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Study Questions - Audio Creation
CDEx Settings
Bitrate = 80 kbps
Mono
Quality = Very high (q = 0)
Questions To Be Recorded
C7XQ1: What is the difference between the way the CLR deals with unhandled exceptions in the .NET Framwork 1.1 verses 2.0?
Answer: In 1.0, a backstop is provided for unhandled exceptions that occur on the following types of thread:
- A thread from the thread pool.
- A thread created with the Thread.Start method.
- A finaliser thread.
In 2.0, these exceptions are left to proceed naturally.
C7XQ2: The .NET Framework 2.0 provides a backstop for what three types of unhandled exceptions?
Answer:
- A ThreadAbortException thrown because of an Abort call.
- An AppDomainUnloadException thrown because the application domain is being unloaded.
- An internal exception thrown by the CLR or host process.
ITQ5: What is Conway's Law?
Answer: “Organisations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organisations.” - Melvin Conway, 1968.
PragC2Q16: What is code that glows in the dark?
Answer: Tracer code.
PragC2Q17: What are the four aspects of code that tracer code should share with production code and what is the one aspect that it does not?
Answer:
Shared: error checking, structuring, documentation and self-checking.
Not shared: Full functionality.
PragC2Q18: What are the five advantages of tracer code?
Answer:
- Users get to see something early.
- Develops a build structure to work in.
- Creates an integration platform.
- Creates something to demonstrate.
- Creates a better feel for progress.
PragC2Q19: What is the difference between tracer code and prototyping?
Answer: Prototyping generates disposable code. Tracer code is lean but complete and forms part of the skeleton of the final system.