Exam 8: Database Application Development

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

Web Services Description Language is an XML-based grammar.

Explain how XML documents are retrieved.

A client/server configuration that has three layers (one client and two servers)has a ________.

Lack of secure standards and lack of user acceptance are the major issues that must be resolved with Web services.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)is a communications protocol used to transfer browser requests to a Web server and to transfer pages from the Web server back to the browser.

________ is the application logic component responsible for data storage and retrieval.

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

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

A PC configured to handle user interfaces with limited local storage is called a ________.

What are Web services?

XQuery is an HTML transformation language used to query HTML pages.

HTML is an acronym for:

The ________ specification allows drivers to conform to various levels of the specification,and that affects the level of functionality of the drivers.

Explain how middleware is used in a two-tier application.

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

The fundamental authoring language used to create documents for the Web is SGML,an acronym for Standard Generalized Markup Language.

UDDI stands for Underwritten Data Dictionary Inquiry.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)is a scripting language based upon SGML that allows the creation of customized tags.

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