Question 1
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Which of the following is true about typical RPC
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Synchronous and transient
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Synchronous and persistent
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Nonblocking and transient
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Synchronous and temporary
Question 2
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What is not a common protocol that middleware provides?
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Security
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Transaction
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Message queuing
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Concurrency
Question 3
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Which of these is not a type of synchronicity?
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Persistent asynchronous communication
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Receipt-based transient synchronous communication
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Response-based transient synchronous communication
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Multicast response synchronization
Question 4
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This is not an interleaved transmission
Question 5
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Which of the following is false about publish-subscribe
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One message might be delivered to multiple recipients
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Subscriptions may be conditional upon the content of the message
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The broker is responsible for deciding which subscribers should receive the message
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The sender specifies which recipients should receive the message
Question 6
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Which of these is NOT an issue resolved by Parameter marshaling?
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Client and server have different data representations
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Client and server have to agree on the same encoding
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Interpreting data and transforming it into machine dependent
representation
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Generating stubs to interface with server side application
Question 7
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What does Message-oriented communication typically allow over traditional RPC?
Question 8
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When is stream-oriented communication appropriate?
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When the the temporal relationship between different data items is essential
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When large blocks of data such as video files are involved
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When reliable communication is not required
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When buffering is not acceptable
Question 9
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Which of the following is true about Persistent synchronous communication if the recipient is not running
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The message is stored and the sender receives accepted acknowledgement immediatley
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The message is stored and the sender receives accepted acknowledgement when the recipient starts
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The sender is blocked until the receiver starts
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The message is discarded and the sender is notified when the receiver starts
Question 10
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Which is true about Transient asynchronous communication if the reciever is not running
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The message will not be received but the sender won't be blocked
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The message will be queued until the receiver starts
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The sender will automatically retry until receiver starts
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The message will not be received and the sender will be blocked
Question 11
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Which of the following is true about parameter specifications and stubs?
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Parameters passed by value do generally pose any problems
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It is only possible to pass parameters by value if they are primitive data types
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Interfaces (procedures) are often specified in Interface Definition Languages (IDL) and compiled into stubs
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It is completely impossible to pass parameters by reference
Question 12
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What type of communication is this?
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Receipt-based transient synchronous communication
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Transient asynchronous communication
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Delivery-based transient synchronous communication at
message delivery
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Persistent synchronous communication
Question 13
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What are the basic operations of a message queue?
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Put, Get, Poll, Notify
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Push, Get, Poll, Notify
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Pop, Get, Poll, Subscribe
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Put, Get, Notify, Acknowledge
Question 14
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What is the main role of a message broker?
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To transform messages from sender's format to receive'’s format
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To handle retries if a receiver fails to acknowledge the message
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To manage who is authorized to subscribe to which queue
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To balance messages between multiple storage queues
Question 15
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What does this diagram represent?
Question 16
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Which layer does the middleware layer sit between?
Question 17
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What kind of communication is this?
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Persistent asynchronous communication
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Persistent synchronous communication
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Response-based transient synchronous communication
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Transient asynchronous communication
Question 18
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Is the caller of an RPC usually blocked while waiting for a result?