Software Architect Questions

A database that contains multiple tables related through common fields.

A common field is a field of data that is shared among all forms in a database. Without them, it would be difficult and/or time-consuming to create other forms.

A web application resides in the server and serves the client’s requests over internet. The client access the web page using browser from his machine. When a client makes a request, it receives the result in the form of HTML which are interpreted and displayed by the browser.

A web application on the server side runs under the management of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). IIS passes the request received from client to the application. The application returns the requested result in the form of HTML to IIS, which in turn, sends the result to the client.

Authorization: The process of granting access privileges to resources or tasks within an

application.

Authentication: The process of validating the identity of a user.

Dalvik serves as a virtual machine, and it is where every Android application runs. Through Dalvik, a device is able to execute multiple virtual machines efficiently through better memory management.

The memory which can be retained even the power is off is called as Permanent memory or Persistent memory. Computer's hard drive is an example of permanent memory and computer's cache or RAM are examples of temporary memory.

The difference between Union and Union all is that Union all will not eliminate duplicate rows, instead it just pulls all rows from all tables fitting your query specifics and combines them into a table. A UNION statement effectively does a SELECT DISTINCT on the results set.

APK stands for Android Application Package.

Android Package (APK) is the package file format used by the Android operating system for distribution and installation of mobile apps and middleware.

The Spring IoC is responsible for creating the objects,managing them (with dependency injection (DI)), wiring them together, configuring them, as also managing their complete lifecycle.