availability, and reporting freshness targets.
• Support accessibility, auditability, and privacy requirements for learner data.

Principal-level discussion

• Define the scale, success measures, and operational ownership before committing to an architecture.
• Compare at least two viable approaches and explain the trade-offs, migration path, and failure behavior.
• Identify the riskiest assumptions and how you would validate them with data or a staged rollout.