Comp150CPA: Clouds and Power-Aware Computing
Quiz 2 -- April 27, 2011 -- Closed book
name: ____________________________ login: ______________
- (20 points)
Explain why an arbitrarily chosen key/value distributed hash
table is not automatically suitable for running Map/Reduce algorithms.
- (20 points) Draw a BPMN diagram for the following situation:
a customer buys a scooter from scooters.com, which asks
a credit-card company to verify credit-card information,
after which it either voids the sale (if the credit card
is not good) or ships the scooter (if the sale is authorized).
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(20 points) Employees at a company work 35 hour weeks for a total cost
to the company of $100,000 a year each. Company sales average $1000/hour
on average during a regular work day. Based upon this, what is the cost
of an hour of downtime during working hours?
- (40 points) Please fill in the blanks:
- Part of BPMN can be converted to BPEL by ________1________
the nature of communications between processes. Unlike BPEL, however,
BPMN also documents the behavior of ________2________
elements of the business, which cannot be documented in like manner.
- The reason that BPEL (and BPMN) are written in XML is not because
that is a human-friendly language, but rather, because XML has
pre-existing mechanisms for defining the ________3________
of XML fragments (using XSchemas) and for ________4________
XML documents for desired keywords (using XPATH).
- A
complexType
in an Xschema describes an XML
element that contains ________5________. An
Xschema restriction facet makes a text type match
________6________ than its base string type.
- The reason that Xschemas are used in implementing SOAP services
is to ________7________ against invalid data being
used as a SOAP query. This means that the code that implements
the service will ________8________ only if input matches.