MCP & Protocol Testing / Quiz

Tools vs Resources vs Prompts

MCP exposes three server primitives with three different owners. Pick the wrong one and your integration fights the protocol.

Difficulty
Easy
Format
Quiz
Points
100
Estimate
10 min

// MISSION BRIEF

Your Mission

MCP servers expose exactly three primitives: tools, resources, and prompts. They look similar in JSON but differ in one crucial axis, who is in control. Knowing that axis tells you where to put a capability and how to test it.

Scoring: equal-weight questions. No traps in the phrasing, the traps are in the distractors.

// FIRST CONTACT

Battle teaser

Which primitive is model-controlled, an executable function the LLM decides to invoke to take an action?

  1. AA prompt
  2. BA resource
  3. CA tool
  4. DA notification
Answers, scoring, hints, and the full battle stay sealed.

// SKILL TAGS

mcpprotocol-testingresourcestoolsprompts