Django LinkedIn Skill Assessment Answer

Q1. To cache your entire site for an application in Django, you add all except which of these settings?

1. django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware
2. django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware
3. django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware
4. django.middleware.cache.AcceleratedCacheMiddleware✔️

Q2. In which programming language is Django written?

1. C++
2. Java
3. Python✔️
4. Ruby

Q3. To automatically provide a value for a field, or to do validation that requires access to more than a single field, you should override the ___ method in the ___ class.

1. validate(); Model
2. group(); Model
3. validate(); Form
4. clean(); Field✔️

Q4. A client wants their site to be able to load "Rick & Morty" episodes by number or by title – e.g., shows/3/3 or shows/picklerick. Which URL pattern do you recommend?

1. url(r’shows/int:season/int:episode/’, views.episode_number)
2. path(‘shows/int:season/int:episode/’, views.episode_number),✔️
3. path(‘shows/int:season/int:episode‘, views.episode_number),
4. url(r’^show/(?P<season>[0-9]+)/(?P<episode>[0-9]+)/$’, views.episode_number),

Q5. How do you determine at startup time if a piece of middleware should be used?

1. Raise MiddlewareNotUsed in the init function of your middleware.✔️
2. Implement the not_used method in your middleware class.
3. List the middleware beneath an entry of django.middleware.IgnoredMiddleware.
4. Write code to remove the middleware from the settings in [app]/init.py.

Q6. How do you turn off Django’s automatic HTML escaping for part of a web page?

1. Place that section between paragraph tags containing the autoescape=off switch.
2. Wrap that section between { percentage mark autoescape off percentage mark} and {percentage mark endautoescape percentage mark} tags.
3. Wrap that section between {percentage mark autoescapeoff percentage mark} and {percentage mark endautoescapeoff percentage mark} tags.
4. You don’t need to do anything – autoescaping is off by default.✔️

Q7. Which step would NOT help you troubleshoot the error "django-admin: command not found"?

1. Check that the bin folder inside your Django directory is on your system path.
2. Make sure you have activated the virtual environment you have set up containing Django.
3. Check that you have installed Django.
4. Make sure that you have created a Django project.✔️

Q8. Every time a user is saved, their quiz_score needs to be recalculated. Where might be an ideal place to add this logic?

1. template
2. model✔️
3. database
4. view

Q9. What is the correct way to begin a class called "Rainbow" in Python?

1. Rainbow {}
2. export Rainbow:
3. class Rainbow:✔️
4. def Rainbow:

Q10. You have inherited a Django project and need to get it running locally. It comes with a requirements.txt file containing all its dependencies. Which command should you use?

1. django-admin startproject requirements.txt
2. python install -r requirements.txt
3. pip install -r requirements.txt✔️
4. pip install Django

Q11. Which best practice is NOT relevant to migrations?

1. To make sure that your migrations are up to date, you should run updatemigrations before running your tests.✔️
2. You should back up your production database before running a migration.
3. Your migration code should be under source control.
4. If a project has a lot of data, you should test against a staging copy before running the migration on production.

Q12. What will this URL pattern match? url(r’^$’, views.hello)

1. a string beginning with the letter Ra string beginning with the letter R
2. an empty string at the server root✔️
3. a string containing ^ and $a string containing ^ and $
4. an empty string anywhere in the URLan empty string anywhere in the URL

Q13. What is the typical order of an HTTP request/response cycle in Django?

1. URL > view > template✔️
2. form > model > view
3. template > view > model
4. URL > template > view > model

Q14. Django’s class-based generic views provide which classes that implement common web development tasks?

1. concrete
2. thread-safe
3. abstract✔️
4. dynamic

Q15. Which skills do you need to maintain a set of Django templates?

1. template syntax
2. HTML and template syntax✔️
3. Python, HTML, and template syntax
4. Python and template syntax

Q17. How would you define the relationship between a star and a constellation in a Django model?

1. A✔️

class Star(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class Constellation(models.Model):
stars = models.ManyToManyField(Star)

2. B

class Star(models.Model):
constellation = models.ForeignKey(Constellation, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
class Constellation(models.Model):
stars = models.ForeignKey(Star, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

3. C

class Star(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class Constellation(models.Model):
stars = models.OneToManyField(Star)

4. D

class Star(models.Model):
constellation = models.ManyToManyField(Constellation)
class Constellation(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

Q18. Which is NOT a valid step in configuring your Django 2.x instance to serve up static files such as images or CSS?

1. In your urls file, add a pattern that includes the name of your static directory.✔️
2. Create a directory named static inside your app directory.
3. Create a directory named after the app under the static directory, and place static files inside.
4. Use the template tag {percentage mark load static percentage mark}.

