• What is XML and a DTD and how is it used in application development and integration?
• What is voiceXML?
• . Be able to define the essential parts of a web service and draw a simple diagram illustrating how a web service operates. The parts include: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Service Consumer (client) and Service Consumer (server).
• . Explain the following terms and be able to diagram a scenario using these terms: firewall, DMZ, hardened operating system, SSL, intrusion detection, redirector, LDAP, digital certificate. Be able to use these in a systems integration problem described above.
• . Describe the difference between traditional computing and cloud computing in terms of acquisition, business, access, and technical models.
• . Cloud computing is still evolving. Explain the similarities and differences between the offerings provided by these three big players we talked about in class: Salesforce/Force, Amazon and Googles App Engine for Python and Java.