Deck 6: Linking Data

Question 1

The Internet has become a platform for storing both applications and ____ and for building complex Web-based applications.

A) computers
B) data
C) systems
D) information

Answer 1

data

Question 2

Rather than storing data or installing applications on a user's own computer or on a company's own server, data is stored and applications are run on servers operated by companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and ____.

A) Salesforce
B) Dell
C) Cisco
D) Hewlett Packard

Answer 2

Salesforce

Question 3

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the delivery of ____.

A) software applications over the Internet
B) a computing platform over the Internet
C) a networked computing infrastructure over the Internet
D) software applications over the Intranets

Answer 3

a networked computing infrastructure over the Internet

Question 4

Some Cloud storage applications automatically ____ and synchronize files.

A) update
B) rotate
C) publish
D) back up

Question 5

Windows SkyDrive, ZumoDrive, and ____ are three examples of storage in the Cloud.

A) Google
B) IBM
C) Dropbox
D) Facebook

Question 6

Through a process known as ____, one host machine may be configured to operate as if it were several smaller, special-purpose servers.

A) pagination
B) memorization
C) virtualization
D) fragmentation

Question 7

Virtual servers are administered remotely using virtual server management software such as ____.

A) Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
B) IBM Virtual Server
C) Windows NT
D) Novell Netware

Question 8

Amazon turned the lessons that they learned about scalability and ____ into a business opportunity.

A) visibility
B) fragmentation
C) virtualization
D) pagination

Question 9

Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides browser-based tools to develop and deploy ____, without having to purchase, install, or maintain any hardware or software.

A) intranet systems
B) Web feeds
C) virtual servers
D) Web applications

Question 10

SaaS applications are hosted in ____.

A) the Cloud
B) Virtual Private Networks
C) intranets
D) Sky servers

Question 11

-Both Gmail and ____ Web Access provide access to e-mail messages from within the browser, as shown in the accompanying figure.

A) Microsoft Hotmail
B) Mozilla Firefox
C) Windows Internet Explorer
D) Microsoft Office Outlook

Question 12

-As shown in the accompanying figure, Outlook Web Access brings many features of the Microsoft Outlook desktop application to a(n) ____.

A) intranet
B) Web browser
C) VPN
D) Web feed

Question 13

-As shown in the accompanying figure, the ____ Service Cloud monitors conversations about a company's products that take place in Internet discussion forums, blogs, Google searches, and social networks.

A) Force.com
B) Google
C) Salesforce
D) Microsoft

Question 14

-In the accompanying figure, the Salesforce Service Cloud is a social CRM application available as a(n) ____.

A) Infrastructure as a Service
B) Software as a Service
C) Freemium service
D) Platform as a Service

Question 15

Travelocity's application requests data from Weather Underground by calling its Web service through its ____.

A) XML
B) plug-in
C) API
D) script

Question 16

An application that makes use of Web services is said to have a(n) ____.

A) Internet-oriented architecture (IOA)
B) object-oriented architecture (OOA)
C) Web-oriented architecture (WOA)
D) service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Question 17

-The accompanying figure displays the structure of the XML tags that the Twitter ____ uses to describe a user.

A) RSS feed
B) plug-in
C) API
D) tweet

Question 18

-In the accompanying figure, the structure of the XML tags describe a Twitter ____.

A) tweet
B) RSS feed
C) API
D) profile

Question 19

-After logging in to Google Docs with your Google ID, Google Docs displays your Google Docs ____, as shown in the accompanying figure.

A) desktop
B) settings
C) profile
D) account

Question 20

-In the accompanying figure, the Google Docs desktop displays your Google documents, spreadsheets, and ____.

A) presentations
B) e-mail messages
C) databases
D) blogs

Question 21

Google Presentations provides a hyperlink to the presentation and ____ to embed the presentation within a blog or Web site.

A) HTML code
B) Java code
C) XML code
D) script code

Question 22

Capabilities from ____ are implemented within Google Documents.

A) Google Books
B) Google Chrome
C) Google Translate
D) Google Images

Question 23

Google Spreadsheets offers an online ____ called Google Forms to create forms for surveys.

A) scheduler
B) code
C) editor
D) feed

Question 24

The Google Forms results summary displays the responses to the survey as a ____.

A) document
B) chart
C) database
D) spreadsheet

Question 25

Like all spreadsheet formulas, a formula to invoke GoogleLookup must begin with an equal sign (=) followed by the name of the function and its ____.

A) arguments
B) formula
C) ID
D) subject

Question 26

With GoogleLookup, hovering over the cell displays a dialog box with ____.

A) several hyperlinks from which the cell information can be obtained
B) the same default values used to initialize the search
C) a hyperlink to the Web site from which the information was obtained
D) comparative values found in different Web sites

Question 27

The ____ function imports a table or list from a Web page into a Google spreadsheet.

A) ImportXML
B) ImportHTML
C) ImportFeed
D) GoogleLookup

Question 28

Selecting the Show formula bar from the ____ will display the formula associated with the active cell in a formula bar above the column headings at the top of the Google spreadsheet.

A) View menu
B) Format menu
C) Tools menu
D) Form menu

Question 29

Web sites such as MSN, iGoogle, and myYahoo are examples of ____.

A) Web applications
B) Cloud storage
C) Cloud computing
D) portal pages

Question 30

Facebook Connect is a set of APIs that enable applications to allow users to share their ____ across many different Web sites.

A) music and videos
B) comments and messages
C) identities and activities
D) contacts and groups

Question 31

Your account on several Web sites serves as your ____.

A) VeriSign
B) OpenID
C) LiveID
D) claimID

Question 32

By using OpenID, users need only remember a single ____ to access many different Web sites.

