ITEE FE case studies
ITEE FE · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination (FE) is one of the national IT examinations administered in Japan by the Innovation Platform Agency (IPA), as the agency's English-language site describes its examination program. The FE is the entry-level credential in that examination family, aimed at people who want to demonstrate foundational knowledge and practical ability across information technology and who intend to work as IT engineers or to strengthen an IT-related career. The ITEE FE case studies are 5 cases and about 3,462 words.
1The Inherited Monitoring Dashboard
You have just joined a 12-person development team responsible for a payment service that processes about 200,000 transactions per day. The team inherited a monitoring dashboard that currently fires roughly 40 alerts per day.
741 words, about 4 min2Choosing a Caching Layer Under Deadline
A product team is building a read-heavy product catalogue API. The database currently handles about 1,200 reads per second at peak, and the team expects traffic to double within six months.
689 words, about 3 min3The Estimation Conflict
A team of six engineers is asked to deliver a feature set for a fixed external launch date in ten weeks. The product manager has already announced the date to a customer.
675 words, about 3 min4Refactoring a Module Nobody Owns
A mid-sized company runs an internal billing service that has grown organically for six years. One module, which calculates proration when customers change plans mid-cycle, is about 4,000 lines long, has no automated tests, and is changed roughly twice a month.
657 words, about 3 min5Deployment Frequency Versus Stability
A team deploys its main service once every two weeks through a manual release process. The process involves a release manager, a change advisory meeting, and a two-hour deployment window on a Thursday evening.
700 words, about 4 min