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A. The IT infrastructure approach provided by SOA recommends having multiple services for the
same function.
B. The IT infrastructure approach provided by SOA requires no change to meet new business
needs.
C. The IT infrastructure can easily be adapted to meet business needs.
D. The responsibility of modifications to the IT infrastructure is given to a single authority to
speed up the modifications.
2. The business function that an SOA can impact the most in order to improve competitiveness
and productivity is one that:
A. is already defined as a web service.
B. is to be provided to customers globally.
C. has a homogeneous IT environment.
D. has subsecond response time constraints.
3. What will cost more if SOA is not adopted?
A. Product deployment time is saved.
B. Web services cannot be exposed.
C. Money is saved because SOA is a very expensive solution.
D. Department or inter-company mergers are more difficult.
4. Which three serve as catalysts in an SOA to provide business agility? (Choose 3)
A. Reusable services
B. Limitation on the total number of services
C. Ability to enlarge the operation and scope of services
D. Use of J2EE
E. Single-platform IT environment
F. Ability to replace service providers
5. A furniture store lets the customers view its product catalogue online as a PDF file or as a
printed copy in store. Customers pay for an item in-store or on the phone. The store wants to
enable online payment as well. The store has a supplier which is notified of purchases so it can
ship the item(s). The supplier is not expected to change in the future. The notification and
shipment processes are highly optimized and stable. If the company adopts SOA, which
business function will most improve competitiveness and productivity?
A. View catalogue
B. Purchase item
C. Notify shipper of purchase
D. Ship item
6. What are two benefits of adopting an SOA? (Choose 2)
A. Easier to change a business partner
B. Easier to attain a custom point-to-point integration
C. Better alignment between the business and IT department
D. Limitation on the total number of communication mechanisms to manage
E. Use of a single-platform environment
7. In which two situations does SOA have the potential to be significantly beneficial? (Choose 2)
A. When true real-time performance is critical
B. In a heterogeneous IT environment
C. When there are only a few reasons for future change to the system under consideration
D. When the applications accessing a system are geographically spread out
E. In a homogeneous IT environment
8. A business analyst identifies a set of key business services. How could an SOA architect
initially use this information?
A. Arrange the business services into a sequence of business components
B. Choreograph the business services to carry out a business process
C. Create software requirements to automate the business services
D. Use a Web service registry to automate the business services
9. Which three are XML-based? (Choose 3)
A. WSDL
B. SOAP
C. ESB
D. BPEL
E. EAI
F. RPC
10. What is an example of an expense department business process?
A. A Web application deposits an expense reimbursement into an employee's bank account.
B. An expense department holds a meeting about employee benefits, timeliness, and equal
opportunity.
C. A clerk receives an expense claim, validates the claim, and generates a reimbursement check.
D. An employee submits an expense claim through an online Web application.
11. A widget company takes orders from customers, allows the customer to cancel an order and
to view outstanding orders.
Which three services are the most effective services to identify? (Choose 3)
A. View order history for a customer
B. List outstanding orders for a customer
C. Order a widget
D. Delete an order
E. Search outstanding orders
F. Cancel an order for a customer
12. Which technology standard provides a method of documenting the function of a service, a
taxonomy for classifying the service, and a search facility for finding a service?
A. SOAP
B. WSDL
C. UDDI
D. XML
13. Which two describe aspects of loose-coupling of services? (Choose 2)
A. The consumer does not know the location of a provider's service.
B. Messaging mechanisms are language and platform independent.
C. Constant availability removes the need for asynchronous messaging.
D. Format transformations are avoided only through the use of adapters.
E. Loose coupling removes the need for cohesion within a service.
14. Which standard is used to orchestrate services into business processes?
A. ESB
B. BPEL
C. WSDL
D. WS-I
15. Which two are characteristics of a business service? (Choose 2)
A. Tightly-coupled
B. Interface-based
C. Loosely-cohesive
D. Stateless
E. Platform-bound
16. Which standard defines the interfaces to Web services?
A. WSDL
B. SOAP
C. UDDI
D. WS-I
27. What are the key components of an enterprise service bus (ESB)?
A. Development services, deployment services, business management services
B. Transport services, messaging services, and mediation services
C. Development tools, business performance management tools, services tools
D. Service provider, service requester, service registry
28. The model phase of an SOA life cycle deals with: (Choose 2)
A. what services need to be built.
B. service API transport issues.
C. platform-specific issues.
D. how services are to be built.
E. monitoring services from IT perspective.
29. Which statement most accurately describes SOA orchestration and choreography?
A. It models how a service is realized and executed in the software implementation layer.
B. It enables consumers to directly interact with lower level resource services and bypass
mediation services.
