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QUESTION NO: 2
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Which initiative helps achieve business agility in SOA?
A. Pairing up the appropriate service consumers and providers.
B. Buying prefabricated objects to quickly implement business functions.
C. Choreographing a business process to efficiently implement the desired business functions.
D. Designing and developing a new business process model rather than adapting an existing
one.
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QUESTION NO: 5
In applying SOA, which principle can reduce overall cost?
A. Reuse services across lines of business.
B. Build services for only the most important business functions.
C. Build general services that can perform a variety of business tasks.
D. Reimplement all services on a consistent hardware and software platform.
Answer: A
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Which business driver would cause a company in the healthcare industry to consider SOA?
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QUESTION NO: 9
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Answer: C
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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 datA. How can they change this process to
make it more efficient?
A. Outsource the shipping function to reduce overhead costs.
B. Create services that combine application and information assets.
C. Create shared services to eliminate redundancies in the process.
D. Choose the latest technology available to integrate the applications and resources.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 11
Which basic characteristics of SOA can contribute to business agility?
A. Reuse and security
B. Loose coupling and reuse
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QUESTION NO: 12
Which statement describes a business process in the context of SOA?
A. It is a business policy or decision procedure.
B. Items are accumulated and then processed together.
C. It is a series of tasks connected together like building blocks.
D. It enables interactions between message consumers and providers.
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A. Modularity
B. Extensibility
C. Loose coupling
D. Separation of concerns
E. Composite implementation
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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?
QUESTION NO: 14
How are the capabilities of a Web 2.0 application enhanced by SOA?
A. Two or more SOA services may be connected together to create a new business process,
such as in the case of a mashup.
B. Business users can visually assemble mashups by blending publicly available information and
services with a company's internal information and services.
C. 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.
D. 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.
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QUESTION NO: 15
Which SOA architectural concept is applied as an organization combines services to perform a
business process?
A. Modularity
B. Composition
C. Encapsulation
D. Separation of concerns
Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 18
What does the information in the service registry support?
QUESTION NO: 19
In the context of SOA and Business Process Management (BPM), what demonstrates flexibility in
a business process?
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QUESTION NO: 20
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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?
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A. They establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) to monitor and report on the SOA services
performance.
B. They contact a third party to analyze and evaluate the new processes against the business
objectives.
C. They set and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track performance against the
business objectives.
D. They model the new processes in a business model simulator to identify bottlenecks and
potential performance issues.
Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 21
In which situation would a manufacturing plant most likely choose to use an SOA approach for
their Customer Order Analysis and Tracking System?
A. The company wanted development and operations to be as simple as possible.
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Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 24
Which three characteristics of services indicate a mature SOA environment?
A. Services are discoverable.
B. Services use Web 2.0 technology.
C. Services are exposed by an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
D. Services are composed into broader business functionality.
E. Services contain logic to provide compatibility across technologies.
F. Services use scripting languages to improve system responsiveness.
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QUESTION NO: 25
What is a role of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in SOA management?
A. To provide the governance of services by limiting who can access services
B. To provide point-to-point connection of service consumers and service providers
C. To provide flexibility that allows business process inefficiencies to be rapidly corrected
D. To ensure a seamless flow of information from anywhere at any time using a variety of
protocols
Answer: C
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What provides the most value in helping developers find existing SOA services and driving
reuse?
A. Service monitoring
B. An asset repository
C. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
D. Access services to legacy systems
Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 29
Which activity is required to successfully implement SOA governance?
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How can a company enforce adherence to the SOA policies that have been defined?
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A. Define and execute conformance checkpoints across the service life cycle.
B. Initiate and enable SOA governance communication, education and mentor plans.
C. Commit to a strategy for SOA in the context of the business goals and IT strategy.
D. Implement governance organizational structures such as architectural review boards,
executive steering committees and Centers of Excellence (CoE) to ensure adherence.
Answer: A
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Which statement describes the importance of SOA governance?
A. It provides a tool for controlling the distribution of Web services for a line of business.
B. It eliminates the risk in migrating a business from standard integration mechanisms to SOA.
C. It creates a clearly articulated decision framework for designing, implementing and managing
SOA services.
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Organizations that do not adopt SOA will experience which outcome?
