KytKatApi
API Mastery Quiz
Test your knowledge of APIs with our challenging quiz! This quiz is designed for developers, tech enthusiasts, and anyone interested in understanding the fundamentals of Application Programming Interfaces.
- 37 Multiple Choice Questions
- Covering various aspects of APIs
- Ideal for self-assessment or learning
What is the purpose of an API ?
To track activity on a website
To add new features to an application
To simplify programming
To protect and secure a website
A user is trying to access an administrator ressource, which http code should I return ?
403 Forbidden
418 I’m a teapot
404 Not found
401 Unauthorized
Which API is the youngest ?
REST
SOAP
Which formatted data is usually returned by API ?
XML
PDF
JSON
PNG
In the late 80s what permitted a major leap in the history of the API ?
Object Oriented Programming
TCP/IP
World Wide Web
Cryptoanalysis
Which tool may be useful to build complex API requests ?
Postman
Gimp
Pycharm
GIT
What is the purpose of XML in a web service ?
It has no purpose
Transmitting the data
Tagging and/or formatting the date
Securing the data
It is possible to write data to API’s with an HTTP GET-request methods
True
False
What does an API gateway help to ensure ?
It helps ti ensure all these things
High availability
Elastic scalability
Great performance
In the URL “http...com/1.1/search/tweets.json”, what is the endpoint ?
There is no endpoint
Api.twitter.com
Tweets.json
/1.1/...
New technologies (like GraphQL) can empower API consumers to do things previously unimagined
True
False
Wich API design is the most used by all public APIs ?
REST
SOAP
What is the opposite of microservices ?
Sesivrecircim
Monolith
SOAPs
RESTs
Wich one is not a feature of web services ?
It is tied to an operating system and a programming language
It uses a standardized XML messaging system
It is discoverable via a simple find mechanism
A single API can have multiple implementation
True
False
Many APIs use microservices
True
False
Which statement is true ?
Developers may craft API by reverse-engineering the aplication
All these statements are true ?
Developers can access the same storage infrastructure that amazon uses
Developers can use API integration to create their own application
APIs are typically categorized as either ?
HTTP or FTP
GET or POST
SOAP or REST
HTTP or REST
API can generally return data in only one specific format
True
False
API is a kind of …
Waiter
Builder
Driver
Cooker
SOAP is powerful because it is independent of any specific transport layer
True
False
APIs are linked to
HTTP requests method
TCP/IP protocols
None of these things
DNS record types
APIs allows systems to …
Communicate with each others
Interact with each other
Protect themselves from each other
Remain invisible from each other
My APIs is actually public and I want to make it private, how do I do this ?
I host my API in local only
By using API keys
By checking the client’s IP
Which two things are allowed by APIs ?
Access an application’s code
Access an application’s data
Use an application’s functionality
Secure an application
Which API design is more flexible ?
SOAP
REST
In a GraphQL API, you must be careful with overfetching and underfecthing.
True
False
While creating an API, choosing between SOAP and REST should be based on
The requirements of the application
The environment you’re in to
The programming language you use
All these things
What can developers create with the Google Maps APIs gaming offering
An engaging game in the real world
All of these things can be created
Game experiences at a global scale
An entire fictional game world
Who defined the REST language ?
Roy Fielding
James Higginbotham
Dave Winer & Don Box
Tim Berners Lee
Many microservices use APIs
True
False
Which architectural style breaks the functionnality into smaller fragments
SOAP API architecture
Microservices architecture
None of them
REST API architecture
HTTP stands for :
Hyper Text Transfer Protoco
High Transmission Text Protocol
High telecommunication Transfer Protoco
Harold Tim Terry & Patrick (the designers/creators of HTTP)
Helix Technical Transmission Patterns
API can generally return data in only one specific format
True
False
Which API design is the fastest ?
REST
SOAP
API stands for...
Application Program Interface
Application Protocol Interaction
Nothing
Absolute Ping Invocation
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