Tooling & Federation interview questions

18 real Tooling & Federation questions from the GraphQL bank, as asked in Indian campus drives and tech interviews. Every question has a verified answer and an AI-tutor explanation on placd — free to start.

1. What is Federation?

Junior
  1. A.a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
  2. B.an architecture composing multiple independently owned subgraphs into one unified supergraph for clients
  3. C.one service owning a slice of the federated schema that the gateway combines with others into the whole
  4. D.the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
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3. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Federation — a popular client library providing a normalized cache, hooks and declarative data fetching for front-end apps
  2. B.Federation — one service owning a slice of the federated schema that the gateway combines with others into the whole
  3. C.Federation — a service storing schema versions and running composition and breaking-change checks in CI before publishing
  4. D.Federation — an architecture composing multiple independently owned subgraphs into one unified supergraph for clients
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4. What is Subgraph?

Mid
  1. A.an architecture composing multiple independently owned subgraphs into one unified supergraph for clients
  2. B.a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
  3. C.the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
  4. D.one service owning a slice of the federated schema that the gateway combines with others into the whole
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6. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.Subgraph — a popular client library providing a normalized cache, hooks and declarative data fetching for front-end apps
  2. B.Subgraph — an architecture composing multiple independently owned subgraphs into one unified supergraph for clients
  3. C.Subgraph — one service owning a slice of the federated schema that the gateway combines with others into the whole
  4. D.Subgraph — a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
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7. What is Gateway?

Mid
  1. A.an architecture composing multiple independently owned subgraphs into one unified supergraph for clients
  2. B.a popular client library providing a normalized cache, hooks and declarative data fetching for front-end apps
  3. C.the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
  4. D.a service storing schema versions and running composition and breaking-change checks in CI before publishing
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9. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.Gateway — one service owning a slice of the federated schema that the gateway combines with others into the whole
  2. B.Gateway — the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
  3. C.Gateway — a service storing schema versions and running composition and breaking-change checks in CI before publishing
  4. D.Gateway — a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
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10. What is Entity?

Mid
  1. A.one service owning a slice of the federated schema that the gateway combines with others into the whole
  2. B.a popular client library providing a normalized cache, hooks and declarative data fetching for front-end apps
  3. C.a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
  4. D.the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
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12. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.Entity — a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
  2. B.Entity — the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
  3. C.Entity — an architecture composing multiple independently owned subgraphs into one unified supergraph for clients
  4. D.Entity — a popular client library providing a normalized cache, hooks and declarative data fetching for front-end apps
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13. What is Apollo Client?

Junior
  1. A.a popular client library providing a normalized cache, hooks and declarative data fetching for front-end apps
  2. B.the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
  3. C.a service storing schema versions and running composition and breaking-change checks in CI before publishing
  4. D.one service owning a slice of the federated schema that the gateway combines with others into the whole
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15. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Apollo Client — a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
  2. B.Apollo Client — an architecture composing multiple independently owned subgraphs into one unified supergraph for clients
  3. C.Apollo Client — the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
  4. D.Apollo Client — a popular client library providing a normalized cache, hooks and declarative data fetching for front-end apps
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16. What is Schema registry?

Senior
  1. A.an architecture composing multiple independently owned subgraphs into one unified supergraph for clients
  2. B.a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
  3. C.a popular client library providing a normalized cache, hooks and declarative data fetching for front-end apps
  4. D.a service storing schema versions and running composition and breaking-change checks in CI before publishing
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18. Which statement is correct?

Senior
  1. A.Schema registry — one service owning a slice of the federated schema that the gateway combines with others into the whole
  2. B.Schema registry — a service storing schema versions and running composition and breaking-change checks in CI before publishing
  3. C.Schema registry — the composition layer that plans and executes a client query across subgraphs and merges their partial results
  4. D.Schema registry — a federated object type, identified by a @key, that can be referenced and extended across multiple subgraphs
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