Top 10 REST API Interview Questions and Answers

REST API interview questions and answers. Top REST API interview questions. RESTful Web Services Interview Questions. REST API interview questions for beginners. REST API interview questions for experienced. In this video, we are going to learn the top 10 REST API interview questions that every Java backend developer must know. These questions are extremely important for Spring Boot, Microservices, and API development interviews. Let’s start. The video presents the following interview questions: What is a REST API? (0:17) What are the main principles of REST? (0:58) What is the difference between REST and SOAP? (2:00) What are HTTP methods in REST and when do we use them? (2:39) What are HTTP status codes and why are they important? (3:17) What is statelessness in REST? (3:59) What is HATEOAS and why is it used? (4:30) What is pagination and why do APIs use it? (5:04) What is authentication versus authorization in REST? (5:36) What is idempotency and which HTTP methods are idempotent? (6:09) #restapi #springboot #interview