C. It manages interaction details of composing services and execution sequences.
D. It represents the interaction between two atomic units of service process logic implementation.
30. Which are components of Web services architecture?
A. Service requester, service provider, service registry
B. Development tools, business performance management tools, services tools
C. Transport services, messaging services, mediation services
D. XML namespace, XML schema, service consumer
31. Which three statements are the most accurate about the role of Web services in an SOA?
(Choose 3)
A. Web services are required to implement an SOA.
B. A Web service is a software system identified by a URL, whose public interfaces and bindings
are defined and described using XML.
C. Web services are message-oriented.
D. Web services are completely independent of Web applications.
E. Web services are solely externally focused.
F. Web services are cross-platform and cross-language.
32. Which SOA life cycle phase deals with how service interface definitions can be derived from
the business processes?
A. Testing
B. Assemble
C. Model
D. Manage
33. In SOA, security authorization rules enforce:
A. the determination of the identity of a business service user.
B. the principals allowed to use a business process.
C. compliance with governmental security regulations.
D. privacy by encrypting the incoming data within a business process
34. What are two of the unique challenges presented by the SOA environment that define the
need for effective SOA governance over and above typical IT governance? (Choose 2)
A. Monitoring the performance of an SOA-based solution is more complicated than typical IT
projects.
B. Applications and infrastructure are viewed as a portfolio of assets and services.
C. SOA is based on several open, industry standards and technologies.
D. SOA is implemented in a homogeneous IT environment.
E. Assets, services, and business processes are reused across all the company's organizational
structures
35. What should be considered when implementing an SOA governance practice?
A. Using industry-based standard business models.
B. Creating a WSDL description of each service.
C. Enforcing an organization-wide JNDI registry.
D. Modeling the business as a series of use cases.
36. A corporate SOA governance policy mandates that anonymous access to services by
personnel and components is not allowed. Where is the point to enforce authenticated access?
A. In the application server
B. In the messaging server
C. At the enterprise service bus (ESB)
D. At the corporate firewall
37. What is the recommended role of the governance body in the funding of an SOA project?
A. It does not have a role in project funding. Every team in the SOA project decides their required
funding on their own.
B. It should follow a consultative role and, when required, offer its recommendations on project
funding.
C. It only sets up guiding principles to determine project funding and every team follows the
principles to determine their team's project funding.
D. It should identify the required project funding and strictly ensure it is followed by everyone.
38. A change to a single business service could affect which two areas of a served enterprise?
(Choose 2)
A. Deployment guidelines
B. IT policy
C. Personnel
D. Governance
E. Processes
39. What are two reasons to monitor the lifecycle of a business service? (Choose 2)
A. A business service could be part of multiple business processes.
B. The business service lifecycle is a function of response time.
C. IT should carry out maintenance of internalized discovery mechanisms.
D. Many consumers could be affected by one business service.
E. The corporate board needs to manage the governance upgrade lifecycle.
40. Users of a rebate payment system should not issue checks to relatives. The operation of the
rebate department is split across multiple components. Which is the most effective governance
strategy for monitoring check-issuing activity?
A. Configure the enterprise service bus (ESB) to maintain an audit trail of all messages.
B. Require a signature to authorize a check.
C. Analyze all application server request logs using a BPEL script.
D. Use SOA to monitor the bank account statements.
41. Which two practices could appear within a mail-order corporation's SOA governance
framework? (Choose 2)
A. Monitor order fulfillment employees' pay for alignment with regional averages.
B. Stipulate who is allowed to change an order fulfillment service.
C. Create new separate order fulfillment applications.
D. Separate IT strategy from order fulfillment business strategy.
E. Ensure that order fulfillment conforms to corporate standards.
42. What is a reliable measurement for Quality-of-Service (QoS) compliance?
A. Database size and growth
B. End-to-end transaction time
C. Size of HTTP cookies
D. Number of XML nodes in the message
43. What are the three most common drivers to adapting an SOA? (Choose 3)
A. Having a shared-services model
D. Provide a consistent customer experience through channel integration of access to the order
management systems.