A. The adoption of Web 2.0 technologies will be more problematic.
B. Outsourcing non-core business functions will become impractical.
C. The potential value of existing IT assets will not be fully realized.
D. The implementation of Web services to handle real-time transactions will not be possible.
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A. Adding an operation
B. Removing an operation
C. Renaming an operation
D. Changing the parameters of an operation
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When releasing a new service version, which changes to the WSDL document are
backwardcompatible?
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QUESTION NO: 36
When is the location of the service provider first determined in the SOA lifecycle?
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Answer: D
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Which advantages does the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) have over point-to-point solutions?
QUESTION NO: 38
What demonstrates one of the key principles communicated by the IBM SOA Reference
Architecture?
A. Business processes can be modeled in parallel with the services they rely on.
B. Services are implemented using the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and exposed to service
consumers.
C. Business process developers need to communicate effectively with Enterprise Service Bus
(ESB) developers.
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QUESTION NO: 39
Why is messaging important to an SOA?
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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. 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
B. 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
C. 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
D. 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
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Which two roles do Web services play in an SOA?
A. They provide mediation for service requests.
B. They provide the framework for information as a service.
C. They support interoperability between disparate technologies.
D. They provide an open standard means for describing service interfaces.
E. They provide the messaging infrastructure for the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
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Access services represent which vital function in the IBM SOA Reference Architecture?
A. Distributed role-based access control mechanisms
B. Connectivity with existing and legacy functionality
C. Additional security at gateway points between domains
D. Services exposed across different business units or organizations
Answer: B
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QUESTION NO: 48
Which might cause a challenge to prioritizing, defining and funding services in SOA?
A. Services that support multiple projects and/or lines of business
B. Services that need to consider non-disruptive roll-out of changes
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What are two recommended approaches to SOA adoption?
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QUESTION NO: 53
When starting the journey to SOA, which action should be taken first?
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QUESTION NO: 55
What will the IBM SOA Assessment Tool help to define?
A. The most appropriate SOA entry point
B. The benefits of leveraging existing applications
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QUESTION NO: 56
Which people, organizational or technology factors would positively impact the readiness for SOA
and its success?
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QUESTION NO: 57
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Which approach is considered the most effective first step in ensuring funding for the service
lifecycle of shared services at the enterprise level?
QUESTION NO: 58
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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?
A. Connect all the systems that are involved in the transaction.
B. Gather all the information about the product in a single repository to be accessed by the call
center.
C. 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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QUESTION NO: 59
A recent strategic corporate directive is demanding a decrease in the operational budget of a
cargo airline by 2%. The CIO has indicated a shift to SOA can help gain efficiencies in
development costs. The company has just signed a partnership with a package delivery company
that requires integration between the systems of the two companies. When preparing for SOA
adoption, what is most important to document to show Return on Investment (ROI) from the shift
to SOA?
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A. The current operational budget for the company and the partner company
B. The current IT governance overlap between the company and the partner company
C. The current Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the company and the partner company
D. The estimated cost for point-to-point integration with the partner company using the current
messaging system
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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?
A. Create a common metadata model that can be used for all development projects.
B. Implement an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and registry/repository as a connectivity layer in
the SOA architecture.
C. Document the existing architecture, legacy systems, and interfaces. Make this available in a
common repository that can be accessed by all developers.
D. 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: B
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In preparing to go to SOA, which governance aspect should be implemented from the beginning?
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QUESTION NO: 62
Which is an important decision for the adoption of SOA?
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QUESTION NO: 63
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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?
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A. Present the IT savings that can be achieved via an SOA-based reuse strategy.
B. Emphasize the significant market acceptance of SOA as the new standard architectural style.
C. Focus on the rate of change in the industry and the need for business agility to take advantage
of these marketplace changes.
D. 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.
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Which people, organizational or technology factors negatively impact the adoption of SOA?
A. Putting funding mechanisms in place to encourage reuse
B. Agreeing on policies for service reuse across lines of business
C. Planning to perform a complete overhaul of all business processes
D. Defining additional capabilities required, such as upgrades to the IT infrastructure
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QUESTION NO: 65
Which situation is most appropriate for an SOA implementation?
A. Customer's IT strategy is to use desktop applications.
B. The organization relies on a homogeneous environment.
C. Pilot and prototype development is a focus of the IT organization.
D. Parts of an application need to be developed, maintained and updated independently.
Answer: D
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Which people, organizational or technology factors would limit an organization's readiness for
SOA?
