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Chapter 8 Flashcards

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Which of the following have affected the way businesses use computing systems to meet the demand of the competitive marketplace?

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A) GUI evolutions B) Networking advances C) Communication changes D) All of the above

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2) Which of the following is a component of processing logic?

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D) Business rules

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A client PC that is responsible for processing presentation logic, extensive application and business rules logic as well as many DBMS functions is called a(n):

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D) fat client.

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

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A) Application partitioning

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Which of the following is not a common distribution logic for two-tiered server environments?

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A) Fat client

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________ 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.

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B) Middleware

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

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A) API

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8
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An application programming interface that enables an application program to process RDBMS databases meets the:

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B) open database connectivity standard.

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A PC configured to handle user interface with little or no local storage is called a:

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C) thin client.

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A Web server:

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B) processes client requests and returns HTML pages to the client.

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The main difference between Java applets and Java servlets is:

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B) servlets are stored on the server while applets are stored on the client.

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Java servlets:

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A) are small programs that execute from within another application rather than from the operating system.

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

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A) Microsoft integration.

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

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D) stored procedure

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Which of the following is an advantage of stored procedures?

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D) Performance improves for compiled SQL statements.

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Which of the following is not a disadvantage of stored procedures?

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B) Decreases in network traffic are realized.

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

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C) More technological flexibility

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18
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An emerging trend likely to have an effect on the development of three-tier applications is called:

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C) cloud computing.

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All of the following are characteristics of cloud technologies EXCEPT:

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A) unlimited bandwidth.

20
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) is:

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

21
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Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an example of:

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B) an XML-based vocabulary.

22
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________ facilitates the ability of applications to query relational data along with associated structured data.

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A) XPath

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All of the following are newer XML schema languages EXCEPT:

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A) Document Type Declarations (DTDs).

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When an XML document is shredded, each element is:

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C) stored in a relational table.

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

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D) Convert to text

26
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FLWOR is an acronym for:

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B) For, LET, Where OrderBy, Return.

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

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B) XSLT

28
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Web services:

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

29
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The promise of Web services is the development of a standardized communication system using:

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C) XML.

30
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Client/server describes a networked computing model that distributes processes between computers that request services and computers that provide services.

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TRUE

31
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Business rules logic includes such activities as data validation and identification of processing errors.

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FALSE

32
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The storage component of a client/server architecture is responsible for data storage and retrieval from the physical storage devices associated with the application.

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TRUE

33
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A fat client does most of its processing on the server.

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FALSE

34
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Application partitioning gives developers the opportunity to write application code that can later be placed on either a client workstation or a server, depending upon which location will give the best performance.

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TRUE

35
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When developing an application, one must decide where it will be placed when it is developed.

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FALSE

36
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An API is a set of routines that a database server uses to access database objects.

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FALSE

37
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ODBC is an application programming interface that provides a common language for application programs to access and process an SQL database independent of the particular RDBMS that is accessed.

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TRUE

38
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In some three-tier architectures, most application code is stored on the application server.

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TRUE

39
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Java servlets execute from within another program and reside on the server.

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TRUE

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PHP is a platform for Web development.

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TRUE

41
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Two-tier architectures are much more scalable than three-tier architectures.

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FALSE

42
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Three-tier architectures generally result in higher long-term costs.

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FALSE

43
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Cloud computing will have a limited impact on three-tier applications.

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FALSE

44
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The presentation logic component of a client/server system is responsible for formatting and presenting data on the user’s screen.

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TRUE

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