Q19. What is the correct way to make a variable available to all of your templates?

1. Set a session variable.
2. Use a global variable.
3. Add a dictionary to the template context.
4. Use RequestContext.✔️

Q20. Should you create a custom user model for new projects?

1. No. Using a custom user model could break the admin interface and some third-party apps.
2. Yes. It is easier to make changes once it goes into production.
3. No. Django’s built-in models.User class has been tried and tested—no point in reinventing the wheel.✔️
4. Yes, as there is no other option.

Q21. You want to create a page that allows editing of two classes connected by a foreign key (e.g., a question and answer that reside in separate tables). What Django feature can you use?

1. actions✔️
2. admin
3. mezcal
4. inlines

Q22. Why are QuerySets considered "lazy"?

1. The results of a QuerySet are not ordered.
2. QuerySets do not create any database activity until they are evaluated.✔️
3. QuerySets do not load objects into memory until they are needed.
4. Using QuerySets, you cannot execute more complex queries.

Q23. You receive a MultiValueDictKeyError when trying to access a request parameter with the following code: request.GET[‘search_term’]. Which solution will NOT help you in this scenario?

1. Switch to using POST instead of GET as the request method.✔️
2. Make sure the input field in your form is also named "search_term".
3. Use MultiValueDict’s GET method instead of hitting the dictionary directly like this: request.GET.get(‘search_term’, ”).
4. Check if the search_term parameter is present in the request before attempting to access it.

Q24. Which function of Django’s Form class will render a form’s fields as a series of <p> tags?

1. show_fields()
2. as_p()✔️
3. as_table()
4. fields()

Q25. You have found a bug in Django and you want to submit a patch. Which is the correct procedure?

1. Fork the Django repository GitHub.
2. Submit a pull request.
3. all of these answers.✔️
4. Run Django’s test suite.

Q26. Django supplies sensible default values for settings. In which Python module can you find these settings?

1. django.utils.default_settings.py
2. django.utils.global_settings.py
3. django.conf.default_settings.py
4. django.conf.global_settings.py✔️

Q27. Which variable name is best according to PEP 8 guidelines?

1. numFingers
2. number-of-Fingers
3. number_of_fingers✔️
4. finger_num

Q28. A project has accumulated 500 migrations. Which course of action would you pursue?

1. Manually merge your migration files to reduce the number
2. Don’t worry about the number
3. Try to minimize the number of migrations
4. Use squashmigrations to reduce the number✔️

Q29. What does an F() object allow you when dealing with models?

1. perform db operations without fetching a model object✔️
2. define db transaction isolation levels
3. use aggregate functions more easily
4. build reusable QuerySets

Q30. Which is not a django filed type for integers?

1. SmallIntegerField
2. NegativeIntegerField✔️
3. BigAutoField
4. PositiveIntegerField

Q31. Which will show the currently installed version?

1. print (django.version)
2. import django django.getVersion()
3. import django django.get_version()✔️
4. python -c django –version

Q32. You should use the http method ___ to read data and ___ to update or create data

1. READ; WRITE
2. GET; POST✔️
3. POST; GET
4. GET; PATCH

Q33. When should you employ the POST method over GET for submitting data?

1. when efficiency is important
2. when you want the data to be cached
3. when you want to use your browser to help with debugging
4. when the data in the form may be sensitive✔️

Q34. When to use the Django sites framework?

1. if your single installation powers more than one site✔️
2. if you need to serve static as well as dynamic content
3. if you want your app have a fully qualified domain name
4. if you are expecting more than 10.000 users

Q35. Which infrastructure do you need:

title=models.charfield(max_length=100, validators=[validate_spelling])

1. inizialized array called validators
2. a validators file containing a function called validate_spelling imported at the top of model✔️
3. a validators file containing a function called validate imported at the top of model
4. spelling package imported at the top of model

Q36. What decorator is used to require that a view accepts only the get and head methods?

1. require_safe()✔️
2. require_put()
3. require_post()
4. require_get()

Q37. How would you define the relation between a book and an author – book has only one author.

1. A✔️

class Author (models.model):
book=models.foreignkey(Book,on_delete=models.cascade)
class Book(models.model):
name=models.charfield(max_length=100)

2. B

class Author (models.model):
name=models.charfield(max_length=100)
class Book(models.model):
author=models.foreignkey(Author,on_delete=models.cascade)

3. C

class Author (models.model):
name=models.charfield(max_length=100)
class Book(models.model):
author=models.foreignkey(Author)

4. D

class Author (models.model):
name=models.charfield(max_length=100)
class Book(models.model):
author=models.foreignkey(Author,on_delete=models.cascade)

5. E

class Author (models.model):
name=models.charfield(max_length=100)
class Book(models.model):
author=Author.name

Q38. What is a callable that takes a value and raises an error if the value fails?

