Incident Severity Classification and Escalation Questions
Assigning severity to incidents, deciding when and whom to page, and moving an issue up defined escalation paths. Covers severity matrices, escalation criteria, triage decisions, and scope-of-authority calls about when to pull in more responders or leadership. The routing and prioritization discipline that sits at the front of the incident lifecycle.
You're on-call and must decide whether to escalate a Sev1 incident to the broader incident response team and execs or handle it within your squad. Provide objective criteria you would use to escalate, and give two concrete examples (one that you would escalate, one you'd handle locally).
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