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

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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Encrypted data Immediate strong consistency 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 Stake Raft Proof of Work

Q5. What is serverless computing?

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

Q6. What is Kubernetes used for?

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Database querying Image editing Writing code Orchestrating containers

Q7. What is zero-knowledge proof?

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

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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SQL injection CA compromise DDoS Phishing

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Data compression Faster decryption Compute on encrypted data Hashing

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

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Reduces connection latency Compresses data Encrypts files Increases bandwidth

Q11. What is edge computing?

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

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

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SHA-256 RSA AES Lattice-based

Q13. What is sharding in databases?

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Horizontal database partitioning Encryption Backup Vertical partitioning

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 HTML styling Server-side only

Q16. What is Byzantine Fault Tolerance?

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Speed optimization Tolerate faulty or malicious nodes Data compression Encryption

Q17. Which framework is for building reactive UIs?

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Django React Flask Spring

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

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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Full encryption Access control Hashing Protects individual data in aggregates

Q23. What does RISC-V represent?

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Open ISA for processors Programming language Closed proprietary Operating system

Q24. What is neuromorphic computing?

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Quantum bits GPU acceleration Brain-inspired hardware Classical CPU

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Optimizing loops Undecidable program termination Network latency Memory allocation