41+ Postman Interview Questions & Answers (with Notes) |  PART 1
Tags: testing, postman, beginners
Published: 2022-01-23 06:27:28

In this video, we are going to cover the 41+ Postman interview questions and answers.

✅ Download the Mind map - https://sdet.live/notes
✅ API Testing Postman Playlist - https://sdet.live/4keR

✅ 41+ Postman Interview Questions & Answers
 ➡️ 1. What is Postman?
  It is not an API Testing Tool
  Postman is collaboration platform for API development
  Help you to Design, Share, build , test, Document APIs
  Postman supports Protocols - REST, SOAP, and GraphQL
  Where as CURL 
   Source curl.se
  Website
   https://www.postman.com/
  Can use as
   
 ➡️ 2. Why use Postman?
  Clean and Easy to use UI
  You can perform Exploratory Testing of APIs
  Dynamic request, data and Collections support
  Team workspace, sharing, mocking, monitoring of APIs
  Write test case, put them in CI/CD with newman
  Import from curl and different ways, sharing as link, explore feature
 ➡️ 3. When to use Postman?
  Context as Software Tester
   You have few API request
   You don’t want to manage as code
   Team is little not well versed with code
   You want to cover API test(small collection)
 ➡️ 4. What are drawbacks of Postman?
  Not suitable for the larger or 1000+ API request
  For Large project its very clumsy to manage postman requests or collections
  Not suitable if you want to manage as Code, lots of duplicate code if multiple API or dynamic request are required. 
 ➡️ 5. What is an API?
  API stands for the Application Programming Interface,
  They are basically a collection of functions and procedures which allows us to communicate two applications or libraries.
  
  
  Read more at
   https://sdet.live/4Euj
 ➡️ 6. Can you tell alternates of Postman?
  Katalon Studio
  SoapUI
  Apigee
  Jmeter
  Tricentis Tosca
  hoppscotch.io
 ➡️ 7. What are different HTTP Methods?
  GET
  POST
  PATCH
  PUT
  DELETE
  OPTIONS
  HEAD
 ➡️ 8. Can you test SOAP request with POSTMAN?
  Yes
  Demo
   https://sdet.live/4Eus
 ➡️ 9. What is GET request?
  Retrieve information from the given server using a given URI.
  Requests using GET should only retrieve data and should have no other effect on the data.
 ➡️ 10. What is POST request?
  A POST request is used to send data to the server, for example, customer information, file upload, etc. using HTML forms.
  With or without Auth
 ➡️ 11. What is Patch Request?
  Partial Update to the target resource
 ➡️ 12. What is Put request?
  Replaces all current representations of the target resource with the uploaded content.
 ➡️ 13. What is Delete request?
  Removes all current representations of the target resource given by a URI.
 ➡️ 14. What is HEAD http method?
  Same as GET, but transfers the status line and header section only.
 ➡️ 15. What you validate in API Response?
  Status Code
  Response Body
   Further Testing
  Headers
 16. How do import request from dev tools to Postman?
  
 17. What type of Authentication supports Postman? 
  No auth
  Basic
  Digest
  Bearer Token
  AWS Signature
  NTLM
  OAuth1,2
  API key
  
 18. What is Basic Auth, How to perform in Postman ?
  https://scrolltest.com/2018/11/22/how-to-handle-authentications-with-postman/
  Basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a username and password when making a request. In the example, 
  https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/authorization/#basic-auth
 19. What is digest auth?, How to perform in POSTMAN?
  In the Digest Auth. method username and password are sent over the web after applying some hash functions, Therefore which makes it more secure over network.
  https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/authorization/#digest-auth
 20. What is bearer token? And How to use it with POSTMAN?
  Bearer tokens allow requests to authenticate using an access key, such as a JSON Web Token (JWT).
 21. What is OAuth 1.0 & 2.0:-
 and How to do it with POSTMAN?
  They are the way for Internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords.
  https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/authorization/#oauth-10
  https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/authorization/#oauth-20
 
✅API Testing –
https://www.learnapitesting.com

✅Cypress Tutorial with LIVE Projects –
http://cypresstutorial.com

🟢30 Days of Automation Testing
https://go.scrolltest.com/automation
🟢30 Days of API Testing
https://apitesting.co/30days
🟢30 Days of Rest Assured
https://go.scrolltest.com/30days-restassured

—————————————————–
👪 Join our Community – http://bit.ly/learntesting2019
✅ Automation Tester Community – https://thetestingacademy.com
🐦Follow us on Twitter – https://twitter.com/itstechmode
📖 Like us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/scrolltest
🎤 Listen to our Podcast – https://anchor.fm/thetestingacademy
——————————————————

#postman #apitesting #postmaninterview #softwaretesting