Your question is Prepare for Traffic Spike. Take a moment with it on the right.
Talk me through your thinking if you like. When you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes).
How would you prepare a site if you were expecting a huge spike in traffic (e.g. the week before the Super Bowl)?
Asked in the technical (Linux/troubleshooting) stage. Open-ended capacity planning.
Explain how you would forecast demand, identify bottlenecks, prepare infrastructure, validate readiness, and operate the site during the event. Cover dependencies, graceful degradation, monitoring, incident response, and rollback decisions.