Internet of Things Questions and Answers Part-4

1. API enables services portability between ____________
a) Systems
b) Devices
c) Networks
d) Services

Answer: a
Explanation: API enables services portability between sysyems, I.e., service may be allocated to end-systems or servers, with possible relocation and replication throughout its lifecycle.

2. Ubiquitous service provision depends on _________
a) QoS
b) Management
c) Interoperability
d) Routing

Answer: c
Explanation: Ubiquitous service provision depends on interoperability, not only for provisioning of a standard QoS controlled IP bearer, but also for cross domain naming, security, mobility, multicast, including fair compensation for utility provisioning.

3. API architecture not only includes critical elements but also caters for _________
a) System
b) Devices
c) Network
d) Multi homing

Answer: d
Explanation: API architecture not only includes critical elements but also caters for multi homing, mobile networks with dynamic membership, and third party persistent storage based on indirection.

4. All portals are embedded into a single supercomputer, known as _________
a) Network
b) Web
c) Internet
d) System

Answer: b
Explanation: The web is now one, enormous, global computer. Our devices are them phones, tablets, TVS, watches, glasses, etc. These all are all portals into this single computer, known as Web.

5. ________ is uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices.
a) Internet
b) IoT
c) Bigdata
d) Cloud

Answer: b
Explanation: The IoT is the part of the Internet that is made up of “uniquely identified embedded computing devices,” as Wikipedia status. Just like the world Wide Web is a Internet, so does the IoT.

6. Web is a mesh of computers, so too is _________
a) IoT
b) Bigdata
c) Cloud
d) Internet

Answer: a
Explanation: Just like the World Wide Web runs over the Internet, so does the IoT. Similarly to how the Web is a mesh of computers, so too is the IoT.

7. Without _________ computers embedded in house keys are worthless.
a) Data
b) Services
c) Both Data and Services
d) Neither data nor services

Answer: c
Explanation: Without data and services, the little computers embedded in thermostat, house keys, baby monitors, trash cans, fire extinguishers, and store shelve are nearly worthless.

8. ________ Services are the way in which the IoT is connected to data.
a) Cloud
b) Bigdata
c) Internet
d) Network

Answer: a
Explanation: Cloud based services are the way in which the IoT is connected to data. Just like World Wide Web runs over the Internet, so does the IoT.

9. APIs are the skybridge.
a) True
b) False

Answer: a
Explanation: APIs are the skybridge – IoT on one side, useful information and plentiful data crunching capabilities on the other. APIs make IoT useful, turning limited little things into powerful portals of possibilities.

10. IoT solutions are at the heart of IDC’s view of the _________
a) Three
b) Two
c) One
d) Four

Answer: d
Explanation: IoT solutions are at the heart of IDC’s view of the four pillars:
Mobility
Social business
Big data
Cloud
Resulting in the millions of applications available to the billions at the end point.