1. validator✔️
2. deodorizer
3. mediator
4. regular expression

Q39. To secure an API endpoint, making it accessible to registered users only, you can replace the rest_framework.permissions.allowAny value in the default_permissions section of your settings.py to

1. rest_framework.permissions.IsAdminUser
2. rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated✔️
3. rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthorized
4. rest_framework.permissions.IsRegistered

Q40. Which command would you use to apply a migration?

1. makemigration
2. update_db
3. applymigration
4. migrate✔️

Q41. Which type of class allows QuerySets and model instances to be converted to native Python data types for use in APIs?

1. objectwriters
2. serializers✔️
3. picklers
4. viewsets

Q42. How should the code end?

{ percentage if spark >= 50 percentage }
Lots of spark
{percentage elif spark == 42 percentage}

1. { percentage else percentage}
2. {percentage endif percentage}✔️
3. Nothing needed
4. {percentage end percentage}

Q43 Which code block will create a serializer?

from rest_framework import serializers
from .models import Planet

1. A✔️

class PlanetSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model=Planet
fields=('name','position', 'mass', 'rings')

2. B

from rest_framework import serializers
from .models import Planet
class PlanetSerializer():
class Meta:
fields=('name','position', 'mass', 'rings')
model=Planet

3. C

from django.db import serializers
from .models import Planet
class PlanetSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
fields=('name','position', 'mass', 'rings')
model=Sandwich

4. D

from django.db import serializers
from .models import Planet
class PlanetSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
fields=('name')
model=Planet

Q44 Which class allows you to automatically create a Serializer class with fields and validators that correspond to your model’s fields?

1. ModelSerializer✔️
2. Model
3. DataSerializer
4. ModelToSerializer

Q45 Which command to access the built-in admin tool for the first time?

1. django-admin setup
2. django-admin runserver
3. python manage.py createuser
4. python manage.py createsuperuser✔️

Q46. Virtual environments are for managing dependencies. Which granularity works best?

1. you should set up a new virtualenv for each Django project✔️
2. They should not be used
3. Use the same venv for all your Django work
4. Use a new venv for each Django app

Q47. What executes various Django commands such as running a webserver or creating an app?

1. migrate.py
2. wsgi.py
3. manage.py✔️
4. runserver

Q48. What do Django best practice suggest should be "fat"?

1. models✔️
2. controllers
3. programmers
4. clients

Q49. Which is not the part of Django Design Philosophies?

1. Loose Coupling
2. Less Code
3. Fast Development
4. Repeat Yourself✔️

Q50. What is the result of this template code?

{{"live long and prosper"|truncate:3}}

1. live long and …✔️
2. live long and
3. a compilation error
4. liv

Q51. When does this code load data into memory?

1 sandwiches = Sandwich.objects.filter(is_vegan=True)
2 for sandwich in sandwiches:
3   print(sandwich.name + " - " + sandwich.spice_level)

1. line 1
2. It depends on how many results return by query.✔️
3. It depends on cache.
4. line 2

Q52. You are building a web application using a React front end and a Django back end. For what will you need to provision?

1. an NGINX web server
2. a NoSQL database
3. a larger hard drive
4. CORS middleware

Q53. To expose an existing model via an API endpoint, what do you need to implement?

1. an HTTP request
2. a JSON object
3. a query
4. a serializer

Q54. How would you stop Django from performing database table creation or deletion operations via migrations for a particular model?

1. Run the migrate command with –exclude=[model_name].
2. Move the model definition from models.py into its own file.
3. Set managed=False inside the model.✔️
4. Don’t run the migrate command.

Q55. what method can you use to check if form data has changed when using a form instance?

1. has_changed()✔️
2. its_changed()
3. has_updated()
4. None of This

Q56. Which generic view should be used for displaying the tittles of all Django Reinhardt’s songs?

1. DetailView
2. TittleView
3. SongView
4. ListView✔️

Q57. Which statement is most accurate, regarding using the default SQLite database on your local/development machine but Postgres in production

1. There’s less chance of introducing bugs since SQLite already works out the box✔️
2. It’s fine, you just need to keep both instances synchronized
3. It’s a bad idea and could lead to issues down the road
4. It’s the most efficient way to build a project

Q58. Why might you want to write a custom model Manager?

