Java SCEA Practice Exam

Question 1
Happy Joe Banking Corporation is building a Banking application to provide online access to their account
holders. They have chosen 2 SUN 450s for their web server cluster and 1 SUN E10000 for their application
server. The business requirements indicate that to become a customer, a person must have at least a primary
checking account with the bank. Further since the customer will be using the Internet to view confidential
information, security is considered paramount. What do you understand about the requirements of the
system?

a) The need for Security is a classic example of a functional service level requirement and the checking
account rule, an example of non-functional QoS requirement. b) The discussion about Security and the
mandatory checking account both illustrate functional service level requirements.
c) Neither Security nor the mandatory Checking Account is examples of any kind of requirements,
theoretically speaking. d) Security is an Architectural non-functional requirement and the Mandatory
Checking Account a functional design requirement.
e) They are both examples of Business Use Cases.

Question 2
Which of the following are not true about N-Tier Systems?
1. N-Tier systems are distributed over many systems and hence always present
a maintenance problem.
2. N-Tier systems are generally component based and are therefore quite easy
to maintain.
3. Since N-Tier systems do not use database stored procedures or triggers for
business logic processing, they are generally very slow.
4. Since N-Tier systems are container based, many N-Tier systems can be easily
scaled (both vertically and horizontally).
5. N-Tier systems suffer only from one drawback over client/server systems - N-
Tier systems do not take advantage of resource sharing techniques like
connection pooling.
6. N-Tier systems can use various techniques for Identification, Authentication
and Authorization and are therefore considered quite secure.
a) 1 & 2 b) 2,5, & 6
c) 1, 2, & 5 d) 3 & 6
e) 1, 3, & 5 f) 1 & 5

Question 3
Nopester Inc., a CD manufacturer uses Metallic Corporation for making jewel cases. When the inventory of
jewel cases falls under the reorder level, Nopester communicates with Metallic via faxes. Nopester now
wants to build a solution for its supply chain management. Metallic uses a legacy system that supports
CORBA interfaces for other companies to interface to them with. Metallic's servers are protected by
firewalls and will only let HTTP or HTTPS requests through. What is Nopester's best option here?

a) Since Metallic will not let CORBA requests through, Nopester should continue sending faxes. b)
Nopester should take its business away to Metallic's competitors.
c) Nopester should use the popular SOAP protocol since SOAP requests communicate over HTTP. d)
Nopester should use a concept called HTTP tunneling to communicate with Metallic.

Question 4
When remote calls are made on the container provided implementations of the EJBHome and EJBObject,
various transactional and security checks are applied before the call is actually passed on to the bean
instance. The Container provided implementations of EJBHome and EJBObject are performing what
Design Pattern's task?

a) Command b) Adapter
c) Bridge d) Decorator
e) Facade

Question 5
Compact Computers is a small computer assembly company. Their online application
allows customers to pick and choose accessories to build their own PCs.
The accessories are:
i.Processor -800Mhz, 1Ghz, 1.2Ghz
ii. HDD - 40 GB, 60 GB, 80 GB
iii. Memory -128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB
If a computer can have exactly 1 processor, 1 HDD and 1
memory stick, what pattern would be best used here?
a) Factory Method b) Builder
c) Prototype d) Abstract Factory
e) Singleton

Question 6
Ibid is an e-auction house that auctions refurbished products. Each product has a minimum bid price. B
can query the system for a list of products and then select a product to bid on. They can then place a h
bid on the selected product. Transactional Integrity is very important as dirty reads, non-repeatable rea
phantom reads can lead to data inconsistency. What technology combination might be most suitable for
addressing Ibid's needs?
a) Applets for presentation
b) HTML and JSP for presentation, and Servlets for
and JTA/JTS for transactional
data retrieval and transaction management.
integrity.
c) Servlets and JSP for
presentation, a stateful
d) Servlets and JSP for presentation, a stateless
session bean with DAO for list
session bean with DAO for list retrieval and CMT
retrieval and a stateless
Entity bean for Transaction management.
session bean for transaction
management.
e) Servlets and JSP for
presentation, and a Java class
to encapsulate database
access and transaction
management.

