Which mechanism is used to consume a RESTful API design when large amounts of data are returned?

The correct answer is D. Pagination. Pagination breaks a large dataset into discrete, manageable pages or chunks. The API client requests one page at a time (e.g., using query parameters like ?page=2&limit=100), which prevents server overload and avoids transmitting huge payloads in a single response. Scrolling is…

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AData sets
BScrolling
CBlobs
DPagination

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Pagination breaks a large dataset into discrete, manageable pages or chunks. The API client requests one page at a time (e.g., using query parameters like ?page=2&limit=100), which prevents server overload and avoids transmitting huge payloads in a single response. Scrolling is a UI concept, blobs are a binary data storage type, and 'data sets' is not a REST architectural mechanism for handling large responses.

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