# Readiness Check: Are You Actually Ready?

This isn't a graded quiz — it's a genuine self-assessment before you attempt something you can't
easily "retry with different answers memorized." Answer each honestly.

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**1. Can you explain, without looking it up, the difference between a liveness probe and a
readiness probe, and diagnose which one is failing from `kubectl get pods` output alone?**

*If no:* revisit ROOT 10's gold-standard Health Probes module before attempting the Capstone —
this exact distinction shows up in Real Ops-style incidents.

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**2. Given a Service with zero Endpoints, do you know the first two commands you'd run to find
out why, without being told which module this relates to?**

*If no:* revisit ROOT 07's Services & Service Discovery module.

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**3. Can you apply the Observe → Evidence → Hypothesis → Test → Repair → Validate → Prevent
framework to an unfamiliar failure you've never specifically seen before, not just to the exact
examples from the lesson?**

*If no:* this is worth practicing deliberately — pick any Practice-tab scenario you haven't done
yet and narrate the framework out loud to yourself while solving it.

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**4. Have you completed the Real Ops incidents in ROOT 12 for real — diagnosed and repaired
them yourself, not looked up the answer?**

*If no:* do this before attempting the Capstone. The required scenarios in every Capstone
attempt are drawn from exactly this style of incident.

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**5. Do you have a rough time-budget plan for a 90-minute, multi-scenario attempt?**

*If no:* re-read the time-management lesson in this module before you begin.

## What to do if you answered "no" to more than one

That's genuinely useful information, not a failure — it tells you specifically where to spend
your remaining prep time. Go back to the relevant module, do the work for real, and come back
to this check again before attempting the Capstone.

## Instructor Notes

**Facilitation:** In a live classroom, this works well as private/individual reflection rather
than a group discussion — the value is honest self-assessment, not a public performance.

**Approximate timing:** 5-8 minutes.

**Expected takeaway:** Readiness is something a student can genuinely self-assess against
concrete, specific criteria — not a vague feeling of confidence.