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System Design Quiz Practice
Active Recall Drill Session
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Question 1 of 1
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System Design
A news site caches an article at the CDN with max-age=300 and an editor fixes a typo. Without an explicit purge, how long could readers see the old version?
A
Forever, until the server restarts
B
Up to 5 minutes (300 seconds) — until the CDN's cached copy naturally expires and it re-fetches from origin
C
Zero time, CDNs always detect origin changes instantly
D
Exactly 5 minutes for every single reader simultaneously
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