Building REST APIs with Django Rest Framework

Check your understanding of serializers,viewsets,and authentication in DRF.

1. Django Rest Framework is built on top of which web framework?

Flask Django Pyramid FastAPI

2. Which DRF component converts complex data types (e.g., Django models) into native Python types for rendering into JSON?

ViewSet Serializer Router Permission

3. Which DRF class provides built-in CRUD actions (list, create, retrieve, update, delete) for a model?

APIView ListAPIView ViewSet ModelSerializer

4. What is the default response format for DRF APIs?

XML JSON YAML HTML

5. Which decorator adds a custom action to a ViewSet (e.g., a 'like' endpoint for a PostViewSet)?

@action @api_view @permission_classes @throttle_classes

6. Which HTTP status code should a successful POST request returning a new resource use?

200 OK 201 Created 204 No Content 400 Bad Request

7. What is the role of DRF permission classes?

URL routing Data validation Access control to endpoints Response pagination

8. Which DRF serializer auto-generates fields and validators from a Django model?

Serializer ModelSerializer HyperlinkedModelSerializer ListSerializer

9. Select all built-in DRF authentication classes.

TokenAuthentication SessionAuthentication OAuth2Authentication BasicAuthentication

10. Which are DRF generic views for model CRUD operations?

ListAPIView RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView APIView CreateAPIView

11. Which are valid DRF pagination classes?

PageNumberPagination LimitOffsetPagination CursorPagination SerializerPagination

12. Which permissions restrict access to authenticated users?

IsAuthenticated IsAdminUser AllowAny IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly

13. Which are features of ModelSerializer?

Auto-generates fields from a model Auto-validates data against model constraints Handles URL routing Supports nested serialization

14. DRF requires Django models to build APIs.

True False

15. serializer.is_valid() returns True if incoming data passes the serializer's validation rules.

True False

16. APIView is a base class with no built-in CRUD actions (e.g., list, create).

True False

17. HyperlinkedModelSerializer uses URLs instead of primary keys for model relationships.

True False

18. What does 'DRF' stand for?

19. Name the DRF decorator used to define function-based views (e.g., @decorator def my_view(request): ...).

20. What DRF class auto-generates URL patterns for ViewSets?

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