Question

Scenario 1

Jamal is working to create a communication network between a parts supplier and the myriad businesses it sells to. His challenge is that each company has its own parts numbering system, and he needs to create technology that automatically handles these differences. If he doesn’t, the companies may go elsewhere to order parts.

Scenario 2

Beth has been translating codes between engineers and people at construction sites for years. However, her company is now working to standardize the systems used by both entities by creating a computer network that will more easily allow them to share information. Thankfully, all of this has come up right about the time she was considering retirement.

___(A)____ is an example of web services, a type of technology that allows a company to send information to another company____(B)____.

Answers to A:

1. Scenario 1

2. Scenario 2

Answers to B:

1. After specialized code has been created for each company

2. Without knowledge of each other's computer information systems

3. After all data has been translated into a standardized format

Answer 1

Answer to A : 1. Scenario 1

As web services also do the same by communicating through APIs and translating data as required which is coming in different forms.

Answer to B : 2. Without knowledge of each others's computer information systems

Same happens in the case of API calls. We just know the formats but not the data which will be coming in realtime situation.