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 Hardware partitioning Loosely coupled independent services Client-side only

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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Data becomes consistent over time Immediate strong consistency Encrypted data 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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No internet required Virtual machines Local hardware only Run code without managing servers

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Database querying Image editing Writing code Orchestrating containers

Q7. What is zero-knowledge proof?

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

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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SQL injection Phishing DDoS CA compromise

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Data compression Hashing Faster decryption Compute on encrypted data

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

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Increases bandwidth Reduces connection latency Encrypts files Compresses data

Q11. What is edge computing?

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

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

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RSA SHA-256 Lattice-based AES

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 Exploits physical leaks Social engineering Direct code injection

Q15. What does WebAssembly enable?

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

Q16. What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance?

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Tolerate faulty or malicious nodes Encryption Data compression Speed optimization

Q17. Which framework is for building reactive UIs?

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Django Spring Flask React

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Centralized big data Decentralized ML training Local only Cloud-only

Q21. Which is an example of a service mesh?

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Docker Terraform Istio Kubernetes

Q22. What is differential privacy?

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Full encryption Access control Protects individual data in aggregates Hashing

Q23. What does RISC-V represent?

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Programming language Closed proprietary Operating system Open ISA for processors

Q24. What is neuromorphic computing?

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Brain-inspired hardware Classical CPU GPU acceleration Quantum bits

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Undecidable program termination Optimizing loops Memory allocation Network latency