Advanced - Technology and IT Quiz Test

Q1. What is the CAP theorem in distributed systems?

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

Q2. What is a microservices architecture?

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

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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

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

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Writing code Image editing Orchestrating containers Database querying

Q7. What is zero-knowledge proof?

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

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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Phishing DDoS SQL injection CA compromise

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Faster decryption Hashing Compute on encrypted data Data compression

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

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Reduces connection latency Encrypts files Increases bandwidth Compresses data

Q11. What is edge computing?

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Processing data at the network edge Central cloud only Local storage 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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Horizontal database partitioning Backup Encryption Vertical partitioning

Q14. What is side-channel attack?

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Direct code injection Exploits physical leaks Social engineering Network flooding

Q15. What does WebAssembly enable?

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

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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Spring Django React Flask

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

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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Centralized big data Local only Decentralized ML training Cloud-only

Q21. Which is an example of a service mesh?

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Terraform Istio Docker Kubernetes

Q22. What is differential privacy?

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Protects individual data in aggregates Full encryption Access control Hashing

Q23. What does RISC-V represent?

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Programming language Open ISA for processors Closed proprietary Operating system

Q24. What is neuromorphic computing?

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Classical CPU Quantum bits GPU acceleration Brain-inspired hardware

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Optimizing loops Memory allocation Network latency Undecidable program termination