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Designing Applications for the Network Quiz
February 8, 1999

The Results Are In!

We'd like to thank all of those who took last month's Network Design Manual quiz on Networked Applications. We appreciate your participation and greatly enjoyed your answers. For your edification, we have posted the correct quiz answers below.

A tip of the ole beanie cap to the following winners, who managed to provide us with the correct answers, avoiding the perilous duck and sandwich wrapper question.

  • Joydip Das
  • Chandra C
  • Uday Pai
  • Randy Carlson
  • Mike Arguello

These lucky winners will each receive Amjad Umar's "Object-Oriented Client/Server Internet Environments" as well as "Distributed Computing and Client-Server Systems."

And don't forget to test your networking mettle against our current Network Design Manual quiz on Cryptography!



1. Remote Procedure Call (RPC), Remote Data Access (RDA), and Queued Message Processing (QMP) are all communication architectures used by:
( ) a. Peer to peer clients
( ) b. NYSE floor traders
(x) c. Clients and Servers
( ) d. An isolated processor
( ) e. All of the above

2. Interface Definition Languages (IDLs) are to a distributed-object environment as:
( ) a. A DLL is to Windows
( ) b. Water is to a duck
(x) c. A stub file is to a DCE application
( ) d. A wrapper is to a sandwich

3. Which of the following is not like the others:
( ) a. Object Frameworks
(x) b. Extensible Markup Language
( ) c. Business Objects
( ) d. Component Software

4. The application, analysis, implementation, and deployment and support stages are a part of:
( ) a. Object-relational databases
(x) b. A General Methodology Pattern
( ) c. A cricket match
( ) d. None of the above

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