A) e-mail address
B) URL
C) keyword
D) username

Question 33

SongLyricsBook is a mashup that combines data from LyricsFly, YouTube, and ____.

A) Bing APIs
B) Yahoo APIs
C) Google APIs
D) Twitter APIs

Question 34

SpotCrime displays the locations of criminal incident reports on a ____ to illustrate where crime takes place in a neighborhood.

A) Google Spreadsheet
B) Google Blog
C) Google Map
D) Google Images

Question 35

Web 2.0 is a database-backed Web where information is exchanged through RSS feeds, Web services, APIs, and ____ technologies.

A) XML
B) e-mail
C) HTML
D) chat

Question 36

Web 3.0 proposes a Web where both people and ideas are connected with each other and where personal Web assistants, called ____, can make decisions and take actions based on a user's preferences and past behaviors.

A) mashups
B) agents
C) APIs
D) portals

Question 37

Text-based search engines, such as Google, use a set of ____ to find relevant pages on the Web that match the terms that you enter.

A) APIs
B) cookies
C) algorithms
D) mashups

Question 38

Bing takes a(n) ____ approach to search.

A) exponential
B) logarithmic
C) trigonometric
D) semantic

Question 39

____ adds structure to search results by providing the results in a table, or square, instead of as a list of Web sites.

A) Google Chrome
B) Google Squared
C) Google Bing
D) Google Directory

Question 40

In Google Squared, users can search for and display additional attributes by adding a new column and can add additional ____ to the category by adding a new row.

A) URLs
B) items
C) fields
D) tags

Question 41

In the hybrid Cloud, files and resources are stored on a(n) ____.

A) user's computer
B) organization's internal network
C) user´s desks
D) service provider's servers in the Cloud

Question 42

Unlike a physical server, where ____ is/are limited by installed hardware, capabilities may be reconfigured dynamically on a virtual server.

A) applications
B) storage
C) memory
D) processing capacity

Question 43

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resources to ____ memory and processing power as needed in order to run Web applications over Amazon's computing environment.

A) increase
B) decelerate
C) accelerate
D) decrease

Question 44

Some Web services provide transactional services, such as ____.

A) credit card processing
B) tracking United Parcel Service (UPS) packages
C) tracking FedEx packages
D) plotting locations on Google Maps

Question 45

In distributed application architecture, the ____ handles the interchange of information.

A) presentation tier
B) middle tier
C) business logic tier
D) database tier

Question 46

Web 3.0 has become characterized by applications that connect people and technologies that link data.

Question 47

The Cloud represents the Web, as its frequent use in many computer network diagrams often suggests.

Question 48

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the delivery of software applications over the Internet.

Question 49

Infrastructure as a Service offers computing resources on demand to individuals and organizations that need them.

Question 50

ZumoDrive appears as a virtual drive on your computer in Windows Explorer.

Question 51

Cloud storage is especially useful for users of desktop computers.

Question 52

Whenever you log in to G.ho.st, your files and applications are always available.

Question 53

Many IaaS providers offer browser-based development tools that can be used by developers to design and build applications that are then deployed on the Web or to mobile devices.

Question 54

-Gmail, seen in the accompanying figure, is an entirely Web-based e-mail service.

Question 55

-The Salesforce Service Cloud, seen in the accompanying figure, is a business application that runs in the Cloud.

Question 56

In the Twitter API, the people who you follow are known as your friends.

Question 57

-In the accompanying figure, a <status> tag contains information about the user's most recent tweet.

Question 58

Applications make use of XPath information to extract similar data items from a text document into a list.

Question 59

-As shown in the accompanying figure, Google Docs offers a way to create a new document, spreadsheet, form, or database.

Question 60

Google Docs always makes the most recent version of a document, presentation, or spreadsheet available to those with whom it is shared.

Question 61

Google Documents uses a different API as Google Translate to perform the translation from one language to another.

Question 62

The Google Spreadsheet function ImportHTML imports content from the Google News Web feed.

Question 63

You can use Google Sets and GoogleLookup in a Google spreadsheet to find multiple values.

Question 64

The ImportHTML function has two arguments.

Question 65

Facebook Connect is similar to Google's Friend Connect.

Question 66

The ProgrammableWeb reports that mapping mashups are the most popular type of mashup.

Question 67

In a word cloud, the more times that a word appears, the smaller it will appear in the chart.

Question 68

Web 2.0 is about participation.

Question 69

The semantic search engine Alpha infers meaning from a user's search query.

Question 70

Web 3.0 will mark the shift from a Web where users participate to one where intelligent agents anticipate the needs and actions of users.

Question 71

Each IaaS provider offers developers the storage, processing, and bandwidth necessary to deploy, manage, and host scalable Internet applications

Question 72

Web services are APIs that Web applications can request to run over the Internet.

Question 73

-The accompanying figure displays a button for options to upload a document from your profile into Google Docs.

Question 74

With Google Sets, after entering one or two related values in a spreadsheet, point the mouse at the cell's handle in the lower right corner, press the CTRL key, and drag the cell down several rows.

Question 75

Content for mashups often comes from Web feeds and RSS feeds, both of which structure their data in XML format.

Question 76

____________________ is the delivery of software applications over the Internet.

Question 77

Users may identify ____________________ on their computer to associate with ZumoDrive.

Question 78

Virtual servers may be used as a sandbox, or ____________________ environment, for developing or evaluating new Web applications.

Question 79

The ____________________ provider monitors an application's performance and facilitates scalability by providing additional computing resources and data storage.

Question 80

SaaS providers manage their applications from central servers accessed remotely from a Web ____________________.