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