Practice the key verb+noun collocations used when preventing incidents, identifying risks, and building resilient systems in English.
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Fill in: 'Good on-call hygiene and observability tooling help us ___ incidents before they escalate.'
We 'prevent incidents' — 'prevent' is the standard SRE collocation for proactively reducing the probability of outages. 'Avoid incidents' is acceptable but sounds reactive; 'stop incidents' implies halting ongoing ones; 'block incidents' is not idiomatic.
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Fill in: 'During the threat modelling session, we were able to ___ several risks in the payment flow.'
We 'identify risk' — 'identify' is the formal collocation for recognising and naming specific risks during a structured analysis. 'Find risk' is informal; 'spot' implies accidental discovery; 'discover' is also informal and suggests surprise.
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Fill in: 'After the post-mortem, we agreed to ___ safeguards like circuit breakers and rate limiting.'
We 'implement safeguards' — 'implement' is the engineering collocation for building and deploying protective measures. 'Add safeguards' is informal; 'introduce' is slightly more formal but less technical; 'install' is used for software packages, not design patterns.
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Fill in: 'We regularly ___ failure scenarios in staging to ensure our systems recover gracefully.'
We 'test failure scenarios' — 'test' is the general SRE collocation for systematically verifying that systems behave correctly under failure conditions. 'Simulate' is more specific to synthetic environments; 'run failure scenarios' is also used; 'inject' refers to chaos engineering's fault-injection technique.
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Fill in: 'Every quarter, we ___ game days to practice our incident response playbooks.'
We 'run game days' — 'run game days' is the established SRE collocation for executing simulated incident drills. 'Hold game days' collocates with meetings; 'conduct game days' is formal; 'organise game days' focuses on scheduling, not execution.