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How are authentication and authorization implemented in your application?
Tests whether you clearly separate the two concerns -- authentication verifies who the caller is (via a filter validating credentials/token), authorization checks what that verified identity is allowed to do (via role/permission checks) -- and can describe the concrete mechanism used, not just the theory.
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