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DOM & SAX [Design / Implementation/ Information modeling].
 

Authors: Kris. VidhyaSagar and John Wetherbie

 

Difficulty : Easier than real exam.
If there are any issues in this mock test,
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1. Which method does SAX use for processing XML documents?
 
a) Event Based
b) DocumentHandler
c) Document
d) Tree based
 

Wrong

Answer : a

2. Which method does DOM use for processing XML documents?
 
a) Event Based
b) DocumentHandler
c) Document
d) Tree based
 

Wrong

Answer : d

3. Which interfaces are part of the SAX2 API?
 
a) ContentHandler, ErrorHandler, DTDHandler, EntityResolver
b) DocumentHandler, ErrorHandler, DTDHandler, EntityHandler
c) DocumentHandler, Errorhandler, DTDHandler, SchemaHandler
d) DocumentHandler, Errorhandler, DTDHandler, EntityResolver
 

Wrong

Answer : a

4. Which is the best description of the "characters()" method?

 
a) a method of DOM API to insert character data in the XML document
b) a method of the SAX ContentHandler interface to receive notification
 of the presence of character data
c) a method of the DOM interface to replace the entity reference
 with the character data
d) None of these.
 

Wrong

Answer : b

5. An XML document to be processed is very large. The application extracts a small portion of the information from the document. Memory and speed may be constraints. Which method or methods are most appropriate for this situation?
 
a) Use SAX
b) Use DOM
c) Extract the necessary information and process using XSLT.
d) Use a schema-based approach.
 

Wrong

Answers : a

6. When you construct an XML using a DOM enabled Parser, the same parser should be used to process back
the XML document when the process involves legacy applications, otherwise it is not necessary to do so.
 
a) Not really
b) Yes, whenver the process is between legacy conectivity this is better.
c) You can use SAX enabled parser to fill this gap.
d) This statement is not a correct one, because DOM is constructed using IDL.
 

Wrong

Answer : d

7. When Processing Instructions are a part of your parsing process, DOM should be used,
since SAX cannot be used to detect a Processing Instruction in a document.
 
a)true
b)false
 

Wrong

Answer : a

8. Consider a system which is memory & speed constraint. The application is to process XML documents,
sort the contents and mail them to a higher configuration machine for transformation. Which is the best approach?
 
a) Use platform native language to process the docuements
b) Use DOM based approach.
c) Using SAX based approach is the best.
d) DOM and SAX must be used in this context.
 

Wrong

Answer : b

9. When receiving documents from a non-trusted agent, the best way to process the documents is:
 
a) Use SAX
b) Use DOM
c) Both can be used here.
d) Both can be used but validity is an issue here.
 

Wrong

Answer: d

10. In DOM, the Document interface is the only interface that allows you to create other DOM document components.
 
a)true
b)false
 

Wrong

Answer: a

11. XSLT is essentially a tool for translating what kind of documents?
 
a) XML 
b) PDF
c) DOM
d) RTF
 

Wrong

Answers: a

12. Use of SAX based parser is most likely to be used in which of the following scenarios?
 
a) You want to process the document in a sequential order only.
b) The documents is very large.
c) When there is no need to validate XML documents.
d) The parser implements only SAX based approach.
 

Wrong

Answers: a, b

13. DOM can be used to process HTML documents.
 
a)true
b)false
 

Wrong

Answer: a

14. What error types does the SAX2 ErrorHandler interface handle?
 
a) informational, warning, fatal-error
b) warning, error, fatal-error
c) warning, error
d) informational, warning, error, fatal-error
 

Wrong

Answer: b

15. A DOM-based parser should be used for which of the following situations?
 
a) Need to modify the XML document directly
b) Performance and/or memory is an issue
c) Need to have random access to the components of the XML document
d) Only need to process the XML document sequentially
 

Wrong

Answer: a, c

 

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