Technology Questions

An Android Intent is an abstract description of an operation to be performed. It can be used with startActivity to launch an Activity, broadcastIntent to send it to any interested BroadcastReceiver components, and startService(Intent) or bindService(Intent, ServiceConnection, int) to communicate with a background Service.The intent itself, an Intent object, is a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an operation to be performed.
Android provides many ways of storing data of an application. One of this way is called Shared Preferences. Shared Preferences allow you to save and retrieve data in the form of key,value pair.

In order to use shared preferences, you have to call a method getSharedPreferences() that returns a SharedPreference instance pointing to the file that contains the values of preferences.

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.

- localStorage object stores the data without an expiry date while sessionStorage object stores the data only for one session. 

- With localStorage object, data will not be deleted when the browser window is closed while the data is deleted when the browser window closes with sessionStorage objects.

An alert box displays only one button which is the OK button whereas the Confirm box displays two buttons namely OK and cancel.

virtual LAN (VLAN) is any broadcast domain that is partitioned and isolated in a computer network at the data link layer (OSI layer 2). LAN is the abbreviation for local area network and in this context, virtual refers to a physical object recreated and altered by additional logic.

VLANs work by applying tags to network packets and handling these tags in networking systems – creating the appearance and functionality of network traffic that is physically on a single network but acts as if it is split between separate networks. In this way, VLANs can keep network applications separate despite being connected to the same physical network, and without requiring multiple sets of cabling and networking devices to be deployed.

The mapreduce framework contains most of the key architecture principles of cloud computing such as:

- Scale: The framework is able to expand itself in direct proportion to the number of machines available.

- Reliable: The framework is able to compensate for a lost node and restart the task on a different node.

- Affordable: A user can start small and over time can add more hardware.

- Scheduling and executing the batch jobs.

- Configuring, starting and stopping the real-time services

- Adapters configuration and managing them.

- Repository usage, Job Server configuration.

- Access Server configuration.

- Batch job publishing.

- Real-time services publishing through web services.