1. to perform database queries
2. to set up a database for testing
3. to modify the initial QuerySet that the Manager returns✔️
4. to filter the results that a database query returns

Q59. In Django, what are used to customize the data that is sent to the templates?

1. models
2. views✔️
3. forms
4. serializers

Q60. To complete the conditional, what should this block of code end with?

% if sparles >= 50 %
  Lots of sparkles!
% elif sparkles == 42 %
  The answer to life, the universe, and everything!

1. % endif %✔️
2. Nothing else is needed.
3. % end%
4. % else %

Q61. When should you employ the POST method over the GET method for submitting data from a form?

1. when the data in the form may be sensitive✔️
2. when you want the data to be cached
3. when you want to use your browser to help with debugging
4. when efficiency is important

Q62. What is a callable that takes a value and raises an error if the value fails to meet some criteria?

1. mediator
2. validator✔️
3. regular expression
4. deodorizer

Q63. You are uploading a file to Django from a form and you want to save the received file as a field on a model object. You can simply assign the file object from __ to a field of type __ in the model.

1. request.META; FileField
2. request.FILES; BLOBField
3. request.FILES; FileField✔️
4. request.META.Files; CLOBField

Q64. What python module might be used to store the current state of a Django model in a file?

1. pickle✔️
2. struct
3. marshal
4. serialize

Q65. To add a new app to an existing Django project, you must edit the __ section of the __ file.

1. ALLOWED_HOSTS; settings.py
2. APPS; manage.py
3. INSTALLED_APPS; settings.py✔️
4. TEMPLATES; urls.py

Q66. Which is not a third-party package commonly used for authentication?

1. django-guardian
2. django-rest-auth
3. authtoken
4. django-rest-framework-jwt✔️

Q67. Which function in the django.urls package can help you avoid hardcoding URLS by generating a URL given the name of a view?

1. get_script_prefix()
2. redirect()
3. reverse()✔️
4. resolve()

Q68. Which is Fictional HTTP request method?

1. POST
2. PUT
3. PAUSE✔️
4. PATCH

Q69. Which helper function is not provided as a part of django.shortcuts package? ref-

1. render_to_request()✔️
2. render()
3. redirect()
4. get_object_or_404()

Reference

Q70. Which is a nonstandard place to store templates?

1. at the root level of a project✔️
2. inside the application
3. in the database
4. on Github

Q71. If you left the 8080 off the command python manage.py runserver 8080 what port would Django use as default?

1. 8080✔️
2. 80
3. 8000
4. It would fail to start

Q72. Which statement about Django apps is false?

1. A Django app is the top-level container for a web application powered by Django.✔️
2. Django apps are small libraries designed to represent a single aspect of a project.
3. Each Django app should do one thing, and one thing alone.
4. A Django project is made up of many apps.

Q73. Which characters are illegal in template variable names?

1. underscores.
2. uppercase letters.
3. punctuation marks .✔️
4. numbers.

Reference

Q74. Which is not a valid closing template tag?

1. % endautoescape %
2. % endifempty %✔️
3. % endcomment %
4. % endfilter %

Q75. When would you need to use the reverse_lazy utility function instead of reverse?

1. when you want to provide a reverse URL as a default value for a parameter in a function’s signature
2. all of the these answers✔️
3. when you want to provide a reverse URL as the url attribute of a class-based generic view
4. when you want to provide a URL to a decorator, such as the login_url argument for the permission_required() decorator

Q76. What is the purpose of the init.py file?

1. to extend the set of modules found in a package
2. to allow compiled modules from different releases and different versions of Python to coexist
3. to initialize project settings
4. to declare the directory contents as a Python module✔️

Reference

Q77. What python package can be used to edit numbers into more readable form like "1200000" to "1.2 million"?

1. black
2. puffer
3. pitch
4. humanize✔️

Q78. Which is not part of Django’s design philosophy?

1. Loose Coupling
2. Less Code
3. Fast Development
4. Implicit over explicit✔️

Q79. You are building a web application using a React front end and a Django back end. For what will you need to provision?

1. an NGINX web server
2. a NoSQL database
3. a larger hard drive
4. CORS middleware✔️

Q80. To expose an existing model via an API endpoint, what do you need to implement?

1. an HTTP request
2. a JSON object
3. a query
4. a serializer✔️

Q81. How would you stop Django from performing database table creation or deletion operations via migrations for a particular model?

1. Run the migrate command with –exclude=[model_name].
2. Move the model definition from models.py into its own file.
3. Set managed=False inside the model.✔️
4. Don’t run the migrate command.

Q82. What is WSGI?

1. a server✔️
2. an interface specification
3. a Python module
4. a framework