Data Integration Quiz - Results

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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.