ADETEC
  • 1. What does software documentation refer to?
A) Only the source code of the software
B) Written text and illustrations describing architecture, design, functionality, and usage
C) Helps new team members onboard quickly
  • 2. In API endpoint descriptions, what information must be clearly stated?
A) Only the HTTP methods
B) Only the description of what the endpoint does
C) Purpose, expected behavior, URL route, and HTTP methods
  • 3. Which HTTP methods are commonly listed in endpoint descriptions?
A) GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
B) START, STOP, PAUSE, RESUME
C) OPEN, CLOSE, SAVE, LOAD
  • 4. Which of the following is a best practice for code documentation?
A) Using inline comments to explain complex logic
B) Adding redundant comments that restate obvious code
C) Avoiding any comments in the code
  • 5. What are docstrings used for?
A) Standardized descriptions for functions, classes, or modules
B) . To store data in the program
C) To debug the code
  • 6. Which convention is followed for Python docstrings?
A) HTML format
B) PEP 257
C) Javadoc style
  • 7. Which tool is commonly used for code documentation in C/C++, Java, and Python?
A) Javadoc
B) Confluence
C) Doxygen
  • 8. What is the purpose of Sphinx?
A) To compile code into executable files
B) To design user interfaces
C) To generate structured documentation from reStructuredText and docstrings
  • 9. Which open-source license is very permissive and allows reuse with attribution?
A) Creative Commons
B) MIT License
C) Apache License 2.0
  • 10. Which license allows modifications, requires attribution, and includes patent rights?
A) Creative Commons
B) MIT License
C) Apache License 2.0
  • 11. Creative Commons (CC) licenses are typically used for:
A) Software only
B) Hardware designs
C) Media and documents, not software
  • 12. Why is licensing important?
A) It is not necessary for open-source projects
B) It protects intellectual property and clarifies usage rights
C) It makes the software harder to use
  • 13. What is reliability in software design?
A) The ability to perform required functions under stated conditions without failure
B) The ability to be easily modified
C) The ability to handle unexpected inputs without crashing
  • 14. Which technique involves duplicating critical components to ensure fault tolerance?
A) Error Detection & Correction
B) Redundancy
C) Recovery Mechanisms
  • 15. What is used to detect data errors in software?
A) Redundancy
B) Check sums, parity bits, and validation rules
C) Automated testing
  • 16. Which type of testing ensures correctness through unit, integration, and regression tests?
A) User acceptance testing
B) Performance testing
C) Automated testing
  • 17. Which of the following is a recovery mechanism?
A) Checkpointing and rollback in databases
B) Using parity bits
C) Duplicating servers
  • 18. What is the main goal of following software documentation standards?
A) To avoid following any conventions
B) To ensure code and systems are clear, maintainable, and legally safe
C) To increase the number of tools used
  • 19. Which tool is used for interactive API documentation with live testing capabilities?
A) Swagger / OpenAPI
B) RAML
C) Postman
  • 20. What is the primary use of Postman?
A) API testing and documentation
B) Creating documentation websites
C) Designing API schemas
  • 21. Which of the following are API design and documentation languages?
A) Swagger and OpenAPI
B) Redoc and MkDocs
C) RAML and API Blueprint
  • 22. Which tool is described as a modern, clean API documentation generator?
A) Redoc
B) Sphinx
C) Postman
  • 23. Which field in an API error response provides a human-readable explanation of the issue?
A) status
B) message
C) parameters
  • 24. Which parameter represents the minimum daily temperature in API responses?
A) daily.temp.max
B) daily.feels_like
C) daily.temp.min
  • 25. What is the definition of efficiency in software design?
A) Ability to handle unexpected inputs without crashing
B) Ability to duplicate critical components
C) Optimal use of resources (time, memory, CPU) while delivering results quickly
  • 26. Recovery mechanisms include:
A) Checkpointing and rollback in databases, retry logic
B) Duplicating critical components
C) Using parity bits to detect errors
  • 27. Which example illustrates improving efficiency through algorithm choice?
