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FastAPI Interview Questions Handbook

The document is a handbook of FastAPI interview questions and answers covering fundamentals, request and response handling, Pydantic, dependency injection, database integration, authentication methods, async programming, middleware, deployment strategies, best practices, and advanced topics. It highlights FastAPI's performance, productivity, and scalability benefits. Key concepts include path vs query parameters, JWT for authentication, and using SQLAlchemy with Alembic for database management.

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FastAPI Interview Questions Handbook

The document is a handbook of FastAPI interview questions and answers covering fundamentals, request and response handling, Pydantic, dependency injection, database integration, authentication methods, async programming, middleware, deployment strategies, best practices, and advanced topics. It highlights FastAPI's performance, productivity, and scalability benefits. Key concepts include path vs query parameters, JWT for authentication, and using SQLAlchemy with Alembic for database management.

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FastAPI Interview Questions & Answers Handbook

Page 1: FastAPI Fundamentals


Q: What is FastAPI?
Answer: FastAPI is a modern, high-performance Python framework for building APIs using type
hints.

Q: Why FastAPI?
Answer: Automatic validation, automatic documentation, async support, high performance.

Page 2: Request & Response


Q: Path vs Query Parameters
Answer: Path parameters identify resources; query parameters filter or modify requests.

Q: Response Models
Answer: Use Pydantic models to validate and shape API responses.

Page 3: Pydantic
Q: What is Pydantic?
Answer: A library for data validation and serialization using Python type hints.

Page 4: Dependency Injection


Q: What is Depends()?
Answer: FastAPI executes reusable dependency functions and injects their results into routes.

Q: Why use yield?


Answer: To ensure cleanup such as closing database sessions after the request.

Page 5: Database
Q: SQLAlchemy
Answer: Popular ORM used with FastAPI.

Q: Alembic
Answer: Handles database schema migrations.

Page 6: Authentication
Q: JWT
Answer: Stateless token-based authentication.

Q: OAuth2
Answer: Industry-standard authorization framework.
Page 7: Async
Q: async/await
Answer: Enables non-blocking I/O for high concurrency.

Page 8: Middleware
Q: Middleware
Answer: Runs before and/or after every request for logging, auth, CORS, etc.

Page 9: Deployment
Q: Production Stack
Answer: Uvicorn + Gunicorn + Nginx, optionally Docker.

Page 10: Best Practices


Q: Project Structure
Answer: Separate routers, services, models, schemas, dependencies.

Page 11: Advanced Questions


Q: Rate Limiting
Answer: Protect APIs from abuse using middleware or external tools.

Q: Caching
Answer: Use Redis to reduce database load.

Page 12: HR & Scenario


Q: Why FastAPI?
Answer: It provides excellent performance, developer productivity, and scalability.

Q: How do you debug a 500 error?


Answer: Check logs, traceback, request payload, dependencies, and database connectivity.

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