Enterprise Computing – Question Bank

Unit – I

PART – A

1. Define Enterprise Computing.

2. Suggest the need of Enterprise Computing
3. List out the components of Enterprise Computing
4. List out the common services for Distributed
Enterprise Communication
5. How can we employ information technology by an
enterprise system?
6. Abbreviate the Following:
i) ERP v) CORBA ix) JTS xiii) EJB
ii) B2B vi) RMI x) JMS xiv) JNDI
iii) EAI vii) SPI xi) COM xv) IIOP
iv) B2C viii) API xii) DCOM xvi) GIOP
xviii) CLOB xvii) BLOB
7. State TRUE or FALSE
Distributed processing means that the resources from one
computer are distributed across many clients in the network

8. How will you avoid undesired behavior of your software

from a direct manipulation?
9. Differentiate RDBMSs an ODBMSs
10. What are the responsibilities of Middle tier?
11. Describe about Batch updates.
12. Classify: JDBC Drivers
13. What are the types of statement?
14. Difference between prepared statement and Callable
statement.
15. What are the methods inherited from interface
java.sql.PreparedStatement?
16. What are the methods inherited from interface
java.sql.Statement?
17. Define BLOB and CLOB
18. Define Stored Procedure.
19. Write a short note on Component Model Interfaces
20. How can we improve the reliability of Enterprise
software?
21. Write the function of
i) DDL Compiler iii) Query Manager
ii) DML Compiler iv) Physical Storage Manager
22. How can we manage a transaction in DBMS?
23. Define Schema
24. Write down the steps involved in configuring various
JDBC driver types
25. How can you obtain information about query results in
JDBC?
26. Tell the function of DriverManager.
27. Illustrate a typical configuration for Type 2 JDBC
Drivers.
28. Illustrate a typical configuration for Type 3 JDBC
Drivers.
29. Illustrate a typical configuration for Type 4 JDBC
Drivers.
30. Classify: ResultSet types
31. What do you think about obtaining connection from JNDI
and DriverManager.

PART – B

1. How will you enable enterprise software with a higher

degree of reliability?
2. Discuss in detail about object oriented software
development for the enterprise.
3. How information technology is utilized by the
enterprise?
4. Explain in detail about Updateable Result Sets in JDBC
2.0
5. What do you mean by hierarchy of Exceptions? Give a
Detailed note on SQLException
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING – QUESTION BANK

UNIT – II – DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION ENABLING

PART - A

1. How does CORBA differ from RMI in distributed Java programming?

2. What are the responsibilities of ORB?
3. Which protocol is used for invoking methods on CORBA object over the
internet?
4. Write a short note on object adaptors.
5. What are the Files generated for each interface by the idl2java compiler?
6. What is an interface Repository?
7. What is callback mechanism in CORBA? Explain with an example.
8. Explain Naming service in CORBA.
9. What do you know about RMI?
10. Define the terms marshalling and unmarshalling in RMI?
11. How do we build a simple client/server application by using RMI?
12. What are the responsibilities of remote reference layer in RMI
architecture?
13. Write down the packages and tools available in RMI.
14. Define JRMP and its message header format.
15. Define IIOP
16. What are the sub protocols identifiers in JRMP?
17. Classify the JRMP message types
18. Describe about Multiplex stream protocol.
19. Define RMI/IIOP
20. Define RMI/JRMP
21. What are the advantages of RMI? Explain the working principle of RMI with
suitable example.
22. Explain the components of ORB Architecture.
23. How CORBA is related with Java? Give example.
24. State the need of callbacks.
25. What is ORB?
26. Give account on IDL.
27. List the benefits of COM
28. Describe CORBA Naming service
29. What are the advantages of CORBA?
30. What does CORBA provide?
31. Give some of the features supported by POA?
32. Explain briefly about callbacks with example
33. What are the essential parts of CORBA?
34. What are the requirements need to work invocation interfaces and object
adapters?
35. What are the requirements need to work invocation interfaces and object
adapters?
36. Specify any four services supporting enterprise distributed computing.
37. What is push model?
38. What is pull model?