A) Adding more servers
B) Using linear search instead of binary search B. Using binary search instead of linear search for larg
C) Using binary search instead of linear search for large datasets
  • 28. What is the definition of efficiency in software design?
A) Ability to duplicate critical components for fault tolerance
B) Optimal use of resources (time, memory, CPU, network) while delivering results quickly
C) Ability to perform functions without failure over time
  • 29. Which strategy involves choosing algorithms with better time complexity like O(log n) over O(n²)?
A) Caching & Memoization
B) Algorithmic Optimization
C) Database Optimization
  • 30. What is the purpose of code profiling?
A) To use multithreading
B) To avoid memory leaks
C) To identify performance bottlenecks using tools
  • 31. Which technique stores results of expensive computations to avoid reprocessing?
A) Caching & Memoization
B) Resource Management
C) Caching & Memoization
  • 32. What does resource management focus on?
A) Testing edge cases
B) Handling exceptions
C) Avoiding memory leaks and releasing unused objects
  • 33. Which approach uses multithreading and asynchronous programming to improve performance?
A) Algorithmic Optimization
B) Database Optimization
C) Parallelism & Concurrency
  • 34. Database optimization includes which of the following?
A) Exception handling
B) Indexing, query optimization, and normalization/denormalization trade-offs
C) Caching all data
  • 35. What is unit testing?
A) Testing after full integration
B) Testing individual units of code (functions, classes, methods) in isolation
C) Testing only the user interface
  • 36. Which of the following is a benefit of unit testing?
A) Increases development time significantly
B) Makes code harder to modify
C) Improves code maintainability and reduces regression issues
  • 37. What is Continuous Integration (CI)?
A) Working on code in isolation without sharing
B) Testing only once before release
C) Frequently integrating code into a shared repository and running automated tests
  • 38. What is the main goal of Continuous Integration?
A) To ensure new code does not break existing functionality
B) To reduce the number of tests
C) To delay integration until the end
  • 39. What is the definition of robustness in software design?
A) Ability to use resources optimallyWhich practice involves never trusting user input and checking ranges, types, and formats?
B) Ability to handle unexpected situations gracefully without crashing or incorrect results
C) Ability to recover from failures automatically
  • 40. Which practice involves never trusting user input and checking ranges, types, and formats?
A) Exception Handling
B) Input Validation
C) Fail-Safe Defaults
  • 41. What is boundary testing?
A) Testing minimum, maximum, and out-of-range values
B) Using try/except blocks
C) Testing only valid inputs
  • 42. Which programming constructs are used for proper exception handling in Python?
A) try/except
B) loops
C) if/else
  • 43. What are fail-safe defaults?
A) Defaulting to secure/safe behavior if inputs are invalid
B) Showing technical errors to users
C) Allowing any input without checks
  • 44. What is defensive programming?
A) Anticipating and guarding against potential failures
B) Writing complex code to prevent errors
C) Avoiding any error handling
  • 45. What are assertions & contracts used for?
A) To retry failed operations
B) To define preconditions, postconditions, and invariants
C) To log runtime information
  • 46. What is retry logic?
A) Automatically retrying operations like API calls if they fail
B) Stopping the system on failure
C) Ignoring failed operations
  • 47. What is the purpose of logging & monitoring?
A) To speed up the code
B) To prevent errors from happening
C) To collect runtime information for debugging and failure analysis
  • 48. What is automated recovery?
A) Ignoring failures
B) Implementing watchdogs or self-healing services
C) Manually fixing errors
  • 49. Which testing framework is used for Python?
A) JUnit
B) pytest
C) Jest
  • 50. Which of the following is an example of robust code?
A) Code that does not have any error handling
B) A login form that handles incorrect passwords gracefully without crashing
C) Code that only works with perfect inputs
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