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Learning Programming Using Visual Basic.Net
Bill Burrows, University of Washington
Joe Lanford, University of Rochester

Accessing Data: Using XML

Multiple Choice Quiz



1

A(n) ___ ______ gives developers a method to ensure that XML documents are written in a format that a specific application can understand.
A)XML rule
B)XML schema
C)XML format
D)XML definition
2

XML is gained a lot of popularity because it is __________, meaning that a developer can redefine the contents of a document coded in XML, provided that he or she follows some simple rules and properly defines an XML schema for their document.
A)extensible
B)modifyable
C)reconfigurable
D)free-form
3

XML document data is represented internally as a _____ structure, having one central category of data, with multiple descendant categories branching off from it.
A)loop
B)square
C)star
D)tree
4

If an XML doesn't contain any syntax violations, it is said to be ____ ______.
A)syntactically clean
B)well formed
C)well coded
D)strongly typed
5

What is the following piece of XML code referred to as?
A)Document Prolog
B)Type Definition
C)Document Declaration
D)Processing Directive
6

A facet allows an XML document developer to specify:
A)Multiple faces of a single element tab
B)Limits and boundaries on data values of a certain type
C)The reflectivity of their XML code
D)How their code will translate between XML parsers
7

Data-Relation objects are used in an XML document to define:
A)how tags relate to each other strictly in the XML document
B)how one XML schema relates to another schema
C)the relationship between data in a database
D)the conversion from one type to another
8

One benefit of the syntax of XML is that a document coded in this language is said to be _________________ due to the fact that tag names can be descriptive and are, in a sense, like meta statements.
A)self-referential
B)self-documenting
C)object-oriented
D)data-centric
9

An XML document that is well formed and also conforms to the XML schema definition that it is associated with is called _____.
A)valid
B)readable
C)syntactically-correct
D)perfect
10

The notion of a(n) _________ was developed so that two identical XML tags with different meanings do not cause collisions or interpretation problems.
A)descriptor
B)key
C)schema
D)namespace




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