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

Q3. What does eventual consistency mean?

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

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

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Raft Proof of Work Proof of Stake Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Q5. What is serverless computing?

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

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

Q8. Which attack exploits trust in certificate authorities?

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Phishing SQL injection DDoS CA compromise

Q9. What is homomorphic encryption?

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Data compression Compute on encrypted data Hashing Faster decryption

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

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Encrypts files Increases bandwidth Compresses data Reduces connection latency

Q11. What is edge computing?

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

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

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RSA AES Lattice-based SHA-256

Q13. What is sharding in databases?

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Encryption Horizontal database partitioning Backup 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 Run compiled code in browsers JavaScript replacement only Server-side only

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 Spring Django Flask

Q18. What is chaos engineering?

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

Q19. What does gRPC use for communication?

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

Q20. What is federated learning?

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Centralized big data Cloud-only Decentralized ML training Local only

Q21. Which is an example of a service mesh?

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Kubernetes Istio Docker Terraform

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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Open ISA for processors Programming language Operating system Closed proprietary

Q24. What is neuromorphic computing?

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Brain-inspired hardware Quantum bits Classical CPU GPU acceleration

Q25. What is the halting problem?

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Undecidable program termination Network latency Memory allocation Optimizing loops