Why might you not want to include groupId and version elements in child POM files?

The settings.xml file that provides the user-specific settings for Maven is contained in which directory by default?

Suppose you are using Maven in a corporate environment and, to save bandwidth, you want to prevent the need for large numbers of developers to download the same dependency from the internet. What do you do to limit this?

In multimodule projects, what do child POMs inherit from the parent POM?

Which build plugin allows you to create a "fat" JAR file that contains all of the dependencies in the final JAR file?

What is the default scope for Maven dependencies?

When two dependencies of your Maven project introduce the same transitive dependency with different versions, which one(s) will be included in the dependency list for your project?

What is a valid packaging type for a Maven project?

When building a Maven Archetype, what is the filepath and file of the archetype descriptor that specifies how to lay out the prototype files?

When performing a build, which Maven plugin will allow you to set the specific version of the artifact to be built without manual modifying the pom.xml file?

When building a web application with a WAR type project, which project directory should contain the style sheet, JavaScript, and other static file?