PART – B

1.Draw the Object Management Architecture and explain in detail the CORBA services.
2.Write in detail about CORBA component model
3.Explain in detail about DCOM with its Architecture
4. Explain briefly about the CORBA services
• Services supporting enterprise distributed computing.
• Services supporting architecture using fine-grained objects.
5.Explain the CORBA component model.
• Portable object adapter
• CCM components
• CCM containers
6. Explain briefly about IDL interface.
_ IDL interface
_ Modules
_ Data types
UNIT IV – ENTERPRISE WEB ENABLING

QUESTION BANK

1. What are the types of directives in JSP?

2. Describe the java script global functions in detail.
3. Define JSP.
4. What is meant by Plug-in?
5. Define a servlet.
6. What do you understand by JSP attributes?
7. Why do we require super.init(config) in servlets?
8. How can we know whether we need jsp or servlet in a project?
9. Define the servlet interface.
10. Points of difference between GenericServlet and HttpServlet.
11. How to find out whether the session will be alive or not.
12. Explain the significance of deployment descriptor in servlet.
13. What changes are observed after increasing the buffer size using attribute buffer’?
14. Explain the points of difference between ServletConfig and ServletContext.
15. Which two objects are accepted when a servlet receives a call from a client?
16. Explain the difference between GET and POST service methods.
17. When is it necessary to use the ServletContext?
18. What is the order in which the following methods are called? service(),do get() and dopost()
19. Why no constructor is provided in servlet?
20. Can a constructor be written in servlet?
21. What is the function of Servletconfig and ServletContext?
22. What do you mean by action=get?
23. Define the Singleton class. How is it written?
24. Explain the difference between sendRedirect () and forward ()?
25. Which is faster – sendRedirect () or forward ()?
26. What information is provided by the ServletResponse Interface to the servlet methods?
27. How can a JSP error page be invoked by a servlet?
28. What is the way to override an init method in servlets?
29. What is the number of ServletConfig and Servlet context objects in a single application?
30. Explain the need of Servlets.
31. Is it possible to abort the processing of JSP?
32. Can we servlet be used to create both dynamic and static WebPages?
33. Explain the difference between JSP and servlets.
34. What are the merits of servlets over CGI?
35. How can the servlets in two difference applications communicate with each other?
36. How does a server find out when to invoke the init or destroy methods of servlet?
37. Explain the difference between servlets and applets.
38. What is the method of passing an argument from one servlet to another?
39. How do we add jsp to the servlet?
40. How are client requests handled by the Http servlet?
41. Explain the difference between multi thread and single thread model servlet.
42. How is communication made between servlet and applet?
43. What are the parameters of servlet context?
44. What do you understand by the servlet life cycle?
45. What are the different kinds of servlets?
46. How can we receive one servlet’s context information at another servlet?
47. What lines of code are necessary before the use of PrintWriter?
48. How does the Java Server Pages technology work?
49. What is a JSP page?
50. How do JSP pages work?
51. Does JSP technology require the use of other Java platform APIs?
52. How is a JSP page invoked and compiled?
53. What you will handle the runtime exception in your jsp page?
54. What is a JSP and what is it used for?
55. What is the difference between custom JSP tags and beans?
56. What are the two kinds of comments in JSP and what’s the difference between them.
57. What are the implicit objects?
58. How many JSP Scripting elements and what are they?
59. How many messaging models do JMS provide for and what are they?
60. What Class.forName will do while loading drivers?
61. How can I enable session tracking for JSP pages if the browser has
disabled cookies?
62. What are the two major protocols for accessing email from servers?
63. What is XSL and why it is used
64. What is the use of web services?
65. What are the advantages of web services?
66. List out some web service technologies?
67. What is XML?
68. Explain about the DTD features?
69. Describe the role that XSL can play when dynamically generating HTML pages
from a relational database?
70. Explain about DOM interface?
71. What three essential components of security does the XML Signatures
provide?
72. Can you walk us through the steps necessary to parse XML documents?
73. Can I use the same prefix for more than one XML namespace?
74. State some features of XQuery?
75. How can u create an XML file?
76. Give some examples of XML DTDs or schemas that you have worked with.
77. Is XML case-sensitive?
78. Explain about XML signature?
79. What is an XML namespace name?
80. Explain about XML namespaces?
81. What is XQuery?
82. What's XLink?
83. Explain about XQuery?
84. What is XML-RPC?
85. Can I use XML namespaces in DTDs?
86. Differences Between XML and xlink?
87. Differences between XML and HTML?
88. What r XML files and how do you read data from XML files and what stage to
be used?
89. What is WSDL?
90. What are Web Services?
91. What are the uses of web services?
92. Explain DTD for XML schemas
93. Write a note on proxy server.

