Top REST API interview questions

Top REST API interview questions

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Here are list of top interview questions on REST API that one should know. Please feel to comment if any other question deserve a place in this list, So that I will update post.

Before going to answer for below questions, it is highly recommended to know about what is API?

  1. What do you understand by REST?

  2. Explain the RESTFUL webservice.

  3. What is a Resource in REST and how to represent a Resource?

  4. What is URI?

  5. What are the key characteristics of RESTful Web Services?

  6. What are the best practices to design a resource representation?

  7. What are the core components of a HTTP Request?

  8. What is the concept of statelessness in REST?

  9. What are the HTTP methods that are supported by REST?

  10. What are HTTP Status codes?

  11. What are the core components of HTTP Request/Response?

  12. What are disadvantages of RESTful web services?

  13. Differentiate between SOAP and REST?

  14. How we can version a REST API and different ways?

  15. What are the best practices to be followed while designing a secure RESTFUL web service?

  16. What is JAX-RS?

  17. What is Caching in REST API?

  18. Is it possible to send payload in the GET and DELETE methods?

  19. How does HTTP Basic Authentication work?

  20. What are the disadvantages of statelessness in RESTFUL Webservices?

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