Technology Questions

strstr() returns part of a given string from the first occurrence of a given substring to the end of the string.
For example:
strstr("user@example.com","@") will return "@example.com".

stristr() is idential to strstr() except that it is case insensitive.

Some of the rules which should be followed while naming a variable in VB are as follows: 

1) Characters should be less than 255.

2) Space between characters should be allowed.

3) A variable should begin with a number.

4) Period may not be permitted.

The Singleton design pattern ensures a class only has one instance, and provides a global point of access to it. The class keeps track of its sole instance and ensures that no other instance can be created. Singleton classes are appropriate for situations where it makes sense for a single object to provide access to a global resource.Several Cocoa framework classes are singletons. They includeNSFileManager, NSWorkspace, NSApplication, and, in UIKit,UIApplication. A process is limited to one instance of these classes. When a client asks the class for an instance, it gets a shared instance, which is lazily created upon the first request.

Cloud data center doesn’t require experts to operate it, but it requires skilled people to see the maintenance, maintain the workloads and to keep the track of the traffic. The labor cost is 6% of the total cost to operate the cloud data center. Power distribution and cooling of the datacenter cost 20% of the total cost. Computing cost is at the end and is the highest as it is where lots of resources and installation has to be done. It costs the maximum left percentage.

A Thread is a block of code that can be executed in parallel with another block of code.

Android is a stack of software for mobile devices which has Operating System, middleware and some key applications. The application executes within its own process and its own instance of Dalvik Virtual Machine. Many Virtual Machines run efficiently by a DVM device. DVM executes Java language’s byte code which later transforms into .dex format files.

Features of Android :

- Components can be reused and replaced by the application framework.
- Optimized DVM for mobile devices
- SQLite enables to store the data in a structured manner.
- Supports GSM telephone and Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G and EDGE technologies
- The development is a combination of a device emulator, debugging tools, memory profiling and plug-in for Eclipse IDE.

One of the main causes of congestion is that traffic is often busy. If hosts could be made to transmit at a uniform rate, congestion would be less common. Another open loop method to help manage congestion is forcing the packet to be transmitted at a more predictable rate. This is called traffic shaping.

•  NO_CACHE – It is used for not caching values.


•  PRE_LOAD_CACHE – Result column preloads and compares the column into the memory, prior to executing the lookup.


•  PRE_LOAD_CACHE is used when the table can exactly fit in the memory space.


•  DEMAND_LOAD_CACHE – Result column loads and compares the column into the memory when a function performs the execution.


•  DEMAND_LOAD_CACHE is suitable while looking up the highly repetitive values with small subset of data.