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IT Developer - Digital Skill Cup 2026

Digital Skills Cup 2026

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Question 1

Which Azure service provides fully managed Kubernetes orchestration?

Azure Container Instances

Azure DevOps

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Service Fabric

Question 2

When using AI in software development, which practice helps ensure code quality and security?

Accepting AI-generated code without review

Manual code review and automated testing

Disabling static analysis tools

Running code only in production

Question 3

What problem does dependency injection primarily solve?

Code duplication

Tight coupling between components

Memory leaks

Network latency

Question 4

What is the purpose of a load balancer in a web application?

To store data

To distribute network traffic

To secure the application

To monitor performance

Question 5

Which testing approach best helps developers detect regressions quickly while allowing safe refactoring?

Relying only on manual exploratory tests

Writing suite of automated unit tests and running them in CI on each commit

Running performance tests only before major releases

Using code reviews instead of any automated tests

Question 6

When containerizing an application with Docker, which practice improves image security and size?

Using a generic full OS image with all tools installed

Running the application as root inside container

Using a minimal base image and multi stage builds for compilation

Embedding secrets directly into the Docker file as environment variables

Question 7

Which AWS service provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud?

Amazon S3

Amazon RDS

Amazon EC2

AWS Lambda

Question 8

In a microservices architecture, which pattern is most appropriate for decoupled, asynchronous communication between services?

Direct synchronous HTTP calls between all services

Shared database used by all services

Message broker with publish/subscribe or queues

Writing shared state to a local file system

Question 9

Which AI technique is primarily used for predicting numerical values?

Classification

Regression

Clustering

Reinforcement Learning

Question 10

What is the main advantage of using dependency injection in software design?

It reduces the need for unit testing

It makes classes more dependent on each other

It eliminates the need for interfaces

It promotes loose coupling between components

Question 11

Which HTTP method is typically used to update an existing resource in a REST API?

GET

POST

PUT

DELETE

Question 12

What does CI/CD primarily enable in .NET development?

Manual deployments

Faster and reliable builds and deployments

Less testing

Longer release cycles

Question 13

Immutability in functional programming makes concurrent programming safer.

Yes

No

Question 14

Which logging practice best supports debugging in a distributed microservices environment?

Logging only generic error occurred messages

Logging everything at DEBUG level in production

Writing logs to local disk only without aggregation

Including correlation or trace Ids in logs across services

Question 15

What is “refactoring”?

Rewriting the entire application from scratch

Improving code structure without changing behavior

Translating code to another language

Fixing bugs that cause crashes

Question 16

Which C# collection ensures all elements are unique?

List

Array

Dictionary

HashSet

Question 17

Which of these technologies belong to the field of containerization or orchestration?

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Helm

Question 18

In agile development, what is a “sprint”?

A security test

A short, focused period of work

A documentation session

A deployment cycle

Question 19

What is the purpose of REST APIs?

UI creation

Load balancing

System communication

Encrypt data

Question 20

In object-oriented programming, what does encapsulation achieve?

It allows multiple inheritance

It enables polymorphism

It hides the internal state and requires all interaction to be performed through methods

It improves runtime performance

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