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System designHardsd-p067
Subject Data modelingLevel Senior~45 minCommon in Databases & SQL interviewsIndustries Technology

Question

Design an immutable audit-log system that records every security-relevant action (who did what, when) for compliance, with tamper-evidence and efficient querying.

What a strong answer looks like

Clarify scale and constraints first. Propose a clean component breakdown, then go deep on the hard parts — data model, bottlenecks, consistency, failure modes — and name the trade-offs you are making.

Narrate your design
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Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.