CIS 330 CH 8 Quiz

A(n) ________ is a set of application routines that programs use to direct the performance of procedures by the computer's operating system.

Application Program Interface

________ is the process of assigning pieces of application code to clients or servers.

Application partitioning

Which of the following is a component of processing logic?

Business rules

Which of the following is NOT a method for storing XML documents?

Convert to text

All of the following are newer XML schema languages EXCEPT:

Document Type Declarations (DTDs).

________ is a scripting language that allows for the creation of customized tags, and is often used to facilitate exchange of data between applications over the Web.

Extensible Markup Language

FLWOR is an acronym for:

For, LET, Where OrderBy, Return.

If you write a database application in a Java program, you are most likely to use the ________ API.

JDBC

PHP is a popular API for MySQL because of all of the following EXCEPT:

Microsoft integration.

________ is/are any of several classes of software that allow an application to interoperate with other software without requiring the user to understand all software involved.

Middleware

Which language would you expect to see in a stored procedure?

PL/SQL

Which of the following is an advantage of stored procedures?

Performance improves for compiled SQL statements.

SOAP stands for:

Simple Object Access Protocol Method.

Which of the following is false about three-tier architectures?

Tends to involve fatter clients than two-tier architectures

Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about stored procedures?

There can be significant network traffic increases using stored procedures as processing moves from client to server.

A technical specification for creating a distributed registry of Web services and businesses that are open to communicating through Web services is called:

UDDI Simple Object Access Protocol Method.

The promise of Web services is the development of a standardized communication system using:

XML.

________ facilitates the ability of applications to query relational data along with associated structured data.

XQuery

An XML transformation language that allows applications to query both XML data and relational databases is called:

XQuery.

________ is a language used to transform complex XML documents and also to create HTML pages from XML documents.

XSLT

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are:

a collection of services that communicate with each other in some manner.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is:

a scripting language that allows the creation of customized tags to enable easier sharing of data across organizations.

Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an example of:

an XML-based vocabulary.

The client/server architectures that have evolved can be distinguished by the distribution of ________ across clients and servers.

application logic components

Web services:

are a set of emerging standards for protocols for automatic communication between software over the Web.

The the main idea behind ________ computing refers to a model for providing ubiquitous, convenient and on-demand access to shared computing resources.

cloud

A(n) _______ client is a PC that is responsible for processing presentation logic, extensive application and business rules logic and even DBMS functions.

fat

All of the following are characteristics of cloud technologies EXCEPT:

infinite bandwidth.

A Web server:

processes client requests and returns HTML pages to the client.

XPath and XQuery are both technologies used to:

retrieve data from XML documents.

When an XML document is shredded, each element is:

stored in a relational table.

A(n) ________ is a module of code written in SQL or some proprietary language to run business rules from within a database server.

stored procedure

A PC configured to handle user interface with little or no local storage is called a(n) _______ client.

thin

Cloud computing relies most heavily on:

three-tier architectures.