Advanced - Technology and IT Quiz Test

Q1. What is the CAP theorem in distributed systems?

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

Q2. What is a microservices architecture?

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

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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

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

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Proof of Stake Proof of Work Raft Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Q5. What is serverless computing?

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

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Orchestrating containers Writing code Database querying Image editing

Q7. What is zero-knowledge proof?

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

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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Phishing CA compromise SQL injection DDoS

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Compute on encrypted data Hashing Data compression Faster decryption

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

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Compresses data Increases bandwidth Reduces connection latency Encrypts files

Q11. What is edge computing?

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

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

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SHA-256 RSA Lattice-based AES

Q13. What is sharding in databases?

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Encryption Backup Vertical partitioning Horizontal database partitioning

Q14. What is side-channel attack?

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Exploits physical leaks Social engineering Direct code injection Network flooding

Q15. What does WebAssembly enable?

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

Q16. What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance?

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Tolerate faulty or malicious nodes Speed optimization Data compression Encryption

Q17. Which framework is for building reactive UIs?

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Django React Flask Spring

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Cloud-only Decentralized ML training Local only Centralized big data

Q21. Which is an example of a service mesh?

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Istio Terraform Docker Kubernetes

Q22. What is differential privacy?

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Hashing Access control Protects individual data in aggregates Full encryption

Q23. What does RISC-V represent?

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Operating system Programming language Closed proprietary Open ISA for processors

Q24. What is neuromorphic computing?

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GPU acceleration Quantum bits Classical CPU Brain-inspired hardware

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Network latency Memory allocation Optimizing loops Undecidable program termination