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

Q2. What is a microservices architecture?

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

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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

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

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Byzantine Fault Tolerance Proof of Work Proof of Stake Raft

Q5. What is serverless computing?

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

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Database querying Writing code Image editing Orchestrating containers

Q7. What is zero-knowledge proof?

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

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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Compute on encrypted data Data compression Faster decryption Hashing

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

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Reduces connection latency Compresses data Increases bandwidth Encrypts files

Q11. What is edge computing?

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

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

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AES RSA Lattice-based SHA-256

Q13. What is sharding in databases?

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Encryption Horizontal database partitioning Vertical partitioning Backup

Q14. What is side-channel attack?

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Direct code injection Network flooding Social engineering Exploits physical leaks

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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Tolerate faulty or malicious nodes Encryption Speed optimization Data compression

Q17. Which framework is for building reactive UIs?

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Spring Flask Django React

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Cloud-only Centralized big data Local only Decentralized ML training

Q21. Which is an example of a service mesh?

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Istio Terraform Kubernetes Docker

Q22. What is differential privacy?

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Full encryption Hashing Access control Protects individual data in aggregates

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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Classical CPU Quantum bits Brain-inspired hardware GPU acceleration

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Network latency Optimizing loops Memory allocation Undecidable program termination