Assessments
Three ways to check what landed, in increasing order of how much they ask of you.
| Page | What it tests | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Final exam | Reasoning across all seventeen steps — 17 step questions plus 3 anti-pattern scenarios, answer key behind one fold at the bottom. | Having read the course. |
| Capstone rubric | A finished Project 8 submission, scored against seven criteria with two of them acting as gates. | Having built the capstone. |
| Graph Ready certification | A real system, against the seven-item checklist. Pass is seven of seven. | Having shipped something. |
The exam and the rubric can be taken in either order. The certification is different in kind: it asks you to point at structures in a system that actually runs, and the honest answer for a system that does not yet exist is that it is not ready, rather than a lower score.