Advanced - Technology and IT Quiz Test

Q1. What is the CAP theorem in distributed systems?

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

Q2. What is a microservices architecture?

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

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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

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

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Byzantine Fault Tolerance Raft Proof of Stake Proof of Work

Q5. What is serverless computing?

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

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Image editing Orchestrating containers Writing code Database querying

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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CA compromise SQL injection DDoS Phishing

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Hashing Compute on encrypted data Data compression Faster decryption

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

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Encrypts files Compresses data Reduces connection latency Increases bandwidth

Q11. What is edge computing?

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

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

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RSA Lattice-based SHA-256 AES

Q13. What is sharding in databases?

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Vertical partitioning Encryption Backup Horizontal database partitioning

Q14. What is side-channel attack?

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Direct code injection Network flooding Exploits physical leaks Social engineering

Q15. What does WebAssembly enable?

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

Q16. What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance?

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Speed optimization Tolerate faulty or malicious nodes Data compression Encryption

Q17. Which framework is for building reactive UIs?

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React Django Spring Flask

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Local only Decentralized ML training Cloud-only Centralized big data

Q21. Which is an example of a service mesh?

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Kubernetes Istio Terraform Docker

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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Open ISA for processors Programming language Operating system Closed proprietary

Q24. What is neuromorphic computing?

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Brain-inspired hardware Quantum bits Classical CPU GPU acceleration

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Optimizing loops Memory allocation Undecidable program termination Network latency