LARAVEL Professional Standards & Competencies 4

Question 1

What is the professional Laravel convention for naming database tables created by Eloquent models?

Accepted Answer

snake_case plural of the model name

Answer

By convention, Eloquent maps a model named `UserProfile` to a table named `user_profiles` using snake_case plural form.

Question 2

Which practice best demonstrates professional use of Laravel's dependency injection container?

Accepted Answer

Type-hinting dependencies in constructor or method signatures

Answer

Type-hinting dependencies allows Laravel's IoC container to automatically resolve and inject them, making code testable and loosely coupled.

Question 3

What is the purpose of Laravel Horizon in a professional application?

Accepted Answer

It provides a web-based UI for managing and monitoring Redis-backed queues

Answer

Laravel Horizon provides a real-time dashboard and configuration for monitoring Redis queue workers, job throughput, and failures.

Question 4

In professional Laravel API development, what HTTP status code should be returned when a resource is successfully created?

Accepted Answer

201 Created

Answer

HTTP 201 Created is the semantically correct response for a successful POST request that creates a new resource.

Question 5

Which Laravel feature allows professionals to version their API routes cleanly?

Accepted Answer

Grouping routes with a URI prefix like `api/v1` using Route::prefix()

Answer

Route::prefix('v1') groups all v1 API routes under the `/api/v1` URI namespace cleanly within `routes/api.php`.

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