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Basic Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) MCQ

1. A company has implemented a number of business processes using SOA services. How do they determine if their new processes are helping the organization to achieve its business objectives?

They establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) to monitor and report on the SOA services performanc

They contact a third party to analyze and evaluate the new processes against the business objectives.

They set and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track performance against the business objectives.

They model the new processes in a business model simulator to identify bottlenecks and potential performance issues.

Answer

Correct Answer: They set and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track performance against the business objectives.

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2. Which requirement is fulfilled by dynamic management of services during the execution in SOA?

Meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Gold customers

Assigning premiere customers to the Gold customer status

Identifying an incoming request as coming from a Gold customer

Changing a business process to provide enhanced capabilities for Gold customers

Answer

Correct Answer: Meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Gold customers

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3. What provides the most value in helping developers find existing SOA services and driving reuse?

Service monitoring

An asset repository

The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Access services to legacy systems

Answer

Correct Answer: An asset repository

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4. Which business driver would cause a company in the healthcare industry to consider SOA?

Government regulations for communication and interoperability between companies continue to change

The cost of healthcare is increasing extremely fast and SOA will bring the costs back under control.

Since doctors and other medical practitioners do not understand IT, SOA can shield these roles from the underlying technology implementation.

Medical providers at smaller companies that use .Net can communicate to larger parent companies that use Java through Web services interoperability.

Answer

Correct Answer: Government regulations for communication and interoperability between companies continue to change

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5. What is an SOA repository?

Storage of service metadata

Storage for versions of service components

The medium for messaging in a standardized way

The means by which services are loosely coupled

A source of information about invoking a service

Answer

Correct Answer: Storage of service metadata

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6. Which situation is most appropriate for an SOA implementation?

Customer's IT strategy is to use desktop applications.

The organization relies on a homogeneous environment.

Pilot and prototype development is a focus of the IT organization.

Parts of an application need to be developed, maintained and updated independently.

Answer

Correct Answer: Parts of an application need to be developed, maintained and updated independently.

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7. Which need drives a project to use an SOA approach?

Business flexibility

Resource virtualization

Application integration

Improved systems management

Answer

Correct Answer: Business flexibility

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8. A dealer in rare and antique books is interested in streamlining their business process. Bottlenecks occur when dealing with inventory and shipping functions in the process. How can the dealer optimize this process?

Create a new application to deal with the bottlenecks.

Replace legacy systems with more advanced technology.

Automate the manual steps so that the process is easier to monitor.

Provide multiple paths through the process for some of the functions.

Answer

Correct Answer: Provide multiple paths through the process for some of the functions.

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9. At which two points in SOA communication are registries used?

During discovery

During publication

During message transport

During message validation

During message transformation

Answer

Correct Answer: During publication

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10. Which initiative helps achieve business agility in SOA?

Pairing up the appropriate service consumers and providers.

Buying prefabricated objects to quickly implement business functions.

Choreographing a business process to efficiently implement the desired business functions.

Designing and developing a new business process model rather than adapting an existing one.

Answer

Correct Answer: Choreographing a business process to efficiently implement the desired business functions.

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11. What is made more difficult by moving to SOA?

Outsourcing of business functions

Ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) objectives are met.

Changing business processes to meet government regulations.

Providing a role-based portal for employees, partners and customers.

Answer

Correct Answer: Ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) objectives are met.

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12. What is a role of Web services in building an SOA?

To provide interoperability using XML-based messages

To provide an interface for human interaction using task lists

To provide loose coupling via remote method invocations using JAX-RPC

To implement the service functionality through interfaces defined in the applications' BPEL

Answer

Correct Answer: To provide interoperability using XML-based messages

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13. Which is a driving business need for SOA?

Automate and optimize processes

Security, governance and infrastructure

Governance, infrastructure and connectivity

Interoperability, standards and application integration

High availability of hardware, operational systems and services

Answer

Correct Answer: Automate and optimize processes

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14. Which three characteristics of SOA can make a business more agile?

