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C10L4Q1: What are the four most important members of the System.Management namespace?

Answer: ManagementQuery, EventQuery, ObjectQuery and ManagementObjectQuery.

C10L4Q2: What does WMI stand for?

Answer: Windows Management Instrumentation.

C10L4Q3: What are the two steps to retrieve information from the WMI?

Answer:

1. Create a ManagementObjectSearcher object and pass the query into the constructor.
2. Obtain a ManagementObjectCollection object by calling the ManagementObjectSearcher's Get method.

C10L4Q4: What needs to be selected from to enumerate the logical drives?

Answer: Win32_LogicalDisk

C10L4Q5: What needs to be selected from to enumerate the network adapters?

Answer: Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration

C10L4Q6: What needs to be selected from to enumerate the Windows Services?

Answer: Win32_Service

C10L4Q7: What class would be used to respond a change in the WMI?

Answer: ManagementEventWatcher

C11L1Q1: What does CAS stand for?

Answer: Code Access Security.

C11L1Q2: What is the relationship between evidence, code groups and permission sets?

Answer: The evidence that an assembly has determines what code group or groups it belongs to. The code group or groups determines what permission set or sets it gets.

C11L1Q3: What are the two types of evidence?

Answer: Host evidence and assembly evidence.

PragC2Q5: What is Meyer's Uniform Access principle?

Answer:

“All services offered by a module should be available through a uniform notation, which does not betray whether they are implemented through storage or through computation.”

or

“Class properties are good.”

PragC2Q6: What are two techniques for avoiding or reducing inadvertent duplication?

Answer: Normalise the data and don't store what can be calculated.

PragC2Q7: What should be done if the DRY principle needs to be violated for performance reasons?

Answer: Ensure the violation is not exposed to the outside world by keeping it contained with in the class.

PragC2Q8: How do you avoid impatient duplication?

Answer: Discipline.

PragC2Q9: What adage relates to impatient duplication?

Answer:

“Short cuts make for long delays.”

PragC2Q10: What is orthogonality?

Answer: Independence or decoupling.

PragC2Q11: What are the two major benefits of orthogonality?

Answer: Increased productivity and reduced risk.

PragC2Q12: How can you get an informal measurement of how orthogonal a team is?

Answer: Determine how many people need to be involved in discussing each change that is requested. The less people, the more orthogonal and better off the team is.

PragC2Q13: How can low orthogonality affect a team?

Answer: Confusion over responsibilities leading to bickering.

LifeQ3: What is the effect / affect usage mnemonic?

Answer: VANE - Verb Affect Noun Effect

Art1P4Q3: What is the Open Closed Principle and who came up with it?

Answer:

“A module should be open for extension, but closed for modification.” - Bertrand Meyer

Art1P5Q1: What is the key to the OCP?

Answer: Abstraction.

Art1P8Q1: What is the Liskov Substitution Principle and who came up with it?

Answer:

“Subclasses should be substitutable for their base classes.” - Barbara Liskov

Art1P8Q2: What is the canonical example of the subtleties of the LSP?

Answer: The Circle / Ellipse dilemma.

Art1P12Q1: Violations of the LSP are also what?

Answer: Violations of the OCP.

Art1P12Q2: What is the Dependency Inversion Principle?

Answer:

“Depend on abstractions. Do not depend on concretions.”