General Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) MCQs

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

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

3. Which action should they take first?

4. 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?

5. Which technique improves a business process?

6. When is an SOA implementation most appropriate?

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

8. What does the SOAP specification define?

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

10. A business has been 'doing' SOA for a while and is becoming disillusioned with the results. They are not seeing the Return on Investment (ROI) they expected even though they have created several hundred services. What is the likely cause of this problem?

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

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

13. Which specifications are central to Web services?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

27. 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?

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

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

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

31. 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?

32. Which two statements define a service in SOA?

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

34. 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?

35. Which statement describes the importance of SOA governance?

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

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

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

39. 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?

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

41. 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)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

60. Which standard describes the interface for Web services?

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

62. What most accurately describes a business process?

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

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

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

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

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

68. 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?

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

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

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

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

73. Which is a driving business need for SOA?

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

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

76. Which initiative helps achieve business agility in SOA?

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

78. 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?

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

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

81. What is an SOA repository?

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

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

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

85. 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?