What is a fallback response?
Practice this question from Quiz: Handling Downstream Latency with Circuit Breaker, with options and an explanation.
Question
What is a fallback response?
Option A — Correct answer
A degraded or partial response used when dependency call fails
Option B
A second database schema
Option C
A Kafka partition key
Option D
A permanent data deletion
Explanation
Fallbacks keep non-critical flows usable.