Tier 2 Quiz — AI Agent Design Patterns

01Workers draft replies; you need a referee that can veto unsafe output. Which pattern fits best?

ReAct with a longer system promptSupervisor — route, score, and veto without draftingSequential Pipeline with three free-text stagesMapReduce over the ticket corpus

02Scenario: research docs, blog, and changelog independently, then merge. The branches do not need each other’s results. Pick the pattern.

Sequential Pipeline — stage A must finish before B startsHierarchical Agents — strategy calls tools directlyParallel Fan-Out / Fan-In — dispatch independent branches, then joinDebate — pro and con argue about the docs

03You have one long transcript and want the same extract job on every chunk, then a fold. What do you reach for?

MapReduce — homogeneous map jobs, then reduceDebate — two agents argue about each chunkSupervisor — veto every chunk summaryTool Use alone — one schema, no partitioning

04A single cheerful pass keeps missing rollout risks on a go/no-go call. Which orchestration shape surfaces the downside?

Sequential Pipeline with more stagesDebate / Adversarial — bounded pro/con, then a judgePlan-and-Execute with a longer planParallel Fan-Out of three identical cheerleaders