Question 7
Toysrfuss, a national toy store is creating a new e-front for Order processing.
Customers have to create an account to transact with them, although an account
is not required for browsing the catalog. Customers can browse items and add
them to a shopping cart. They can then proceed to checkout. At this time, they
can update quantities and submit the order. What technologies may be best
suited for this application?
a. JSP for presentation and Servlets as controllers.
b. Servlets for presentation and JSP as controller.
c. Stateless Session Bean for Shopping cart.
d. Stateless session bean for catalog retrieval.
e. Stateful Session bean for shopping cart.
f. Stateful session bean for Order update.
g. Entity bean for Catalog retrieval.
h. Entity bean for Order update.
a) D, E, & G b) A, B, E & H
c) A, D, E & H d) B, E, F & G

Question 8
Which of the following statements about 'Not Supported' and 'Never' transactional
attributes are true?

a. 'Not Supported' suspends any transaction until the method is completed

whereas 'Never' throws a RemoteException when called with a transaction.
b. 'Never' suspends any transaction until the method is completed whereas 'Not
Supported' throws a RemoteException.
c. If the method is called without any transactional scope, both attributes will
work identically.
d. If the method is called with a transactional scope, both attributes will work
identically.
a) A Only b) A & C
c) C Only d) None of the Above

Question 9
The findByXXX() method in the Home Interface of an entity bean returns ____.
a. An Instance of java.lang.Object
b. An instance of the Remote Reference to the bean
c. An instance of java.util.Enumeration
d. An instance of the Bean class
a) A b) B & C
c) B d) C & D

Question 10
EJB1.1 has support for undefined Primary Keys. This means that the Primary Key can be undefined until
deployment time. When we use defined Primary Keys, the Bean class and the Interfaces use the BeanPK
type to identify the key. What do the Bean class and the Interfaces refer to in the case of undefined Primary
Keys?

a) Though the Primary Key itself can be undefined, its name must be predetermined. The Bean class and
the Interfaces use this name. b) An instance of java.util.Enumeration.
c) An instance of java.lang.Class. d) An instance of java.lang.Object.

Question 11
What are the benefits of Bean pooling?
a. Bean instances are created during startup, thus avoiding the expense of creation,
each time a client requests it.
b. Bean pooling allows load distribution over several machines.
c. Bean pooling is the container's way of balancing load - moving future requests
from client to a different machine, if load increases are encountered.
d. Allows a container to use beans as flyweights.
a) A & D b) A & B
c) C & D d) B & D

Question 12
Status Quo is an emerging B2C company that has a portal through which customers
can purchase clay jewelry. Since the order process involves a shopping cart, session
management and secure access are required. How would you manage this?
a. Use HTTP since it is a stateful protocol.
b. Use HTTPS since it is a stateful protocol.
c. Use SOAP for state and security management.
d. Use CGI with cookies for state management.
a) A & D b) B & C
c) D d) B

Question 13
Chocolat, an exotic chocolate maker in France is planning to provide an e-front for
chocolate sales. FedEx would ship the packages to various national and international
locations. In order to customize the customer's interaction with the system and to
make his / her overall shopping experience more pleasant, Chocolat has decided to
support Internationalization. What are some of the common things they would need
to consider?
a. Language for messages
b. Formats (numeric, date and so on)
c. DMZ requirements
d. Taxes and legal rules
e. RSA f. MD5
a) A, B & D b) B & C
c) A, B & E d) B, D & E

Question 14
Fire Hall is building a corporate Intranet and wants its employees to access payroll information via the
Internet. They are implementing the solution via applets for richer GUI capabilities. The view 401K applet
requires a Java 1.4 Plug in as well as read permission to read cached data from a temporary directory on the
host where it's being executed. Is the applet technology viable for this application?

a) The applet technology is not viable because the sandbox model prevents them from reading or writing to
the host where they are executed. b) The applet technology is a viable solution because the security policy
of the Java 2 Platform is totally flexible.

