Graduation claim audit and independent defense
This required 18–26-hour integrated package strengthens the existing guided labs. Allocation: lessons/predictions 4–6 hours, audit/review 9–13, assessment/repair 5–7. Author estimates require learner timing pilots and are included in the semester workload contract. Reuse the same service and evidence; avoid creating a second portfolio.
Prerequisite bridge
Bring the preceding module's implementation, risk record and failure observations. Separate assumptions, model results and actual runtime evidence. Review the specific prerequisite named in each lesson before its exercise. Missing runtime tools leave execution evidence pending; a written prediction is not an executed experiment.
Lesson sequence
- Match the strength of each public claim to its evidence.
- Close reviewer findings with evidence.
- Choose specialization from demonstrated gaps.
Integrated experiment
Complete the original claim ledger, public-safe case study, recorded defense and credible external review. Add a claim-status audit and evidence-based finding closure. In the ten-minute walkthrough, show one success, one failure and one limitation. Follow it with questions selected by the reviewer; do not prewrite every response. Finish the specialization plan only after unresolved core gates are explicit.
Complete the assessment. Original guided labs, security controls, deployment/testing and peer requirements remain mandatory. Use synthetic data and a disposable local environment where supported; no cloud purchase is required by this extension.
Selective resources
Google code review guidance; Staff Engineer guides. Revisit the degree’s assessment and integrity rules; no new required book.