Defining rules for business

Enforcing governance processes

Creating components that can be shared

Building applications from reusable components

Changing the implementation without affecting the consumers

Answer

Correct Answer: Creating components that can be shared
Building applications from reusable components
Changing the implementation without affecting the consumers

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15. Which people, organizational or technology factors would positively impact the readiness for SOA and its success?

Excess hardware capacity

Short-term revenue expectations

Business unit executives avoid disruptive innovations

Business partners that have the necessary skills and capabilities

Answer

Correct Answer: Business partners that have the necessary skills and capabilities

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16. Which statement is true about a business process in the context of Business Process Management (BPM)?

It should be monitore

It only deals with automated tasks.

It interacts with a single application.

It has one primary Key Performance Indicator (KPI).

Answer

Correct Answer: It should be monitore

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17. Failure to adopt SOA will result in which outcome?

Automation of document processing will be difficult.

Extremely high volume, synchronous, real-time transactions will occur.

Integration costs continue to grow without being offset by new business opportunities.

IT budget will increase to cover the cost of additional governance and development activities.

Answer

Correct Answer: Integration costs continue to grow without being offset by new business opportunities.

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18. In a growth industry, what is the most effective technique to secure executive sponsorship from a line of business for a company's adoption of SOA?

Present the IT savings that can be achieved via an SOA-based reuse strategy.

Emphasize the significant market acceptance of SOA as the new standard architectural style.

Focus on the rate of change in the industry and the need for business agility to take advantage of these marketplace changes.

Send the executive the recent article describing a competitor's SOA success that has just been published in the latest issue of an industry trade magazine.

Answer

Correct Answer: Focus on the rate of change in the industry and the need for business agility to take advantage of these marketplace changes.

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19. Which might cause a challenge to prioritizing, defining and funding services in SOA?

Services that support multiple projects and/or lines of business

Services that need to consider non-disruptive roll-out of changes

Services that are based on standards to allow for interoperability

Service requesters that are independent of the service implementation

Answer

Correct Answer: Services that support multiple projects and/or lines of business

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20. Which statement is true about a business process in the context of SOA?

It rarely includes any manual steps.

It can span people, systems and information.

It takes a relatively short amount of time to complete.

All services are linked to the process through an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Answer

Correct Answer: It can span people, systems and information.

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21. When is the location of the service provider first determined in the SOA lifecycle?

Model business process and design according to requirements

Construct and assemble service components

Configure and deploy from test through production

Manage to business and IT goals

Answer

Correct Answer: Configure and deploy from test through production

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22. Which two roles do Web services play in an SOA?

They provide mediation for service requests.

They provide the framework for information as a service.

They support interoperability between disparate technologies.

They provide an open standard means for describing service interfaces.

They provide the messaging infrastructure for the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Answer

Correct Answer: They support interoperability between disparate technologies.
They provide an open standard means for describing service interfaces.

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23. Which role does XML play in an SOA design?

XML is used to implement the UML design.

XML schema drives the messaging payloads.

XML is used for Web services which are required in SO

XML is used to describe interfaces and message bindings.

Answer

Correct Answer: XML is used to describe interfaces and message bindings.

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24. What most accurately describes a business process?

The steps required to complete a unit of work in the optimal way

An artifact used to capture the knowledge representing business requirements

A flow of tasks that must be completed by systems or people in a certain order

BPEL code that runs within a business process engine orchestrating the work of people and systems

Answer

Correct Answer: A flow of tasks that must be completed by systems or people in a certain order

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25. Which role does WS-Security play in an SOA?

It provides security interchange for RESTful Web services.

It enforces authentication and authorization within an SO

It provides an end-to-end security context among Web services.

It provides a security implementation for Enterprise Service Buses (ESB).

Answer

Correct Answer: It provides an end-to-end security context among Web services.

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26. Which standard describes the interface for Web services?

WS-I

BPEL

SOAP

WSDL

Answer

Correct Answer: WSDL

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27. In which situation would a manufacturing plant most likely choose to use an SOA approach for their Customer Order Analysis and Tracking System?

The company wanted development and operations to be as simple as possible.

The company wanted to break down department silos and encourage everyone to use the same set of tools.

