41+ Postman Interview Questions & Answers
1. What is Postman?
2. Why use Postman?
3. When to use Postman?
4. What are drawbacks of Postman?
5. What is an API?
API stands for the Application Programming Interface,
They are basically a collection of functions and procedures
which allows us to communicate two applications or libraries.
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6. Can you tell alternates of Postman?
Katalon Studio
SoapUI
Apigee
Jmeter
Tricentis Tosca
hoppscotch.io
7. What are different HTTP Methods?
GET
POST
PATCH
PUT
DELETE
OPTIONS
HEAD
8. Can you test SOAP request with POSTMAN?
Yes
Demo
https://sdet.live/4Eus
9. What is GET request?
Retrieve information from the given server using a given URI.
Requests using GET should only retrieve data and should
have no other effect on the data.
10. What is POST request?
A POST request is used to send data to the server, for
example, customer information, file upload, etc. using HTML
forms.
With or without Auth
11. What is Patch Request?
Partial Update to the target resource
12. What is Put request?
Replaces all current representations of the target resource
with the uploaded content.
13. What is Delete request?
Removes all current representations of the target resource
given by a URI.
14. What is HEAD http method?
Same as GET, but transfers the status line and header section
only.
15. What you validate in API Response?
Status Code
Response Body
Further Testing
Headers
16. How do import request from dev tools to Postman?
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17. What type of Authentication supports Postman?
No auth
Basic
Digest
Bearer Token
AWS Signature
NTLM
OAuth1,2
API key
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18. What is Basic Auth, How to perform in Postman ?
https://scrolltest.com/2018/11/22/how-to-handle-
authentications-with-postman/
Basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user
agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a username and
password when making a request. In the example,
https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/
authorization/#basic-auth
19. What is digest auth?, How to perform in POSTMAN?
In the Digest Auth. method username and password are sent
over the web after applying some hash functions, Therefore
which makes it more secure over network.
https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/
authorization/#digest-auth
20. What is bearer token? And How to use it with POSTMAN?
Bearer tokens allow requests to authenticate using an access
key, such as a JSON Web Token (JWT).
21. What is OAuth 1.0 & 2.0:-
and How to do it with POSTMAN?
They are the way for Internet users to grant websites or
applications access to their information on other websites but
without giving them the passwords.
https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/
authorization/#oauth-10
https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/
authorization/#oauth-20
22. How to add Headers in POSTMAN?
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23. What is content-type Headers and How to use in Postman?
24. How to add Cookies in Postman?
25. What is Workspace in Postman?
26. What is Collection in Postman?
27. What is Moniter of Collection in Postman?
28. What is Mocking in Postman?
29 How to export the Postman request as Code?
30 How to Add test case verification in Postman?
31. What is Pre Script and Post Script?
Pre Script - Code you want to run before
32. How to send the raw, binary, x-www-form-urlencoded, form
data in POST request in Postman?
33. How to use GraphQL in postman?
Similar to POST request with the GraphQl variables , Values
34. What is environment and How export it?
35. What are different type of variables in Postman?
Local
Global
Collection
Data
Env
36. How can we stop executing requests or stop the collection
run?
postman.setNextRequest(null);
37. What are some of the JS libraries available in Postman?
Lodash
ChaiJS
Moment, GUID
38. What is Postman Console?
39. How to add Proxy to Postman?
40 How to enable ssl Verification in Postman?
41. What is Collection Runner in Postman?
