Intermediate
System Design
Q41 / 100
What is the CAP theorem, and what trade-off does it describe for distributed systems?
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The correct answer is A) A distributed system can provide at most two of Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance simultaneously during a network partition
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Correct Answer
A distributed system can provide at most two of Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance simultaneously during a network partition
Explanation
During a network partition, a system must choose between staying consistent (rejecting some requests) or remaining available (potentially serving stale data), while always being partition tolerant in distributed systems.
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