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 Always guarantees speed Database indexing method

Q2. What is a microservices architecture?

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

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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

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

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Proof of Stake Raft Proof of Work Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Q5. What is serverless computing?

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

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Database querying Writing code Orchestrating containers Image editing

Q7. What is zero-knowledge proof?

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

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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DDoS SQL injection CA compromise Phishing

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Data compression Hashing Compute on encrypted data Faster decryption

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

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Reduces connection latency Encrypts files Compresses data Increases bandwidth

Q11. What is edge computing?

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

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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Encryption Vertical partitioning Backup Horizontal database partitioning

Q14. What is side-channel attack?

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Exploits physical leaks Direct code injection Social engineering Network flooding

Q15. What does WebAssembly enable?

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

Q16. What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance?

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Data compression Encryption Tolerate faulty or malicious nodes Speed optimization

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Cloud-only Local only Decentralized ML training Centralized big data

Q21. Which is an example of a service mesh?

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Istio Kubernetes Terraform Docker

Q22. What is differential privacy?

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Full encryption Access control Hashing Protects individual data in aggregates

Q23. What does RISC-V represent?

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Operating system Programming language Closed proprietary 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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Memory allocation Network latency Undecidable program termination Optimizing loops