Technical practice
How would you capture an AI use case during a client workshop?
What to coverRole basis: The posting calls for documenting project objectives, user needs, data needs and feasibility for senior-team review. Suggested preparation: explain the questions you would ask and how you would record open assumptions rather than treating them as agreed requirements.
How would you help prioritize several proposed AI use cases?
What to coverRole basis: The role helps align use cases with business objectives and assess functional and technical feasibility. Suggested preparation: compare expected value, user need, data availability and constraints, while explaining what evidence you would need before recommending a priority.
When might generative AI be appropriate for a business need?
What to coverRole basis: Understanding GenAI and ML fundamentals and their business applications is required. Suggested preparation: distinguish generative from other ML applications at a basic level, and discuss the trade-off between useful outputs and the need to evaluate their reliability.
How would you test an assumption with data exploration or a lightweight proof of concept?
What to coverRole basis: The posting emphasizes checking data availability, exploring constraints and seeking to disprove assumptions through experimentation. Suggested preparation: define the assumption, a small test and a decision criterion, then explain how you would document inconclusive or negative findings.
How would you turn a business need into a testable user story?
What to coverRole basis: The role drafts user stories and acceptance criteria and helps keep requirements clear and traceable. Suggested preparation: show how you would link the story to a user need, specify observable acceptance criteria and validate the wording with stakeholders.
How would you identify functional and non-functional requirements for an AI solution?
What to coverRole basis: The posting asks for business, user, functional and non-functional requirements that are concise and testable. Suggested preparation: distinguish what the solution must do from constraints on how well it must work, and explain how you would resolve an ambiguous requirement before development.
How would you help plan and record functional testing?
What to coverRole basis: The role assists with test plans, test execution and capturing outcomes against functional requirements. Suggested preparation: describe deriving test cases from acceptance criteria, recording expected and actual outcomes, and escalating a mismatch for review.
How would you translate a client request into a specification for a technical team?
What to coverRole basis: The consultant assists as a liaison between functional and development teams. Suggested preparation: describe clarifying workflow, users, data and constraints, then checking the resulting specification with both teams before treating it as agreed.
How would you assess a Microsoft AI or Power Platform option for a use case?
What to coverRole basis: Basic familiarity with Azure AI and Power Platform is required; other Microsoft AI tools and prompt engineering are listed as preferred familiarity. Suggested preparation: explain how you would compare an option against the use case, available data and technical constraints without assuming any particular tool is mandated.
How would you support effort estimates when an AI project's scope is uncertain?
What to coverRole basis: The posting calls for team-based estimates, iterative early-stage AI work, and tracking tasks and timelines. Suggested preparation: discuss breaking work into testable steps, stating assumptions and revisiting estimates as proof-of-concept findings emerge.
Behavioural practice
Tell me about a time you clarified an ambiguous request with a stakeholder.
What to coverRole basis: The role relies on requirements gathering and validation to reduce ambiguity. Suggested preparation: use situation, action and result to show what you asked, how you confirmed shared understanding and what changed.
Describe a time you helped business and technical colleagues reach a shared understanding.
What to coverRole basis: Productive collaboration across business and development teams is a stated measure of success. Suggested preparation: give the situation, your actions to translate or reconcile different perspectives, and the result.
Tell me about a time evidence challenged an initial project assumption.
What to coverRole basis: The posting values data exploration and attempts to disprove assumptions during early solution work. Suggested preparation: explain the situation, how you investigated and communicated the finding, and the resulting decision.
Describe a time you communicated a project risk or delay.
What to coverRole basis: The role assists with tracking timelines and reporting status and risks to stakeholders. Suggested preparation: give the situation, your actions to make the risk clear and seek help or options, and the result.
Tell me about a time you learned a new technical concept and shared it with others.
What to coverRole basis: The posting emphasizes learning in the evolving AI landscape and supporting training or knowledge sharing. Suggested preparation: use situation, action and result to show how you checked your understanding, adapted your explanation to the audience and assessed whether it helped.