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Question 15
In the Publish subscribe messaging architecture, publishers send messages to:

a) A specified node, which is then re-distributed to all subscribers. b) Directly to all subscribers in the
Topic subscription list.
c) A designated queue. d) A component transaction monitor such as an EJB Server for further processing by
a message driven bean.

Question 16
You have just started a new job working for a top finance
company and you have been asked to provide a user-
friendly interface to an existing mainframe application. You
don't have any access to the mainframes source code.
What is the best technique for this?
b) Use a screen
a) It can't be done.
scraper.
c) Re-write the main frame using
d) Write a Java front
Java and high-end Unix servers.
end then use CORBA
Although it may takesome time to
to communicate with
do this in the long run this will
the mainframe.
benefit the company.
e) Use the Java Native Interface
(JNI) to communicate with the f) Use object mapping.
mainframe.
g) Use JMS.

Question 17
Your 3-tier application has been running smoothly in a production environment for over 3 months. Due to a
recent television campaign, you have started to experience three times the volume of normal traffic. Your
architect has suggested that a round robin load distribution mechanism be employed to cope with the issue.
How is DNS round robin going to be helpful in this situation?

a) Splitting requests evenly amongst all back end servers. b) The proxy sits behind the backend servers
monitoring the performance of each one. When it notices one is being used too much it will automatically
forward requests to a different server.
c) Time each server has available. d) A technique used to target certain requests to certain backend servers,
e.g. All Servlet requests from one server and all static HTML from another.

Question 18
A Fortune 500 company wishes to add new functionality to their existing sales
system and has contracted you as the lead architect for the project. The legacy
system has been written in C++. They wish to keep this system running and may
switch over to a full Java solution later, depending on the performance of the new
functionality. So how will connect to this legacy system?
b) Rewrite the C++ code in Java.
a) Wrap the application This shouldn't be too hard
using JNI and make it because it's converting from one
accessible using RMI. object-orientated language to
another.
c) Use a screen scraper. d) Use CORBA to talk to the C
 program then get the CORBA to
talk to the RMI server.

Question 19
You are working for a company with a worldwide presence; its offices are spread
across many countries and over many computer networks. The company has set
up Virtual private networks to increase security. What are Virtual Private Networks
(VPNs) and where are they created?
a) A network created
between two other networks
b) The area between two
(these are not located in the
firewalls. You let traffic from
same place, geographically).
the Internet into this area
Encryption and
(through the first firewall)
Authentication are used in
but not through the second
the VPN. Normally the VPN is
firewall (to your secure
a network on top of an
network).
untrusted network (like the
Internet).
d) A network created between
two other networks (these
are not located in the same
place, geographically.)
c) The secure (inner) network Encryption and
as described in choice B. Authentication are NOT used
in the VPN. Normally the VPN
is a network on top of a
trusted network (like the
Internet).

Question 20
You are the lead architect for a project that requires interfacing with existing
CORBA systems. You are planning to use Java IDL to integrate with these other
systems. Which of the following statements about Java IDL are true?
a. Allows Java to use CORBA.
b. Should be used when most of your new Java applications will be entirely Java
based.
c. Should be used if you have already been using CORBA for a while and wish to
carry on with some CORBA systems.
d. Java IDL has nothing to do with CORBA. To communicate with CORBA you will
need to use JNI (Java native interface) and J2C (Java 2 CORBA).
e. Same as D except you won't need to use JNI.
f. Should be used when servicing messaging requests from CORBA clients.
a) A & E b) B, C, & E
c) A, E & F d) A & C

Question 21
In a Catalog Enterprise Bean, used in an online sports shopping site, you have code that will be
executed when ejbPassivate() and ejbActivate() methods are called. Since the code performs basic
house keeping tasks, you need to know when these methods would get executed. Which of the
following statements are therefore true?
a. ejbPassivate() is called prior to passivation.
b. ejbPassivate() is called immediately after passivation.
c. ejbActivate() is called prior to activation.
d. ejbActivate() is called immediately after activation.
a) A & B b) B & C
c) A & D d) C & D

