Session Management

Question 1

What exactly is a session ?

Answer 1

Session is user interaction which happens with a website over a period of time.Its interaction
which happens right when browser opens and browser closes.

Question 2

Explain “HTTP is a stateless protocol” ?

Question 3

What are various way of doing session management ?

Question 4

Are sessions enabled by default ?

Question 5

How to enable sessions in MVC core ?

Question 6

Are sessions variables shared(global) between users ?

Question 7

Do session variables use cookies ?

Question 8

What is a cookie ?

Question 9

Explain idle time out in sessions ?

Question 10

What does a Context means in HTTP ?

Question 11

When should we use viewdata ?

Answer 11

To pass data from controller to view.

Question 12

How to pass data from controller to view ?

Question 13

In same request can viewdata persist across actions ?

Question 14

ViewBag vs ViewData ?

Answer 14

ViewBag is syntatic sugar over viewdata.

Question 15

How does ViewBag work internally ?

Question 16

Explain viewModels ?

Question 17

ViewBag vs ViewModel Whats the best practice ?

Question 18

Explain tempdata ?

Question 19

Can tempdata persist across action redirects ?

Question 20

How is tempdata different from viewdata ?

Question 21

If tempdata is read is it available for next request ?

Answer 21

NO

Question 22

How to persist tempdata ?

Answer 22

We can persist tempdata by calling the keep method.

Question 23

What does Keep do in tempdata ?

Answer 23

Keep method persist the data for the next request.

Question 24

Explain Peek in tempdata ?

Answer 24

Peek = Keep + Read. It will read as well as keep the data.

Question 25

How is tempdata different from session variables ?

Question 26

If i restart the server does tempdata,session stay ?

Answer 26

No, tempdata and session do not persist in server restarts.

Question 27

Is tempdata private to a user ?