Most of the company's processes were manual or document-centric with little opportunity for automation.

The legacy system had grown in such a way that it was not easy to update and could not handle the emerging business demands.

Answer

Correct Answer: The legacy system had grown in such a way that it was not easy to update and could not handle the emerging business demands.

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28. Which people, organizational or technology factors negatively impact the adoption of SOA?

Putting funding mechanisms in place to encourage reuse

Agreeing on policies for service reuse across lines of business

Planning to perform a complete overhaul of all business processes

Defining additional capabilities required, such as upgrades to the IT infrastructure

Answer

Correct Answer: Planning to perform a complete overhaul of all business processes

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29. In preparing to go to SOA, which governance aspect should be implemented from the beginning?

Create the SOA architecture documentation.

Manage and secure services, applications and resources.

Provide a framework for measuring the effectiveness of SO

Establish the common metadata model to ensure interoperability.

Answer

Correct Answer: Provide a framework for measuring the effectiveness of SO

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30. Which artifact is the most helpful to an organization's SOA transformation and implementation roadmap?

A reference architecture

A service interface description

A Web services standards glossary

A proposed service registry document

Answer

Correct Answer: A reference architecture

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31. Access services represent which vital function in the IBM SOA Reference Architecture?

Distributed role-based access control mechanisms

Connectivity with existing and legacy functionality

Additional security at gateway points between domains

Services exposed across different business units or organizations

Answer

Correct Answer: Connectivity with existing and legacy functionality

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32. What is contained in an SOA repository as opposed to a registry?

Service policy information

Versions of software components

Uncommitted transactions to enable compensation handling

Service endpoint information to facilitate dynamic binding at runtime

Answer

Correct Answer: Service policy information

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33. Which cross-cutting concerns are present at all areas within a logical SOA?

Integration, security, management, monitoring and governance

Logging, auditing, business processes, information architecture, identity provision and governance

Encapsulation, separation of concerns, high cohesion, loose-coupling, Ans: granularity and abstraction

Business flexibility, business agility, cost effectiveness, goal related, traceable requirements and continuous incremental improvement

Answer

Correct Answer: Integration, security, management, monitoring and governance

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34. In the IBM SOA Reference Architecture, the service registry should be logically located with which other component?

Access Services

Process Services

Infrastructure Services

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Answer

Correct Answer: Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

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35. When starting to adopt SOA, which action should be taken early to help drive acceptance and success?

Establish the SOA strategy and project roadmap.

Identify the first services required and ensure they are designed well, considering security and scalability.

Roll the SOA project in as the next phase of a project under development to prove the value to the business.

Prepare the infrastructure for SOA by establishing a development environment, testing environment and the control process to promote services.

Answer

Correct Answer: Establish the SOA strategy and project roadmap.

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36. When releasing a new service version, which changes to the WSDL document are backward compatible?

Adding an operation

Removing an operation

Renaming an operation

Changing the parameters of an operation

Answer

Correct Answer: Adding an operation

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37. What describes the role of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?

An adapter that exposes back end functionality of legacy systems

A routing and mediation component that loosely couples service interfaces

A routing and mediation component that loosely couples service implementations

A component where transformation and aggregation are used to implement service interfaces

Answer

Correct Answer: A routing and mediation component that loosely couples service implementations

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38. Which statement describes a business process in the context of SOA?

It is a business policy or decision procedure

Items are accumulated and then processed together.

It is a series of tasks connected together like building blocks.

It enables interactions between message consumers and providers.

Answer

Correct Answer: It is a series of tasks connected together like building blocks.

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39. What is a typical requirement in an SOA environment for determining business success?

Adherence to six-sigma business guidelines

A dashboard for reporting metrics to business analysts

The ability to pilot the solution in a production environment to business stakeholders

The capability to monitor and measure performance against business process goals

Answer

Correct Answer: The capability to monitor and measure performance against business process goals

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40. In applying SOA, which principle can reduce overall cost?

Reuse services across lines of business.

Build services for only the most important business functions.

Build general services that can perform a variety of business tasks.

Reimplement all services on a consistent hardware and software platform.

