Modal Labs Quiz

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1. How do developers typically run code on Modal?
   • By adding a decorator to a Python function
   • By writing assembly language
   • By mailing in a USB drive
   • Only through a drag-and-drop UI
2. What well-known serverless problem is Modal especially engineered to solve?
   • Email spam
   • Slow cold starts
   • Screen resolution
   • Keyboard latency
3. How does Modal bill for compute?
   • A flat yearly fee only
   • Per email sent
   • Per-second for actual compute used
   • Per file stored forever
4. Who co-founded Modal and is known for earlier open-source tools like Luigi and Annoy?
   • Linus Torvalds
   • Guido van Rossum
   • Satya Nadella
   • Erik Bernhardsson
5. What does 'scale to zero' mean on Modal?
   • Shutting down all containers when there's no traffic, so you stop paying
   • Deleting your account
   • Running with no internet
   • Reducing model accuracy to zero
6. Which workload is Modal commonly used for?
   • Manufacturing physical chips
   • Model inference endpoints and batch jobs
   • Running a coffee shop
   • Printing newspapers
7. How can Modal run batch work across thousands of files?
   • Run every file sequentially on a single local CPU
   • Convert each file into a text prompt
   • Fan out the workload in parallel across many containers
   • Send the files to a browser extension
8. How can Modal Sandboxes help an agent that must execute untrusted generated code?
   • Add the code to the base model’s training set
   • Convert the code into an image caption
   • Guarantee the code cannot access any resources
   • Run the code in an isolated container environment