RCW IT Architect Challenge

Production is down.
You own the recovery.

Lead a vendor-neutral response across a hybrid cloud and on-premises application stack. Gather evidence, identify the root cause, execute the approved recovery, and prove that production is healthy.

🚨 PRODUCTION INCIDENT Application unavailable
Users affected
2,400
Revenue impact
$18,000/hour
30:00real countdown
4random incidents
100score potential
INC-PRD-2400SEV-1

Enter the incident bridge

A random outage is assigned when you start. Your name remains in this browser and is used only for the completion certificate.

CONTROL ALIGNMENT

NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3 / CSF 2.0 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 / 27002:2022 incident-management principles.

🚨 PRODUCTION INCIDENT · SEV-1

Application unavailable

TIME TO RECOVER
Users affected2,400active impact
Revenue impact$18,000/hrcurrent hourly exposure
Score potential100/1000 wrong decisions
Response phaseDetectCollect production evidence
Hybrid service map

Production request path

OUTAGE
2,400 usersExternal
DNSCloud edge
Load balancerCloud
App serversCloud
Data clusterOn premises
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTUREON-PREMISES INFRASTRUCTURE
Commander console

Choose your next action

Diagnostics are read-only

Checks are safe. Repeated checks, unsupported diagnoses, and blind restarts consume time, reduce your score, and increase business impact.

Select a diagnostic action to begin.

PRODUCTION RESTORED

Incident resolved, Architect.

You used production evidence to identify the failure, recovered the application with an approved runbook, and verified service health.

Final assessment

Incident commander score

100/100
ARCHITECT LEVEL
Recovery time
00:00
Actions taken
0
Wrong decisions
0
Peak users affected
2,400
Peak revenue risk
$18,000/hr
Incident record

Executive closure report

HEALTHY
IncidentINC-PRD-2400
ArchitectureHybrid cloud / on premises
Confirmed root cause
Recovery actionControlled application service restart and health validation
LESSONS & CONTROL IMPROVEMENT

RCW IT Training achievement

RCW IT Architect certificate

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Production Incident Architect

Your certificate records the final score and successful recovery of the hybrid production service.

Issued by RCW IT Training and signed by Pradeep Raju.
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RECOVERY WINDOW EXPIRED

The incident exceeded 30 minutes.

Production remains unavailable. Review the evidence path, avoid unsupported changes, and try a new incident.

FINAL SCORE0/100