API Gateway quiz

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What should happen if a gateway has no timeout configured on calls to a backend service?

1. What should happen if a gateway has no timeout configured on calls to a backend service?
2. Which statement about TLS termination at the API gateway is accurate?
3. Which of these is a legitimate reason to run an API gateway as multiple stateless, horizontally scaled instances behind a load balancer?
4. Which of the following is the best reason to enable response caching at the API gateway for a specific read-heavy endpoint?
5. A team wants to expose GraphQL to clients while backend teams each own separate REST or gRPC services. What edge pattern accomplishes this?
6. Why do managed cloud API gateways (like AWS API Gateway) often integrate directly with serverless functions (e.g. Lambda)?
7. Which best describes the difference between an API gateway and a service mesh (e.g. Istio, Linkerd)?
8. What is a key operational risk of a gateway plugin that retries every failed upstream call indefinitely with no backoff or cap?
9. What does rate limiting at an API gateway protect against?
10. What does CORS configuration at the gateway typically control?
11. What is the key architectural difference between an API gateway and a plain load balancer?
12. A gateway route is configured with `strip_path: false` for a service mounted at `/api/orders`. What does this setting control?

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