Data Integration Quiz - Results
The answers you selected are indicated below, along with text that explains the correct answers.
1.
Prior to an engagement, a new member of your team asks you to describe key point associated with data integration middleware. The best way to answer this question would be:
A.
It allows applications and development tools to view disparate data structures as a single data source.
B.
It simplifies homogeneous data environments and offers transactional capabilities.
C.
It ties together two-tier applications and offers transactional capabilities.
D.
It puts in requests to database engines that make use of the particular semantics of a database engine.
The correct answer is A.
Data integration middleware simplifies heterogeneous data environments and allows applications and development tools to view underlying data structures and data sources as a single data source. Answers B and C are incorrect, as data integration middleware does not include transactional capabilities. Answer D is incorrect, as this is a description of a native call.
2.
Message-oriented middleware enables request and reply constructs to be handled:
A.
Synchronously
B.
Asynchronously
C.
Extensively
D.
Alternatively
The correct answer is B
, Asynchronously. Message brokers, a primary component of Message-oriented middleware enables request and reply constructs to be handled asynchronously. Answers A, C, and D are all incorrect.
3.
During an engagement, your client indicates that they would like to use the de facto message-oriented middleware standard. You recommend:
A.
Message Q
B.
MSMQ
C.
Falcon MQ
D.
MQ Series
The correct answer is D
, MQ Series. Owning over half of the first generation of the message-oriented middleware marketplace, IBM's MQ Series has become a defacto standard. While answers A, B, and C are all excellent products, they are not the defacto standard in the message-oriented middleware market.
