The IIT Madras BS Modern Application Development I (MAD 1) Quiz 2 paper sat on 12 Apr 2026, in the January 2026 term: 15 questions for 45 marks in 120 minutes. Every question is below with its answer. Take it as a timed mock test to be marked, or read it through first.
You want to create an app where students can log in and download hall tickets. To make this more efficient, you want to have some very quick way to check whether a given user has already downloaded their hall ticket or not. Which kind of database will you prefer?
RDBMS
Doc-oriented database
Graph database
Key-value store
Correct answer
Key-value store
Which of the following enables asynchronous communication between client and server without loading the entire web page?
CGI
FTP
SMTP
AJAX
Correct answer
AJAX
Consider the following Flask application.
Hello Guest! Your role is member.
Hello Alice! Your role is ADMIN.
Hello ALICE! Your role is admin.
Correct answer
Hello ALICE! Your role is admin.
Consider the following Python code.
Which of the following is the correct output of the above code?
56
11
6
30
Correct answer
11
A server has a 16-core CPU, 64 GB RAM and 1 Gbps network connection. The server is running a single instance of an app that can generate a maximum of 500 HTML pages per second, each of which results in a 100KB image to be downloaded by the client. What is the maximum number of requests per second that can be handled by this setup?
10,000
1250
1000
500
Correct answer
500
A web server is connected to a 5Mbps network line. Each HTTP request contains 4KB of header information and 6KB of payload. What is the maximum number of requests per second the web server can support?(Note: 1KB=1000B, 1MB=1000KB and so on)
500
62
124
31
Correct answer
62
Consider the following HTML/CSS code.
What will be the output when the above HTML file is rendered?
Correct answer
You have a DRAM module with bus width of 64 bits, clock speed of 1 GHz, and operating in DDR (double-data-rate or two values per clock cycle) mode. What is the maximum bandwidth (in Giga-bytes per second) of data transfer achievable with this module?
8 GigaBytes/s
16 GigaBytes/s
24 GigaBytes/s
None of these
Correct answer
16 GigaBytes/s
Which of the following flask routes can take dynamic value in the URL like “/user/55”?
Correct answers
Consider the following Python Flask code.
Consider the following HTML and Python Flask code.
Output is: 3
Output is:
Output is: 1 2 3
Output is: 1 2 3 3
Correct answer
Output is:
Consider the following HTML code.
What will be the output in the console window when the above HTML doc is rendered on the browser ?
1
2
3
4
Correct answer
3
Consider the following Python Flask code.
curl -X POST --json '{"uid":"admin","pwd":"xyz"}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/login
curl -X GET --json '{"uid":"admin","pwd":"xyz"}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/login
URL request: http://127.0.0.1:5000/login
curl --json '{"uid":"admin","pwd":"12345"}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/login
curl -X POST --json '{"uid":"admin","pwd":"12345"}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/login
Correct answers
curl -X GET --json '{"uid":"admin","pwd":"xyz"}' http://127.0.0.1:5000/login
URL request: http://127.0.0.1:5000/login
Consider the following SQLAlchemy class models.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Which of the following relationships exists between the “User” and “Profile” models?
Many-to-Many
Many-to-One
One-to-Many
One-to-One
Correct answer
One-to-One
Consider the following SQLAlchemy class models.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
What will be the output if the following commands are executed in the python shell.
Correct answer
