REST, JSON, and APIs >> Using Python to Access Web Data

REST, JSON, and APIs >> Using Python to Access Web Data

1. Who is credited with getting the JSON movement started?

• Mitchell Baker
• Douglas Crockford
• Pooja Sankar
• Bjarne Stroustrup

2. What Python library do you have to import to parse and handle JSON?

• BeautifulSoup
• import re
• ElementTree
• import json

3. Which of the following is a web services approach used by the Twitter API?

• CORBA
• REST
• SOAP
• XML-RPC

4. What kind of variable will you get in Python when the following JSON is parsed:

{ "id" : "001",
   "x" : "2",
   "name" : "Chuck"
 }

• A list with three items
• A list with six items
• A tuple with three items
• A list of tuples
• A dictionary with three key / value pairs

5. Which of the following is not true about the service-oriented approach?

• An application runs together all in one place
• Web services and APIs are used to transfer data between applications
• An application makes use of the services provided by other applications
• Standards are developed where many pairs of applications must work together

6. Which of these two web service approaches is preferred in most modern service-oriented applications?

• SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol
• REST – Representational state transfer

7. What library call do you make to append properly encoded parameters to the end of a URL like the following:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?sensor=false&address=Ann+Arbor%2C+MI

• re.match()
• urllib.parse.urlencode()
• re.encode()
• urllib.urlcat()

8. What happens when you exceed the Google geocoding API rate limit?

• The API starts to perform very slowly
• You canot use the API until you respond to an email that contains a survey question
• Your application starts to perform very slowly
• You cannot use the API for 24 hours

9. What protocol does Twitter use to protect its API?

• PKI-HMAC
• Java Web Tokens
• WS*Security
• OAuth
• SHA1-MD5
• SOAP

10. What header does Twitter use to tell you how many more API requests you can make before you will be rate limited?

• x-max-requests
• content-type
• x-request-count-down
• x-rate-limit-remaining