That is quite disappointing. We often have Whizlabs employees on this forum - I hope one of them sees this and answers some of your concerns.
Rajiv Shr wrote: -- I don't know why they wouldn't provide it as a standalone application. Now I need to connect to the Internet every time I want to use it.
Just guesses here:
I know at one time there were complaints about the Whizlabs standalone application in that it would only run on Microsoft Windows. Having a web interface could easily solve that.
Another issue is one of piracy - because you are using a web based interface, there are numerous ways that they can try to detect piracy and cancel the license if necessary.
Another benefit (potentially a huge benefit) is that they can keep track of what choices users are making in the exam. If 100% of customers all choose the wrong answer to a particular question (and they are monitoring this) then they have the ability to have an alarm raised and have someone check the particular question for inaccuracies / bad wording. (This is effectively what Sun used to do with their Beta exams: have 500 people run through 300 questions, and then discard those that everyone got wrong (it is a little more complex than that, but the basic idea is there)).
Rajiv Shr wrote: One question on HTTP session started with - If your company has a weblogic and a websphere server instance running side by side...
- why would anyone want to do that? Why would any company in their right minds pay for two different application servers for the same application?
This could happen for lots of reasons.
They could have merged or acquired another company that had a reasonable number of applications running on the different application server.
They could primarily use product A, but but buy something that is needed for core business that is only supported on product B.
They could have a license for product A that limits them in some way (e.g. they have a 100 user license for the product). Assuming there is no intermediate license for that product (e.g. you cannot go to a 110 user license), but they need to run an additional application that only needs a 10 user license, they may consider using product B instead.
They may do it simply to avoid vendor lock in (yes, that does happen in the real world).
I worked at one company that had an unlimited use Oracle license. That is - we could install a production Oracle database on any number of computers, with any number of processors, with any number of concurrent users. Despite this we still had a large number of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
