350-401 · Question #497
350-401 Question #497: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation
The correct answer is B: The command succeeded in deleting the object. HTTP 204 No Content – DELETE Response Explained Option B is correct because HTTP status code 204 "No Content" indicates that the server successfully processed the request but has no content to return in the response body - in the context of a DELETE request, this means the resour
Question
"HTTP/1.1 204 No Content" is returned when the curl -i -X DELETE command is issued. Which situation has occurred?
Options
- AThe object could not be located at the URI path.
- BThe command succeeded in deleting the object
- CThe object was located at the URI, but it could not be deleted.
- DThe URI was invalid
Explanation
HTTP 204 No Content – DELETE Response Explained
Option B is correct because HTTP status code 204 "No Content" indicates that the server successfully processed the request but has no content to return in the response body - in the context of a DELETE request, this means the resource was found and successfully deleted.
The distractors are wrong because:
- A (object not found) would return a 404 Not Found response
- C (found but couldn't delete) would return a 403 Forbidden or 500 Internal Server Error
- D (invalid URI) would return a 400 Bad Request or 404 Not Found
🧠 Memory Tip: Think of 204 as "mission accomplished, nothing left to show you" - the DELETE worked, the resource is gone, so there's literally no content to return. Any error scenario (can't find it, can't delete it, bad URI) would always return a 4xx or 5xx error code, never a 2xx success code.
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