Question 22
You are creating a web application for an online product ordering system. You have decided to use
connection pooling to reduce load on the databases. Since you have many databases, you want to
create one pool instance of the ConnectionPool class for each database. Depending on what is
requested, you may have to connect to a variable number of databases. What pattern should you
use?

a) Abstract factory b) Factory Method

c) Builder d) Prototype
e) Singleton

Question 23
When should you use Java IDL and when should you use RMI-IIOP?
a. You should use Java IDL when using Enterprise Java Beans.
b. You should use RMI-IIOP when using Enterprise Java Beans.
c. You HAVE to use RMI-IIOP when using Enterprise Java Beans.
d. Java IDL can be used even if the remote interfaces were originally defined as
RMI interfaces.
e. RMI-IIOP can be used with CORBA only if the remote interfaces were originally
defined as RMI interfaces.
f. RMI-IIOP can be used with CORBA even if not all of the remote interfaces were
originally defined as RMI interfaces.
g. It comes down to programmer preference as both can be used in all
situations.

a) B, E & G b) A, F & G
c) B & F d) B & E
e) D, E & F

Question 24
You've designed an application that allows customers to buy chapters of e-books.
Due to the enormous success of the project, there are plans to launch this
application worldwide. In the process of converting the application to be suitable
for worldwide use which of the following would you find yourself using
frequently?
a. Defines create (), find (), remove (Object) methods.
b. Defines signatures of EJB's business methods.
c. Defines the persistence of the bean, e.g. how to persist etc.
d. Defines all methods that the client can call on the EJB.
e. You don't need a Remote interface for an EJB. An EJB consists of a Home
interface and an EJBObject interface.

a) B, D b) A & C
c) B & E d) B & D
e) A, C & E
Question 25
You've designed an application that allows customers to buy chapters of e-books.
Due to the success of the project this will be launched as a worldwide
application. In the process of converting this application to be suitable for
worldwide use which of the following will you use?

a) Java already runs with 16 bit

characters as standard. So you
don't need to use any particular b) java.text package
classes to change text. All
primitives can be used.
c) java.lang.Integer Class d) java.lang.Number Class
e) java.international package f) java.Unicode package

Question 26
You have a distributed system that is not made up entirely of Java objects (some of
them are CORBA.) What J2EE technology should you use in this situation?

a) RMI-JRMP b) CORBA
c) Rewrite the objects so the
d) RMI-IIOP
system in entirely Java based

Question 27
As part of a new application you are building, you need to connect to a database. Note
that this database is used to store third party product details and it does not belong to
your company. You do not have any access to the server where the database is
installed and only have read permissions for the database. Further, you cannot change
the ODBC driver that is currently installed. How do you connect to this database?

a) CORBA b) JMS-JNI
c) JDBC-ODBC d) Bridge
e) JDBC

Question 28
You have had enough of all the UML tools in the market, as they are all very
cumbersome to use. Hence you have decided to design your own UML tool. However,
during design, you realize that certain parts will be really complicated. For example,
you have a Diagram object that is made up of lots of other objects. This diagram object
can be used for creating a variety of other diagrams including class and sequence
diagrams. When you create it you only want to specify its type and content. What
design pattern should you use here?
In the Tips section, the tiers under N-Tier architecture need to be indented. Currently
they are at the same indentation as the parent.

a) Publish/Subscribe b) Point-to-Point
c) Topic Messaging d) Instant Messaging
e) You wouldn't use
messaging

Question 29
You have had enough with all the UML tools on the market as none do exactly what you want
them to. So you've decided to design your own. However when designing it you realize that
certain parts will be really complicated for example you have a Diagram object that is made
up of lots of other objects. This diagram object can be used for a variety of different
diagrams including class and sequence diagrams. When you create it you only want to
specify its type and content. What pattern should you use?

a) Abstract Factory b) Factory Method

c) Builder d) Decorator