Answer

Correct Answer: Reuse services across lines of business.

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41. What describes the purpose of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in an SOA?

It provides separation of concerns so that each service can be managed separately.

It provides a design that allows components to be changed with less impact to the consumer.

It allows a service consumer to make a service request without knowing the details of the operation.

It implements service functionality by integrating existing back end service functionality using routing and transformation logo

Answer

Correct Answer: It provides a design that allows components to be changed with less impact to the consumer.

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42. In which phase of the SOA lifecycle are service descriptions specified?

Model business process and design according to requirements

Construct and assemble service components

Configure and deploy from test through production

Manage to business and IT goals

Answer

Correct Answer: Model business process and design according to requirements

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43. Why is defining appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) important for the success of an SOA?

To provide IT performance metrics

To determine the marketability of the SOA processes

To justify funding for migration of the processes to SOA

To provide feedback indicating Return on Investment (ROI) back to the business

To enable business executives to identify impediments and bottlenecks in performance of the business processes

Answer

Correct Answer: To provide feedback indicating Return on Investment (ROI) back to the business

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44. What is a primary need for implementing SOA governance?

Multiple projects are being implemented concurrently.

The project office is required to report to executive management.

Services are developed, maintained and owned by multiple stakeholders.

Government regulations dictate compliance with government requirements.

Answer

Correct Answer: Services are developed, maintained and owned by multiple stakeholders.

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45. A satellite television service company is starting an SOA project to support an upcoming advertising campaign for high-definition television service. What is the most effective way to ensure that the business issues drive the technical implementation and achieve anticipated Return on Investment (ROI)?

Create a reference model to categorize the standards, specifications and technologies to construct, deliver and exchange application components and a framework to describe,

Document the business requirements and expected goals. Design the business services required to fulfill these needs. Develop test cases based on these initial business

Document the technical design of the project and have the business analysts on the review team ensure this is meeting the business requirements. Validate at various points in

Create a framework for measuring the performance of major IT investments and associated assets. Build a reference model that describes and analyzes the current operational

Map the business requirements against this model to determine the new capabilities that are require

Answer

Correct Answer: Document the business requirements and expected goals. Design the business services required to fulfill these needs. Develop test cases based on these initial business

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46. When starting the journey to SOA, which action should be taken first?

Create a pilot project to demonstrate the value of SOA to the business.

Establish a development environment for shared services that can be used across the enterprise.

Obtain organizational commitment to the SOA direction at the appropriate business and IT levels.

Choose the Ans: Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) vendor as all other artifacts in the environment will be connected to this.

Answer

Correct Answer: Obtain organizational commitment to the SOA direction at the appropriate business and IT levels.

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47. A retail company is having difficulty implementing changes to its business process. Lines of business maintain their own data stores and proprietary access interfaces. There are severalmanual steps which involve recapturing of dat How can they change this process to make it more efficient?

Outsource the shipping function to reduce overhead costs.

Create services that combine application and information assets.

Create shared services to eliminate redundancies in the process.

Choose the latest technology available to integrate the applications and resources.

Answer

Correct Answer: Create shared services to eliminate redundancies in the process.

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48. What can have the largest impact on the performance of an SOA?

Service granularity

Use of open standards

Service version management

Business monitoring of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Answer

Correct Answer: Service granularity

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49. Why is reusability an important aspect to promoting agility in SOA?

Services often represent functions in an SO

Existing applications may serve as the basis for service interfaces.

The interface of a service allows it to be integrated into additional processes without changes.

Service interface details may be defined at a high level according to anticipated business requirements.

Answer

Correct Answer: The interface of a service allows it to be integrated into additional processes without changes.

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50. What will be the largest barrier to their success?

Insufficient SOA skills

Finding unbiased vendor product comparisons

Legacy applications written in an obsolete language

IT staff needing to work with business analysts who do not understand the underlying technical complexity

Answer

Correct Answer: Insufficient SOA skills

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51. Which statement describes the importance of SOA governance?

It provides a tool for controlling the distribution of Web services for a line of business.

