codex-lv4-may-2025

Badge Interview Week 7

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Objective

Interview on a JSON API built with Lambda and API Gateway.

Requirements

1. Live session with a TA or instructor.
2. Open your deployed API URL and the linked Lambda in the console.
3. Send a request with the required query parameter (for example, ?name=alice) and show a 200 response with JSON.
4. Send a request without the parameter and show a 400 response with a JSON error message.
5. Explain where the handler reads the query parameter, how status codes are set, and how API Gateway is configured for the route.

Live tasks (perform one or two as requested)

• Modify the request to use a different parameter value and verify the JSON output updates.
• Trigger the missing-parameter path and confirm the 400 behavior and error body.
• Add a quick log statement and show it in CloudWatch logs.
• Point to the exact endpoint path and required parameter in your README.

Submission

Git repo link and API URL.

Rubric (20 pts)

• Lambda and API work end to end 0-5
• Error handling present 0-5
• Project runs from README 0-5
• Configuration clarity 0-5