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What happens during a split-brain scenario?
Tests whether you know split-brain means two nodes both believe they're the leader/primary after a partition, each accepting writes independently -- and that the fix is quorum-based consensus (requiring a majority to elect a leader) so only one side of the partition can ever have enough votes to act.
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