SWF

Question 1

What is a Decider?

Answer 1

A program that controls the coordination of tasks - ordering, concurrency, scheduling - according to the application logic.

Question 2

__________ are programs that interact with SWF to get tasks, process received tasks, and return the results.

Answer 2

Workers.

Question 3

What is Amazon SWF?

Answer 3

Simple Workflow Service.

SWF is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components.

Question 4

What is a Worker?

Answer 4

A program that gets tasks from SWF, processes those tasks, and returns the results.

Question 5

True or False: Workers and Deciders can run on cloud infrastructure only.

Answer 5

False.

The can run on cloud infrastructure or on machines behind firewalls.

Question 6

__________ is a one-time step that you perform for each different type of workflows and activities.

Answer 6

Registration

Question 7

A __________ is a program that controls the coordination of tasks - ordering, concurrency, scheduling - according to the application logic.

Answer 7

Decider

Question 8

A logical container for your application resources is called a __________.

Answer 8

Domain