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100

In pokemon red and blue, the first game boy version of pokemon released in 1996. What are the 3 pokemon you can choose from as your starter pokemon?

Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle

100

____ was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath lived 384–322 BC. His writings cover a broad range of subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, drama, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology, and government.

  • Aristotle

100

To index a field that holds an array value, MongoDB creates an index key for each element in the array. These ____ indexes support efficient queries against array fields. These indexes can be constructed over arrays that hold both scalar values [1] (e.g. strings, numbers) and nested documents.

Multikey

100

This database competitor is based in Sunny San Mateo California, however loves freezing rain. This company database is cloud first and offered the first decoupled compute and storage model in the database industry.

Snowflake

100

What was the name of the company before it became MongoDB?

10Gen

200

This pokemon, numbered 132 can transform itself into any other pokemon. What is his name?

Ditto

200

_____ was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Nikola Tesla

200

MongoDB supports creating indexes on a field or set of fields to support queries. Since MongoDB supports dynamic schemas, applications can query against fields whose names cannot be known in advance or are arbitrary.

Wild card

200

This is one of AWS’s offerings for NoSQL, also shares a name with a major league soccer team.

DynamoDB

200

This product accounts for at least 60% of MongoDB’s revenue.

Atlas

300

This cute normal type dog pokemon can evolve to a fire, water or electric type and has an overwhelming amount of evolutionary paths after gen1.

Evee

300

_____ was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. In May 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold his rights to the drink shortly before his death.

John Stith Pemberton

300

____ indexes are special single-field indexes that MongoDB can use to automatically remove documents from a collection after a certain amount of time or at a specific clock time. Data expiration is useful for certain types of information like machine generated event data, logs, and session information that only need to persist in a database for a finite amount of time.

TTL

300

Rival New York based database company, insect based you wouldn't want to find one in your kitchen!

CockroachDB

300

Name the location for the 2022 MongoDB world conference. This was the first time the event was held at this particular location.

Javitz Center New York

400

This pokemon eats and sleeps all the time, if you find your self hitting the snooze button each morning you might be called a _____.

Snorlax

400

_____ is a legendary king of Britain, and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain. Yes he pulled the sword from the stone.

King Arthur

400

A ____ index ensures that the indexed fields do not store duplicate values. By default, MongoDB creates this index on the _id field during the creation of a collection.

Unique

400

This database platform has been built brick by brick. Head quartered in San Fransisco develops and sells a cloud data platform using the marketing term "lakehouse".

Data Bricks

400

Name 3 of the 6 core values for MongoDB.

  • Own what you do

  • Be intellectually honest

  • Make it matter

  • Embrace the power of difference

  • Build together

  • Think Big Go Far

500

Most powerful fire dragon type in base 150 pokemon. Hes the best and his first edition pokemon card regularly sells for over $20,000!

Charizard

500
  • This legendary united states 4 start general nick named "Bandito" and 

"Old Blood and Guts" c ommanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber. 

George S Patton

500

_____ indexes are not visible to the query planner and cannot be used to support a query.

Hidden

500

MongoDB rated #4 in the 2022 stack overflow developer survey. All 3 of the databases were relational. Name 1 of the 3 relational databases that rated higher.

SQLite, PostGres and MySQL

500

The node driver for MongoDB is named after an animal. Name that animal.

Mongoose

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