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Cache Consistency Quiz

Answer 10 random questions about Cache Consistency, then see your score and why each answer is right. Every attempt draws a new set.

Sample questions

  1. In cache-aside, what should the write path do after updating the database?
  2. A reader misses, reads price 100, a writer commits 80 and deletes the key, then the reader sets 100. What is this called?
  3. How did Facebook's memcache deployment address stale sets and thundering herds?
  4. You need to invalidate every cached page of a category. What's the most efficient approach?
  5. Database CPU spikes exactly one hour after a nightly cache warm-up every day. Why?

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