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 Always guarantees speed Cannot guarantee all three: Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance

Q2. What is a microservices architecture?

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

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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

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

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Orchestrating containers Database querying Writing code Image editing

Q7. What is zero-knowledge proof?

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

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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CA compromise Phishing DDoS SQL injection

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Faster decryption Compute on encrypted data Hashing Data compression

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

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

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AES Lattice-based SHA-256 RSA

Q13. What is sharding in databases?

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Backup Vertical partitioning Horizontal database partitioning Encryption

Q14. What is side-channel attack?

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Social engineering Direct code injection Network flooding Exploits physical leaks

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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Speed optimization Encryption Tolerate faulty or malicious nodes Data compression

Q17. Which framework is for building reactive UIs?

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Flask Spring React Django

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Decentralized ML training Centralized big data Cloud-only Local 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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Protects individual data in aggregates Access control Hashing Full encryption

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 Quantum bits GPU acceleration

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Optimizing loops Network latency Undecidable program termination Memory allocation