API BASICS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
An API is the machine equivalent to a: - ANSWER User Interface
What is a common usage of APIs? - ANSWER Ordering groceries for your home, & Displaying restaurant
reviews based on your location
To retrieve, submit, update, or delete data in a data store you must use HTTP verbs. What are the names
of those verbs, respectively? - ANSWER GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
What is abstraction? - ANSWER A way for applications to retrieve data without having to directly engage
with the source system's logic
True or false: When creating APIs you are limited to one application per endpoint. - ANSWER False
What is a streaming API? - ANSWER A type of API that sends data to the consuming application as soon
as that data is updated or becomes available.
WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
An API is the machine equivalent to a: - ANSWER User Interface
What is a common usage of APIs? - ANSWER Ordering groceries for your home, & Displaying restaurant
reviews based on your location
To retrieve, submit, update, or delete data in a data store you must use HTTP verbs. What are the names
of those verbs, respectively? - ANSWER GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
What is abstraction? - ANSWER A way for applications to retrieve data without having to directly engage
with the source system's logic
True or false: When creating APIs you are limited to one application per endpoint. - ANSWER False
What is a streaming API? - ANSWER A type of API that sends data to the consuming application as soon
as that data is updated or becomes available.
