CSE445 MIDTERM FULL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
What is the key feature of the blackboard architecture (a software architecture)?
All components communicate through a central component
Which law should you use in evaluating the system performance improvement if
you have doubled the processor speed, but kept the other parts of the system
unchanged?
Amdahl's Law
What is the role of distributed software architecture in a distributed system?
It describes how the application functionality is distributed over the logical components.
What is the unique feature of service-oriented computing paradigm that does not
exist in other computing paradigm?
Platform-independent.
What topics will this course focus on?
Distributed-Software Architecture
Distributed Computing
The design pattern specifically deals with the problems of
reusable solution at the level of software design.
What layer does not belong to the traditional three tier architecture?
Service repository.
,What architecture model does not belong to the families of the distributed object
architectures implemented in COBRA or DCOM?
ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
In distributed architecture, what component is called the software bus?
Object request broker (ORB)
XML is
a Meta language that can be used to define another language.
What entity does not belong to the three-party model SOC software
development?
End user of software.
BPEL is primarily
A specific language at a process/workflow level
Which of the following are software architectures?
Pipe and filter,
Blackboard
What does the "operation" in WSDL file correspond to in object-oriented
computing?
A method.
In contrast to objects in object-oriented development, service-oriented
development has these distinct features
A service has a language-independent interface.
A proxy to the service is created in the application.
Multi Tenancy is a key concept in
, Cloud Computing
if you write a program to search a UDDI service broker, what UDDI pages do you
search?
Green Pages
What communication protocol is used for accessing RESTul services?
HTTP
What protocol in the web service protocol stack is normally in the layer directly
below the SOAP protocol?
HTTP
If you want to create a standard service broker with both service directory and
service repository, what standard would you use?
ebXML
What statements best describe the architecture-driven approach?
Elaborating the architecture design into executable
top-down approach
What is the standard language in COBRA that is used to facilitate the
communication and define the interface between objects written in different
programming languages?
IDL
Service-oriented software development achieves the platform-independent
computing by
Creating service proxies in the application.
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
What is the key feature of the blackboard architecture (a software architecture)?
All components communicate through a central component
Which law should you use in evaluating the system performance improvement if
you have doubled the processor speed, but kept the other parts of the system
unchanged?
Amdahl's Law
What is the role of distributed software architecture in a distributed system?
It describes how the application functionality is distributed over the logical components.
What is the unique feature of service-oriented computing paradigm that does not
exist in other computing paradigm?
Platform-independent.
What topics will this course focus on?
Distributed-Software Architecture
Distributed Computing
The design pattern specifically deals with the problems of
reusable solution at the level of software design.
What layer does not belong to the traditional three tier architecture?
Service repository.
,What architecture model does not belong to the families of the distributed object
architectures implemented in COBRA or DCOM?
ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
In distributed architecture, what component is called the software bus?
Object request broker (ORB)
XML is
a Meta language that can be used to define another language.
What entity does not belong to the three-party model SOC software
development?
End user of software.
BPEL is primarily
A specific language at a process/workflow level
Which of the following are software architectures?
Pipe and filter,
Blackboard
What does the "operation" in WSDL file correspond to in object-oriented
computing?
A method.
In contrast to objects in object-oriented development, service-oriented
development has these distinct features
A service has a language-independent interface.
A proxy to the service is created in the application.
Multi Tenancy is a key concept in
, Cloud Computing
if you write a program to search a UDDI service broker, what UDDI pages do you
search?
Green Pages
What communication protocol is used for accessing RESTul services?
HTTP
What protocol in the web service protocol stack is normally in the layer directly
below the SOAP protocol?
HTTP
If you want to create a standard service broker with both service directory and
service repository, what standard would you use?
ebXML
What statements best describe the architecture-driven approach?
Elaborating the architecture design into executable
top-down approach
What is the standard language in COBRA that is used to facilitate the
communication and define the interface between objects written in different
programming languages?
IDL
Service-oriented software development achieves the platform-independent
computing by
Creating service proxies in the application.
