Event Processing 101

Event Processing 101

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The Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) defines the term "event processing" as "computing that performs operations on events, including reading, creating, transforming and deleting events" based on the EPTS definition of the term "event" defined as "anything that happens, or is contemplated as happening." Using these two EPTS definitions, please complete these following 20 questions.

  1. 1

    True or False. Classifying objects is not an event processing application.

  2. 2

    True or False. Complex event processing tasks use a single event processing language.

  3. 3

    True or False. Java is an event processing language.

  4. 4

    True of False. Pushing the keys on your keypad does not involve event processing.

  5. 5

    True or False. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, there was no event.

  6. 6

    True or False. A hand calculator is an event processing device.

  7. 7

    True or False. From an event processing perspective, tracking a single object is the same as classifying different types of objects.

  8. 8

    True or False. The programming language Perl is only used by scientists to process events.

  9. 9

    True or False. The C Progamming Language is not an event processing language.

  10. 10

    True or False. Monitoring the sensors in a nuclear plant is not event processing.

  11. 11

    True or False. Google uses Bayesian methods to classify text for both search, retrieval and spam scoring.

  12. 12

    True or False. Tracking an aircraft is an example of event processing.

  13. 13

    True or False. Event processing is directly related to low latency, high performance stream processing.

  14. 14

    True or False. When rolling your mouse across your mouse pad your computer is processing events?

  15. 15

    True or False. Event processing applications must be strictly deterministic.

  16. 16

    True of False. Detecting your car door open is not an event processing application.

  17. 17

    True or False. Reliable, high performance event processing languages are only sold by a handful of expert software vendors.

  18. 18

    True or False. Event processing is a new domain spanning a handful of business-related disciplines.

  19. 19

    True or False. Event processing is a relatively old technology.

  20. 20

    True or False. Network events are not business events.

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