Domain 1Cowork Foundations & Agentic Architecture
Parallel Execution
TL;DR
The ability for Cowork to process multiple independent tasks simultaneously using sub-agents.
Definition
The ability for Cowork to process multiple independent tasks simultaneously using sub-agents. Parallelism works best for batch file processing, multi-document research, and data extraction from many sources. It fails when tasks have sequential dependencies — when Step 2 requires the completed output of Step 1.
Exam Context
Questions test whether you can identify genuinely independent tasks suitable for parallelism versus tasks with sequential dependencies that must run in order.