A. Skills not available
B. Standardization of services in each industry
C. Tight integration with their business partners
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QUESTION NO: 68
From an IT perspective, what are three goals of moving to SOA?
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Answer: C
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QUESTION NO: 70
When starting to adopt SOA, which action should be taken early to help drive acceptance and
success?
A. Establish the SOA strategy and project roadmap.
B. Identify the first services required and ensure they are designed well, considering security and
scalability.
C. Roll the SOA project in as the next phase of a project under development to prove the value to
the business.
D. Prepare the infrastructure for SOA by establishing a development environment, testing
environment and the control process to promote services.
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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?
A. Services are replicated based on language and geographic needs.
B. Developers need better training on how to create reusable services.
C. Governance processes are not in place to review and approve services.
D. Scaling the environment is challenging for such large SOA implementations.
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QUESTION NO: 75
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QUESTION NO: 76
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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?
A. Create a new application to deal with the bottlenecks.
B. Replace legacy systems with more advanced technology.
C. Automate the manual steps so that the process is easier to monitor.
D. Provide multiple paths through the process for some of the functions.
Answer: D
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At which two points in SOA communication are registries used?
A. During discovery
B. During publication
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QUESTION NO: 78
Why is defining appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) important for the success of an
SOA?
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Which statement is true about a business process in the context of Business Process
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A. It should be monitored.
B. It only deals with automated tasks.
C. It interacts with a single application.
D. It has one primary Key Performance Indicator (KPI).
QUESTION NO: 80
Which aspects of SOA can reduce overlap and duplication?
A. Modularity and encapsulation
B. SOA governance and service reuse
C. Service reuse and process modeling
D. Loose-coupling and separation of concerns
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QUESTION NO: 81
How do Web 2.0 applications communicate with SOA services?
A. Both architectures use XML to ensure interoperability.
B. Web 2.0 technologies communicate using Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) to SOA services.
C. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) provides an efficient data format for SOA services.
D. Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications can make service requests from a Web
browser.
Answer: D
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Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 84
Which three statements describe services within a SOA?
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QUESTION NO: 85
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Answer: A
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QUESTION NO: 87
Why is reusability an important aspect to promoting agility in SOA?
A. Services often represent functions in an SOA.
B. Existing applications may serve as the basis for service interfaces.
C. The interface of a service allows it to be integrated into additional processes without changes.
D. Service interface details may be defined at a high level according to anticipated business
requirements.
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QUESTION NO: 88
Which organization has the greatest need for SOA governance?
A. One that is structured around localized business representatives for the IT team(s).
B. One in which the departments are small, geographically centralized, and provide many goods
and services.
C. One that is relatively large, geographically dispersed, and with a centralized management and
funding structure.
D. 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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A. Rogue Service
B. Duplicate Service
C. Shelfware Service
D. Composite Application Service
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Which service is running in an SOA environment that is not defined in a service registry and is
built without proper governance or controls?
How does the SOA governance body ensure that services are not redundant within the
organization?
A. It must manage service distribution and rights management.
B. It must enforce communication between stakeholders and subject matter experts.
C. It must enforce coordination between service providers across the organization.
D. It must coordinate communication of business requirements to development organizations
during the planning phase.
Answer: C
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QUESTION NO: 92
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Which requirement is fulfilled by dynamic management of services during the execution in SOA?
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What is the impact of a service increasing in popularity in the absence of effective governance?
A. Shared maintenance costs
B. Increased service availability
C. Capacity requirements may not be supportable
D. Increased Return on Investment (ROI) for the service
Answer: C
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Which is a role of an SOA governance body?
A. Evaluating performance, availability and scalability of services
B. Defining the processes, procedures, mechanisms and organizations that guide the
implementation of services
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QUESTION NO: 95
What is one purpose of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in SOA management and governance?
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QUESTION NO: 97
What can have the largest impact on the performance of an SOA?
A. Service granularity
B. Use of open standards
C. Service version management
D. Business monitoring of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Answer: A
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A. A reference architecture
B. A service interface description
C. A Web services standards glossary
D. A proposed service registry document
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Answer: D
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A. Access Services
B. Process Services
C. Infrastructure Services
D. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
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In the IBM SOA Reference Architecture, the service registry should be logically located with
which other component?
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