CSE445/598

Distributed Software Development

Midterm Review

About the Mid-Term Exam

The mid-term exam will be given in the class
meeting room. For the date of the exam, please
check the course calendar.
The exam will be an open book, open notes, and
open computer exam.
You need to bring in a computer to write the
multiple choice part exam in the blackboard.
Crib sheets: Write down the important concepts and
principles in a few sheets of paper. Creating the
sheets is a good learning aid and so take time to
choose the material and prepare for the exam.
The exam will cover chapters 1, 2, and 3. There are
50 points available. The exam has two parts of
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questions.

Type of Questions
Part I: Multiple choice and multiple answer questions:
There are 30 (15+15) multiple choice / multiple
answer questions.
Choose one answer in multiple choice;
Choose all correct answers in multiple answer
questions, which will be specified by Select all that
apply.
The types of questions are similar to lecture
exercises and quizzes.
Part II: Write-in questions
There are 20 points of write-in questions. You can be
asked to
explain concepts,
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read a program and explain what the program does,

Sample Questions
1. What are the roles of the three parties in service-oriented software
development?
2. Compare and contrast OOC and SOC paradigms.
3. What are critical operations? What mechanisms can be used to
protect critical operations?
4. In what circumstances should an indivisible instruction be used, and
in what circumstances should the object lock be used?
5. What is the role of a service broker? What information must be
provided in order to publish a service in UDDI?
6. Given a piece of code (e.g., a piece of code similar to those in text
and in the slides):
6.1 Explain what variable is used by the producer and by the consumer
to communicate.
6.2 Do the given methods/statements need to be synchronized in the
context of the program?
6.3 If they need to be synchronized, add code to synchronize them.
7. Discuss the implications of using proxy, instead of using code
integration.
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8. What methods can be used to store states in web services?

For Write-In Questions Focus

It will focus on the programming examples
given in the lectures
The homework that you did.
Service development in three party model:
Service Provider
Service Broker
Application Builder

Multithreading with
Shared Buffer for communication
Monitors / Locks
Semaphore
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