CIS 330 Chapter 8

thin

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

processes client requests and returns HTML pages to the client.

A Web server:

UDDI

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

fat

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

stored procedure

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

API

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

infinite bandwidth.

All of the following are characteristics of cloud technologies EXCEPT:

Document Type Declarations (DTDs).

All of the following are newer XML schema languages EXCEPT:

XQuery.

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

three-tier architectures.

Cloud computing relies most heavily on:

an XML-based vocabulary.

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

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

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is:

For, LET, Where OrderBy, Return.

FLWOR is an acronym for:

JDBC

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

Microsoft integration.

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

Simple Object Access Protocol Method.

SOAP stands for:

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

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are:

application logic components

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

XML

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

cloud

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

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

Web services:

stored in a relational table.

When an XML document is shredded, each element is:

PL/SQL

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

Convert to text

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

Business rules

Which of the following is a component of processing logic?

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

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

Performance improves for compiled SQL statements.

Which of the following is an advantage of stored procedures?

Tends to involve fatter clients than two-tier architectures

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

retrieve data from XML documents.

XPath and XQuery are both technologies used to:

XQuery

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

XSLT

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

XML

________ 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.

Application partitioning

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

Middleware

________ 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.