Test your context engineering knowledge with scenario-based and concept-check questions covering the full curate → plan → build → validate workflow and the seven customization surfaces.
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Course Quiz
18 questions · Graded
Choose the best answer for each question. You need 80% to pass.
Q1.What is the core thesis of context engineering in this course?
Q2.What is the best first step for a repository with no Copilot customization yet?
Q3.How do path-specific instructions normally activate?
Q4.What is the strongest reason to separate planning from implementation?
Q5.Which role should usually be read-only?
Q6.What is the practical value of agent skills?
Q7.When should you choose a hook instead of an instruction?
Q8.What is the portability-first design rule?
Q9.What makes context engineering an operating model rather than a setup task?
Q10.What is the progressive complexity principle?
Q11.Which pair forms the shared project context foundation?
Q12.Which statement best describes the capstone delivery loop?
Q13.Which three surfaces does Copilot Chat in the GitHub.com web interface currently support?
Q14.What is the role of '/docs/' in context engineering, compared to '.github/'?
Q15.A team's copilot-instructions.md has grown to 500 lines. Which anti-pattern is this, and what is the recommended fix?
Q16.In the three-axis context model, which axis do .prompt.md files occupy?
Q17.You need to ensure that no AI agent can ever write to the '/migrations/' directory. Which approach provides the strongest guarantee?
Q18.What are the four phases of the delivery loop that the capstone lesson synthesizes?
