Advanced - Technology and IT Quiz Test

Q1. What is the CAP theorem in distributed systems?

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

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 No consistency guaranteed Encrypted data Immediate strong consistency

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

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Byzantine Fault Tolerance Proof of Work Raft Proof of Stake

Q5. What is serverless computing?

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

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 Encryption key exchange Full data disclosure Prove knowledge without revealing info

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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DDoS SQL injection Phishing CA compromise

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Compute on encrypted data Data compression Hashing Faster decryption

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

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Encrypts files Reduces connection latency Compresses data Increases bandwidth

Q11. What is edge computing?

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

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

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AES Lattice-based RSA SHA-256

Q13. What is sharding in databases?

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Backup Encryption Horizontal database partitioning Vertical partitioning

Q14. What is side-channel attack?

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Network flooding Social engineering Exploits physical leaks 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 Speed optimization Encryption Data compression

Q17. Which framework is for building reactive UIs?

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React Spring Django Flask

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Centralized big data Local only Cloud-only Decentralized ML training

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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Closed proprietary Programming language Open ISA for processors Operating system

Q24. What is neuromorphic computing?

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GPU acceleration Quantum bits Brain-inspired hardware Classical CPU

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Network latency Memory allocation Undecidable program termination Optimizing loops