Consistency Model Trade-offs Quiz

Quiz covering Replication Strategy

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1. 1

   Which consistency model provides the strongest guarantee that all reads will return the most recent write across all nodes?

2. 2

   In a distributed system, what is the primary trade-off when choosing between strong consistency and high availability during a network partition?

3. 3

   A social media application allows users to post comments. Users expect that if they post a comment, they should see it immediately, but it is acceptable if other users see it a few seconds later. Which consistency model is most appropriate?

4. 4

   If a system guarantees that if process A tells process B that it has updated a data item, then process B's subsequent accesses will return the updated value, which model is being described?

5. 5

   In a multi-leader replication setup, you observe that different nodes return different values for the same key even after a significant period of inactivity. Which mechanism is required to resolve these conflicts in an eventually consistent system?