PART-B

1. What does JSP scripting component include? Explain with a program.

2. Describe the servlet architecture and the various interfaces invoked by
the servlet container
3. Describe JSP standard actions. How does a standard action provide JSP
implementers with access to several of the most common tasks performed in
JSP?
4. Use a one dimensional array and write a script to solve the following
problem. Read in 20 numbers, each of which is between 10 and 100. As each
number is read, print it only if it is not a duplicate of a number that
has already been read.
5. Write a script that inputs a telephone number as a string in the form (555)555-555. The script should
use strings method split to extract the area code as token and the last four digits of the phone numbers
as a token. Display the area code in one test field and the seven digit phone number in another text
field.
6. Write a servlet program that handles HTTP get request containing data that
is supplied by the user as a part of the request.
7. Explain the difference between get request and post request type.
8. Write a servlet program for inter servlet (Servlet – to – Servlet)
Communication.
9. Write a servlet program to retrieve data from the database (Use your own
data base)
10. a) Write a java script program to randomly display the image from a image
pool.
b) Design your own personal webpage using forms and get the values, use
all the form elements and validate the same using script.
11. Explain in detail about distributed object model
12. Describe the system architecture of a multi-tier application.
13. How document manipulation is done with XML document object module and
explain in detail the various methods of DOM.
14. Explain the concept of web services.
15. Explain xml schema with an example
16. How to build the web applications? Explain the steps?
17. Develop the web page for student management system using WEB SERVICES
18. Develop the web page for library management system using WEB SERVICES
19. Develop the web page for railway reservation system using WEB SERVICES
20. Explain Web Services ARCHITECTURE
21. What is meant by CGI? Explain in detail about CGI environment variables.
22. How do you integrate CGI with HTML pages? Explain with an example.
23. Explain with neat diagram of Jini component architecture
Unit 5555

EJB

1. What is EJB architecture(components)?

2. What is the difference between ejbCreate() and ejbPostCreate?
3. Can I invoke Runtime.gc() in an EJB?
4. Why an onMessage call in Message-driven bean is always a seperate transaction?
5. How do you check whether the session is active in Stateful session bean ?
6. What is the difference between EJB and RMI
7. What is the difference between ejbStore() and ejbLoad()?
8. What is meant by Serialization and Externalization? Serialization is a Marker
interface,so what is the use of WriteObject() anf ReadObject(), Where it is
actually used? Give me some real time examples?
9. Which are features in EJB 2.0 ? and which are features in EJB 3.0?
10. The EJB container implements the EJBHome and EJBObject classes. For every
request from a unique client, does the container create a separate instance
of the generated EJBHome and EJBObject classes?
11. What is ejbdoc? difference between connector,server,container?
12. What is the difference between ejbCreate() and ejbPostCreate()?
13. What is Instance pooling?
14. What is the difference between normal Java object and EJB?
15. How will you propagate exception thrown inside session bean to JSP or
Servlet client?
16. What is the difference between JNDI context, Initial context, session
context and ejb context?
17. Is it legal to have static initializer blocks in EJB?
18. What is the difference between the NRU and LRU cache?
19. What is the difference between EAR, JAR and WAR file