It eliminates the risk in migrating a business from standard integration mechanisms to SO

It creates a clearly articulated decision framework for designing, implementing and managing SOA services.

It provides a mechanism for the lines of business to provide input to IT staff for the design of services.

Answer

Correct Answer: It creates a clearly articulated decision framework for designing, implementing and managing SOA services.

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52. An organization plans to automate a business process and expose the result as a service. How should humans interact with such a business process in the context of SOA?

A Web application may be developed to act as a service consumer, allowing humans to invoke the automated business process. Any activity in the business process may be

The use of human activities in such a business process is not recommended since the slow response that will be received from humans is not suitable to the synchronous

A Web application may be developed to act as a service consumer, allowing humans to invoke the automated business process from a browser. All activities in the business

A Web application may be developed to act as a service consumer, allowing humans to invoke the automated business process. Only unusual steps in the business process

All other activities should be performed by automated service providers.

Answer

Correct Answer: A Web application may be developed to act as a service consumer, allowing humans to invoke the automated business process. Any activity in the business process may be

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53. What demonstrates one of the key principles communicated by the IBM SOA Reference Architecture?

Business processes can be modeled in parallel with the services they rely on.

Services are implemented using the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and exposed to service consumers.

Business process developers need to communicate effectively with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) developers.

Changes in service implementations require changes in the service interface which should be reflected in the service registry.

Answer

Correct Answer: Business processes can be modeled in parallel with the services they rely on.

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54. Which two statements define a service in SOA?

It is a transaction that supports a business function.

It is a standard way for messaging between service providers and consumers.

It exposes business functionality with a well-defined interface that can be invoke

It is a language-specific operation that executes across an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

E. It is a loosely-coupled component that can be choreographed to create a composite business function.

Answer

Correct Answer: It exposes business functionality with a well-defined interface that can be invoke
E. It is a loosely-coupled component that can be choreographed to create a composite business function.

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55. If a component of the overall system is functionally complete and operates within that system independently from the functionality of the other components, it is an example of which SOA architectural concept?

Modularity

Extensibility

Loose coupling

Separation of concerns

Composite implementation

Answer

Correct Answer: Modularity

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56. Which factor could positively impact the readiness for and success of SOA?

A high level of understanding of the value of SOA

The use of specialized line of business applications

Informal build and deployment processes for services

The use of in-house developed messaging as part of their Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Answer

Correct Answer: A high level of understanding of the value of SOA

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57. Which approach is considered the most effective first step in ensuring funding for the service lifecycle of shared services at the enterprise level?

Chargeback mechanisms are put in place to prevent illegitimate use of services.

Use a 'tax' based approach based on the overall usage of IT by each line of business.

Form an SOA governance organization and provide this group with the required funding

Use the "first need" approach, where each project that needs a service first funds its creation

Answer

Correct Answer: Form an SOA governance organization and provide this group with the required funding

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58. When services are identified based on isolated applications rather than the business, which problem may result?

Rogue Services

Duplicate Services

Shelfware Services

Application Services

Answer

Correct Answer: Duplicate Services

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59. Customer satisfaction with a new and rather complex product introduced by a company is extremely poor and is affecting sales of the product. The call center is taking too long to handle questions and product experts are not always easily accessible. The goal is to quickly reduce customer complaints. Which actions should be recommended?

Connect all the systems that are involved in the transaction.

Gather all the information about the product in a single repository to be accessed by the call center.

Provide the call center team with access to all the necessary and available information on their screen and collaboration tools to ask experts for assistance with specific

Model the call process to determine the bottlenecks, then process automation tools can be used to obtain all the necessary product information including human task

Answer

Correct Answer: Provide the call center team with access to all the necessary and available information on their screen and collaboration tools to ask experts for assistance with specific

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60. From an IT perspective, what are three goals of moving to SOA?

Increasing the IT budget

Implementing packaged applications

Giving IT the maximum number of options to solve a business challenge or problem

Viewing the operating environment as a set of services provided by the underlying IT infrastructure

Improving Return on Investment (ROI) on IT assets by breaking traditional monolithic systems down into more manageable pieces

Answer

Correct Answer: Giving IT the maximum number of options to solve a business challenge or problem
Viewing the operating environment as a set of services provided by the underlying IT infrastructure
Improving Return on Investment (ROI) on IT assets by breaking traditional monolithic systems down into more manageable pieces

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61. How are the capabilities of a Web 2.0 application enhanced by SOA?

