You can know a library that does exactly what the question wants, if anything that's a plus, but you should roughly know how something like that actually works.

You can know a library that does exactly what the question wants, if anything that's a plus, but you should roughly know how something like that actually works. Even if the person interviewing is for a developer relations position, a job they were already doing pre-acquisition? Also there is something very inhuman about calling the process "allocation".