Advanced - Technology and IT Quiz Test

Q1. What is the CAP theorem in distributed systems?

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Database indexing method Always guarantees speed Cannot guarantee all three: Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance Relates to encryption

Q2. What is a microservices architecture?

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Monolithic single application Client-side only Hardware partitioning Loosely coupled independent services

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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Data becomes consistent over time Immediate strong consistency No consistency guaranteed Encrypted data

Q4. Which consensus algorithm is used in blockchain like Bitcoin?

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Raft Proof of Stake Byzantine Fault Tolerance Proof of Work

Q5. What is serverless computing?

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Run code without managing servers Virtual machines No internet required Local hardware only

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Writing code Orchestrating containers Database querying Image editing

Q7. What is zero-knowledge proof?

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Hashing algorithm Prove knowledge without revealing info Full data disclosure Encryption key exchange

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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Phishing SQL injection CA compromise DDoS

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Data compression Hashing Compute on encrypted data Faster decryption

Q10. What does QUIC protocol improve over HTTP/3?

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Increases bandwidth Reduces connection latency Compresses data Encrypts files

Q11. What is edge computing?

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Processing data at the network edge Quantum processing Local storage Central cloud only

Q12. Which is a post-quantum cryptography algorithm candidate?

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Lattice-based SHA-256 AES RSA

Q13. What is sharding in databases?

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Backup Horizontal database partitioning Vertical partitioning Encryption

Q14. What is side-channel attack?

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Network flooding Social engineering Direct code injection Exploits physical leaks

Q15. What does WebAssembly enable?

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JavaScript replacement only Server-side only HTML styling Run compiled code in browsers

Q16. What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance?

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Encryption Speed optimization Data compression Tolerate faulty or malicious nodes

Q17. Which framework is for building reactive UIs?

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Spring Flask Django React

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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Deploying apps Optimizing performance Intentionally causing failures to test resilience Writing code

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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XML and TCP JSON and HTTP/1 Protocol Buffers and HTTP/2 SOAP

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Local only Centralized big data Cloud-only Decentralized ML training

Q21. Which is an example of a service mesh?

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Terraform Docker Istio Kubernetes

Q22. What is differential privacy?

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Full encryption Access control Hashing Protects individual data in aggregates

Q23. What does RISC-V represent?

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Closed proprietary Open ISA for processors Programming language Operating system

Q24. What is neuromorphic computing?

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GPU acceleration Brain-inspired hardware Quantum bits Classical CPU

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Undecidable program termination Memory allocation Network latency Optimizing loops