Two or more SOA services may be connected together to create a new business process, such as in the case of a mashup.

Business users can visually assemble mashups by blending publicly available information and services with a company's internal information and services.

Syndication of site content is enabled through the use of SOA, since it involves standardized protocols, which permit end-users to make use of a site's data in another context.

The community that uses the SOA services can employ community mechanisms on the

Application, such as ratings and comments, to provide feedback so the application can be E.

Answer

Correct Answer: Business users can visually assemble mashups by blending publicly available information and services with a company's internal information and services.

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62. Which aspects of SOA can reduce overlap and duplication?

Modularity and encapsulation

SOA governance and service reuse

Service reuse and process modeling

Loose-coupling and separation of concerns

Answer

Correct Answer: SOA governance and service reuse

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63. What represents the business objective(s) to be achieved through SOA governance?

Attainment of business agility and competitive advantage

Assures the alignment of the business strategy with its SOA initiatives

Assures that service entities perform to the level and response times agreed upon

Assures the value of SOA to the business by focusing on the design and implementation of services

Answer

Correct Answer: Assures the alignment of the business strategy with its SOA initiatives

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64. Which SOA architectural concept is applied as an organization combines services to perform a business process?

Modularity

Composition

Encapsulation

Separation of concerns

Answer

Correct Answer: Composition

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65. How can disparate services communicate with each other in an SOA?

Use XML messages to provide interoperability

Service providers adopt one common data model for all services.

Enforce a common data model at the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) layer.

Business analysts create the integration logic details to negotiate between services.

Answer

Correct Answer: Use XML messages to provide interoperability

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66. How does SOA achieve alignment between business and IT?

By ensuring services represent the underlying IT functions that the business must use in order to function

By hiding operational details allowing services to be loosely coupled and changed to suit the situation

By creating business processes that are direct representations of the business which can be simulated and refined

By providing service operations that represent business tasks allowing those operations to be used in whatever combination the business decides is appropriate

Answer

Correct Answer: By providing service operations that represent business tasks allowing those operations to be used in whatever combination the business decides is appropriate

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67. Which organization has the greatest need for SOA governance?

One that is structured around localized business representatives for the IT team(s).

One in which the departments are small, geographically centralized, and provide many goods and services.

One that is relatively large, geographically dispersed, and with a centralized management and funding structure.

One in which the funding, management and control of IT resources are spread among multiple stakeholders in different parts of the organization.

Answer

Correct Answer: One in which the funding, management and control of IT resources are spread among multiple stakeholders in different parts of the organization.

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68. How can a company enforce adherence to the SOA policies that have been defined?

Define and execute conformance checkpoints across the service life cycle.

Initiate and enable SOA governance communication, education and mentor plans.

Commit to a strategy for SOA in the context of the business goals and IT strategy.

Implement governance organizational structures such as architectural review boards, executive steering committees and Centers of Excellence (CoE) to ensure adherence.

Answer

Correct Answer: Define and execute conformance checkpoints across the service life cycle.

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69. In the context of SOA and Business Process Management (BPM), what demonstrates flexibility in a business process?

Tasks can be rearranged without impact to the user.

Business rules can be dynamically stopped at runtime.

New services can be built at runtime without any special tooling.

Business processes can be automated so they do not require feedback.

Answer

Correct Answer: Tasks can be rearranged without impact to the user.

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70. What does the WS-I Basic Profile provide for an SOA?

Test suites for Web services interoperability

An implementation of interoperable Web services

Interoperability guidance for Web services specifications

A certification of interoperability for Web services engines

Answer

Correct Answer: Interoperability guidance for Web services specifications

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71. Which three characteristics of services indicate a mature SOA environment?

Services are discoverable

Services use Web 2.0 technology.

Services are exposed by an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Services are composed into broader business functionality.

