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Welcome to the Git Quiz! This blog post features 25 multiple-choice questions that explore essential concepts of Git.

1. What is the full form of GIT?

Select the best answer

a) Global International Track.
b) Global information Traffic.
c) Global information Tracker
d) None of the above

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2. Which of the following problems does Git help solve

Choose one option

a) Recovering older versions of a software project
b) Developing multiple versions of a software project in parallel
c) Merging changes to a software project made by collaborating developers working in parallel
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

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3. Which of these Git client commands creates a copy of the repository and a working directory in the
client’s workspace.

Choose one option

a) update
b) checkout
c) clone
d) import
e) None of the above

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4. In Git, which error would you get if you try to push master-branch changes to a remote repository,
and someone else pushed changes to that same branch while you were making your changes?

Choose one option

a) Rejected
b) 404
c) 500
d) Access denied
e) 400 Bad request

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5. Git Pull is a combination of:

Choose one option

a) branch and checkout
b) add and commit
c) fetch and merge

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6. Imagine that you just joined a development team that uses Git for version control and collaboration.
To start contributing to the project, what Git operation would you most likely invoke first?

a) checkout
b) clone
c) export
d) revert
e) update

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7. Imagine that you have a local repository, but other team members have pushed changes into the
remote repository. What Git operation would you use to download those changes into your working
copy?

a) checkout
b) commit
c) export
d) pull
e) update

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8. How do you push changes from a local branch to a remote repository?

Choose one option

a) git send
b) git upload
c) git dispatch
d) git push

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9. What’s a shortcut to staging all the changes you have?

Choose one option

a) git add .
b) git commit .
c) git commit add .
d) git stage -a

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10. Which of the following commands is used in switching between branches?

Choose one option

a) git merge
b) git checkout
c) git switch
d) git branch

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11. What does the HEAD in Git represent?

Choose one option

a) The first commit in the repository
b) The latest commit in the remote repository
c) The currently checked-out commit
d) The base of the current branch

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12.  How can you undo the most recent commit?

Choose one option

a) git revert HEAD
b) git reset HEAD~1
c) git undo
d) git back

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13. Which command is used to stash changes in Git?

Choose one option

a) git hide
b) git keep
c) git reserve
d) git stash

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14. How do you create a tag in Git?

Choose one option

a) git marker
b) git tag
c) git label
d) git point

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15. Which of the following is not a valid merge strategy in Git?

Choose one option

a) fast-forward
b) recursive
c) octopus
d) squid

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16. Which command lists all the branches in a Git repository?

Choose one option

a) git list
b) git branches
c) git show-branches
d) git branch

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17. What does the git cherry-pick command do?

Choose one option

a) Picks a random commit from history
b) Applies changes from a specific commit to the current branch
c) Deletes a specific commit
d) Merges two unrelated branches

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18. How do you remove untracked files from your working directory?

Choose one option

a) git clean
b) git erase
c) git purge
d) git remove

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 19. What is a bare repository in Git?

a) A repository without any commits
b) A repository with no branches
c) A repository without a working directory
d) A repository that can’t be cloned

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20. How do you view the differences between the working directory and the last commit?

Choose one option

a) git view
b) git diff
c) git changes
d) git compare

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21. Which command merges one branch into another?

Choose one option

a) git merge
b) git join
c) git combine
d) git bind

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22. What is a merge conflict?

Choose one option

a) An error in the Git configuration
b) A disagreement among team members
c) Overlapping changes between branches
d) An issue with remote repository synchronization

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23. Which command is used to clone a remote repository?

Choose one option

a) git copy
b) git replicate
c) git duplicate
d) git clone

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24. Which command connects a local repository to a remote server?

Choose one option

a) git link
b) git bind
c) git remote add
d) git connect

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25. How do you fetch the latest updates from a remote repository without merging them?

Choose one option

a) git pull
b) git get
c) git fetch
d) git update

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Welcome to the Git Quiz! This blog post features 25 multiple-choice questions that explore essential concepts of Git.

1. What is Git?

Select the best answer

a) Text Editor
b) Compiler
c) Version Control System
d) Operating System

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2. Git is the same as GitHub.

Choose one option

a) False
b) True

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3. What is the command to get the installed version of Git?

Choose one option

a) git –version
b) git help version
c) getGitVersion
d) gitVersion

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4. Which command initializes a new Git repository?

Choose one option

a) git new
b) git create
c) git start
d) git init

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5. Which option should you use to set the default user name for every repository on your computer?

Choose one option

a) –global
b) –A
c) No need to specify, that is the default.
d) –all

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6. What is the command to set the user email for the current repository?

a) git config email
b) git email.user
c) git config user.email

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7. How can you view the commit history in Git?

a) git logs
b) git history
c) git commits
d) git log

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8. What is the command to add all files and changes of the current folder to the staging environment of the Git repository?

Choose one option

a) git add –all
b) git add –files
c) git add

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9. Which command adds changes to the staging area in Git?

Choose one option

a) git add
b) git save
c) git upload
d) git stage

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10. Which command shows the status of changes in the repository?

Choose one option

a) git status
b) git show
c) git view
d) git display

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11. How to ignore certain files in Git?

Choose one option

a) Ignored files are tracked in a special file named as .gitignore named which is checked in at the root of the repository.
b) Create a file .ignore and track the ignored file in it
c) You can not ignore files in GIT

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12.  Git automatically adds new files to the repository and starts tracking the changes

Choose one option

a) False
b) True

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13. How do you commit the staged changes?

Choose one option

a) git save
b) git update
c) git commit
d) git store

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14. How to unstage the staged changes in Git?

Choose one option

a) git remove
b) git rm
c) git add
d) git commit

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15. What is the command to commit with the message “New attribute”:

Choose one option

a) git commit -m “New attribute”
b) git commit -mess “New attribute”
c) git commit -log “New attribute”
d) git commit message “New attribute”

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16. What does the .git directory store?

Choose one option

a) Configuration files
b) Source code
c) Project documentation
d) Repository metadata and version history

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17. In Git, a branch is:

Choose one option

a) A separate version of the main repository.
b) A small wooden stick you can use to type commands.
c) Nothing, it is a nonsense word.
d) A secret part of Git config.

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18. What will the following command print to the Terminal?

git remote -v

Choose one option

a) The current git version you’re running
b) A list of remote repositories you are connected to
c) The last 5 git versions you’ve installed
d) An inline editor for modifying remote repositories

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 19. Which Command is used to show limited number of commits?

a) git log -f
b) git log -n
c) git config -n
d) git log status

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20. Git commit history is automatically deleted:

Choose one option

a) Every 2 weeks.
b) Every month.
c) Every year.
d) Commit history is never automatically deleted.

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21. Which command creates a new branch in Git?

a) git new branch
b) git branch-new
c) git branch
d) git create-branch

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22. What is the command to move to the branch named “new-email”?

a) git checkout new-email
b) git branch new-email
c) git checkout branch new-email
d) git branch -move new-email

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23. What is the option, when moving to a branch, to create the branch it if it does not exist?

a) -b
b) -new
c) -newbranch
d) -all

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24. How do you switch to a different branch in Git?

a) git switch
b) git move
c) git jump
d) git hop

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25. What is the command to add the remote repository “https://abc.xyz/d/e.git” as “origin”?

a) git remote add origin https://abc.xyz/d/e.git
b) git add origin https://abc.xyz/d/e.git
c) git origin=https://abc.xyz/d/e.git
d) git remote https://abc.xyz/d/e.git

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