Quiz: OpenClaw Overview — OpenClaw Academy

1 What is the primary role of the OpenClaw Gateway?

A message broker that routes between LLM providers only The long-lived control plane that owns all channel connections, sessions, and tool execution A browser automation framework for scraping websites A Docker container that runs LLM models locally

2 Where does OpenClaw store all its state (sessions, transcripts, config)?

In a PostgreSQL database at localhost:5432 In Redis at localhost:6379 In ~/.openclaw/ as JSON/JSONL files — no external database In the cloud at openclaw.ai

3 What technology does OpenClaw use to connect to WhatsApp?

The official WhatsApp Business API (Meta) Baileys (a WhatsApp Web protocol implementation) Twilio's WhatsApp integration Direct XMPP protocol

4 What happens when a message arrives from a sender NOT on the allowlist?

The message is silently dropped The message is forwarded to the owner for manual review A pairing code is sent to the unknown sender and the message is not processed The Gateway shuts down as a security measure

5 Which of these is NOT a core OpenClaw tool available to the agent?

exec (run shell commands) browser (control a web browser) deploy (deploy Docker containers) nodes (control paired iOS/Android devices)

6 What is a 'session' in OpenClaw terms?

An authenticated HTTP session for the Web UI A named conversation context — a unique key mapping to a JSONL transcript and metadata A running process managed by the Gateway supervisor A WebSocket connection from a control client

7 What is the purpose of the workspace files (AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, etc.)?

They are read-only documentation files for the developer They are injected into the agent's context at session start, shaping its behavior and persona They configure the Gateway's networking and security settings They store the session transcripts in human-readable format

📝 Module 1 Quiz: OpenClaw Overview