Services contain logic to provide compatibility across technologies.

Answer

Correct Answer: Services are exposed by an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Services are composed into broader business functionality.

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72. From an IT perspective, what is the primary goal of moving to SOA?

Make IT more accountable

Increase the flexibility of IT

Technology and platform independence

Reduce short-term development and maintenance costs

Answer

Correct Answer: Increase the flexibility of IT

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73. Which is an important decision for the adoption of SOA?

Use Web services for all SOA communication.

Use the latest open standard specification in the industry.

Focus on a core set of systems when defining enterprise services.

Encapsulate underlying technical differences between different SOA implementations.

Answer

Correct Answer: Encapsulate underlying technical differences between different SOA implementations.

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74. What is a method for verifying the business success of an SOA solution?

Pilot the solution and solicit feedback from stakeholders and subject matter experts.

Implement appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) at multiple levels of the solution.

Implement a technology think-tank integrated with the lines of business and with overall executive sponsorship.

Implement a Center of Excellence (CoE) to provide a tight linkage with business to define services and operational characteristics at technical and business levels.

Answer

Correct Answer: Implement appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) at multiple levels of the solution.

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75. Organizations that do not adopt SOA will experience which outcome?

The adoption of Web 2.0 technologies will be more problemati

Outsourcing non-core business functions will become impractical.

The potential value of existing IT assets will not be fully realize

The implementation of Web services to handle real-time transactions will not be possible.

Answer

Correct Answer: The potential value of existing IT assets will not be fully realize

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76. What does the SOAP specification define?

A format for XML messaging

An interface to a business process

An Internet communications protocol

The payload contents for a Web service message

Answer

Correct Answer: A format for XML messaging

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77. How do Web 2.0 applications communicate with SOA services?

Both architectures use XML to ensure interoperability.

Web 2.0 technologies communicate using Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) to SOA services.

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) provides an efficient data format for SOA services.

Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications can make service requests from a Web browser.

Answer

Correct Answer: Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications can make service requests from a Web browser.

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78. Which technique improves a business process?

Perform analysis of the resources being used by the process

Simulation of the process to identify and test improvements

Domain decomposition to identify the Ans: granularity of tasks

Monitoring availability of components that are used by the business process

Answer

Correct Answer: Simulation of the process to identify and test improvements

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79. A company has prioritized their most important requirements for SOA to be the need to speed up integration, reduce application redundancy and provide the flexibility to change service implementations. Which type of project should be recommended?

Create a common metadata model that can be used for all development projects.

Implement an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and registry/repository as a connectivity layer in the SOA architectur

Document the existing architecture, legacy systems, and interfaces. Make this available in a common repository that can be accessed by all developers.

Use business modeling tools to model and simulate the application development process and identify bottlenecks. Address highest priority bottlenecks that can be automated to E.

Answer

Correct Answer: Implement an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and registry/repository as a connectivity layer in the SOA architectur

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80. Which action should they take first?

Create a service registry.

Define an SOA governance model.

Perform an SOA maturity assessment.

Create an SOA Center of Excellence (CoE).

Answer

Correct Answer: Perform an SOA maturity assessment.

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81. Which three meet the requirement for SOA identity propagation?

It translates between different identities.

It requires the use of open standards for authentication.

It handles services which each have their own identity registry.

It handles identities which are coupled with application business logi

It understands and operates with a variety of formats for representing identity.

Answer

Correct Answer: It handles services which each have their own identity registry.
It understands and operates with a variety of formats for representing identity.

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82. Which two statements about security considerations in an SOA environment are true?

Firewalls or routers are the mechanisms for securing an SOA business environment.

Security policy decisions are made and carried out within an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Identities exist for both users and services, and both must be subject to the same controls.

The creation of roles for business process task lists are used to prevent business partner access to protected assets.

There is a need to manage identity and security across a range of systems and services that are implemented in a diverse mix of new and old technologies.

Answer

Correct Answer: Identities exist for both users and services, and both must be subject to the same controls.
There is a need to manage identity and security across a range of systems and services that are implemented in a diverse mix of new and old technologies.

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