Integrative Programming Quiz - PREFINAL AND FINAL

Which module is commonly used in Python for serializing and deserializing objects?

• os

• pickle

• math

• array

What does the pickle.dump() function do?

• Reads a file

• Writes serialized object to a file

• Compresses data

• Executes a script

Which of the following data types cannot be pickled?

• Lists

• Dictionaries

• Functions with local references

• Integers

What is the file extension usually used when saving pickled data?

• .py

• .txt

• .pkl

• .json

Which method is used to read pickled data from a file?

• pickle.load()

• pickle.open()

• pickle.read()

• pickle.input()

What does JSON serialization in Python typically handle?

• Complex Python objects like classes

• Only strings

• Basic data types like dict, list, str, int

• Database tables

What happens if you try to pickle an open file object?

• It is serialized

• It raises an error

• It is converted to JSON

• It becomes a string

Which is safer for sharing data across networks?

• pickle

• binary

• json

• marshal

What is a major security concern with using pickle.loads() on untrusted data?

• It leaks memory

• It is too slow

• It may execute arbitrary code

• It cannot deserialize strings

Which protocol version of pickle is recommended for Python 3?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 4 or higher