100+ Free IBM Full Stack Software Developer Practice Questions

Cloud computing and cloud-native fundamentals

Cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models, serverless and FaaS, elasticity and horizontal vs vertical scaling, DevOps culture, CI/CD pipelines, the Twelve-Factor App, statelessness, and high availability.

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript front-end

Semantic HTML elements, the CSS box model and Flexbox, responsive design with media queries, the Bootstrap framework, and JavaScript fundamentals including let/const, the DOM and events, arrays and ES6 features, async fetch, and JSON serialization.

React front-end development

JSX and components, props and one-way data flow, state with the useState and useEffect hooks, the virtual DOM and reconciliation, list keys, controlled forms, conditional rendering, the Context API, data fetching, and React Router.

Node.js, Express, and REST APIs

The non-blocking event loop, npm and package.json, creating an Express app, routing and route parameters, middleware and express.json, REST HTTP methods and idempotency, HTTP status codes, CORS, and Swagger/OpenAPI documentation.

Python programming

Python syntax and functions, lists, tuples, dictionaries and sets, list comprehensions, try/except exception handling, virtual environments, the requests library for REST calls, and pandas DataFrame basics for data science.

Django, SQL, and databases

Django's Model-View-Template architecture, models and the ORM, makemigrations and migrate, URLconf and the admin site, SQL SELECT, WHERE, JOIN, primary and foreign keys, and the differences between relational SQL and NoSQL document databases.

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift

Docker containers versus virtual machines, Dockerfiles and docker build, Kubernetes pods, deployments, services, ReplicaSets, ConfigMaps and Secrets, kubectl, persistent volumes and claims, and Red Hat OpenShift with Routes and source-to-image.

Microservices, serverless, CI/CD, and Git

Microservices versus monoliths and their trade-offs, serverless use cases, service mesh with Istio, CI/CD for containerized apps, application security practices, and Git and GitHub workflows including commits, branches, and pull requests.