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System Design – API Design

Practice system design interview questions focused on API design. Cover REST principles, versioning, error handling, and resource modeling. Answer questions and receive feedback on clarity and trade-offs. Ideal for software engineer system design prep. First 2 questions are free with full feedback.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Questions 12
  • API design

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Sample system design – api design interview questions

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  1. What makes a good REST API?

    What a strong answer includes

    Clear resources, proper HTTP methods, and consistent responses.

  2. How do you name API endpoints?

    What a strong answer includes

    Uses nouns for resources, not verbs.

  3. Explain idempotency in API design.

    What a strong answer includes

    Same request can be repeated safely.

  4. How do you version an API?

    What a strong answer includes

    URL path or header versioning.

  5. What HTTP status codes should you use for common cases?

    What a strong answer includes

    200, 201, 400, 404, 500.

  6. How do you design pagination for a list endpoint?

    What a strong answer includes

    Limit/offset or cursor-based.