Sample Questions for IBM SOA Test 664
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Sample questions for IBM SOA Test 664/665
1. How can SOA provide business agility?
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
17. Which statement is the most accurate definition of loose-coupling in SOA?
A. Services that use the SOA WS-* standards can communicate via XML messaging across
different platforms.
B. Service interfaces can change without affecting consumers.
C. Protocol and format of messaging can change without affecting the service contract.
D. Composite services can be built and reconfigured from other services that may use disparate
technologies.
18. What is the effect of using XML in an SOA?
A. The enterprise service bus (ESB) mediates during service invocation.
B. Web services are invoked.
C. Business processes are modeled.
D. The service repository provides persistence.
19. In the context of a business process in SOA, which statement most accurately describes what
a transaction is?
A. Transactions are reliable updates via queued writes from the service requestor using
message-oriented middleware.
B. The relevant standards as related to SOA and transactions are WS-Coordination, WSAtomicTransaction and WSBusinessActivity.
C. During the execution of service invocations, transactions represent the activity in your service
workflow.
D. The WS-Coordination framework enables existing transaction processing, workflow, and other
systems for coordination to hide their proprietary protocols and to operate in a heterogeneous
environment.
20. Which statement is the most accurate definition of a service?
A. It is language and platform independent logic that can be invoked across a network as part of
compound components.
B. It is reusable, stateless business functionality that satisfies the needs of a wide variety of
processes.
C. It is a self-describing interface to reusable functionality and relies on the state of collaborating
services.
D. It is a unit of work in a registry that is available upon receipt of a SOAP message.
21. Which statement is true about the SOA Service Model?
A. It enables consumers to interact with services independent of service implementations.
B. It reflects the platform-specific view of the services.
C. It implements the complete Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements.
D. It provides the implementation for resource and platform virtualization.
22. An online shopping cart application wants to use an SOA shipment processing service from
another department. For the service consumer, which two should be the most important
concerns about the service provider during the model and assembly phases of the SOA
lifecycle? (Choose 2)
A. Platform of the service implementation
B. Invocation patterns between the services
C. Programming language of the service implementation
D. Messaging data formats
E. XSLT used by the service for transformation
23. A bank has individual services that perform specific tasks such as security, account
verification, balance checking etc. The bank wants to create another service that can help
perform all these tasks in a single interface. The new service falls into which service category?
A. Composite service
B. Hybrid service
C. Utility service
D. Wrapper service
24. Which role would typically create message flows, mediations, and transformations on the
enterprise service bus (ESB)?
A. The Service Developer
B. The Interoperability Deployer
C. The Services Governor
D. The Integration Specialist
25. In an SOA, what provides all the inter-connectivity capabilities required to leverage and use
services implemented across the entire architecture?
A. Web services
B. Java Messaging Services (JMS)
C. Services integration platform
D. Enterprise service bus (ESB)
26. What allows a service to be independent of the platform, language, or logic?
A. A universal repository
B. The service registry
C. Componetization
D. The service broker
E. An interface
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
B. Having application-neutral interfaces
C. Fostering a culture of reuse within ones development teams
D. Having business services re-implemented as web services
E. Having immediate Return-On-Investment (ROI) for almost all projects
F. Adapting the latest distributed technologies and tools
44. Which three factors affect the readiness for SOA? (Choose 3)
A. The maturity of SOA technology
B. Businesses have changed at such an unprecedented rate that skills and cultural adaptability
fell short
C. SOA solves all technical and business problems
D. SOA is, in part, a marketing slogan, a set of slides and quick fixes that can be applied
E. SOA alleviates the need for prioritizing investment opportunities
F. There is a fundamental shift in the way businesses will be required to adapt and change
45. Which business issue most accurately describes the foundation from which all else in SOA
can be built?
A. An abstraction layer between business processes and the services that are provided
B. An active working covenant between IT and business groups
C. The changing business and IT roles when moving towards SOA
D. Business management needing to know the details of how an application is built
46. Which SOA entry point most accurately matches the following sentence? "Start building a
view of key business processes by aggregating information to help people make better
decisions."
A. People
B. Process
C. Connectivity
D. Information
47. Which adoption strategy is considered to be invalid when implementing an SOA?
A. Making a business case for the adoption of the architecture
B. Validating available technologies
C. Selecting a business pilot and enabling a line-of-business
D. A big-bang approach
E. A progressive adoption strategy
48. How does SOA justify investment in IT resources?
A. By focusing on technical operations
B. By focusing on more complex and richly featured technologies
C. By deploying a diversity of methods and approaches to solve technical issues
D. By closer alignment of IT to business services
49. An SOA compliant business needs to add new and enhanced implementation to its existing
service while providing backward compatibility. What is the most effective way to support the
existing and new service consumers transparently?
A. Add a new service operation to the existing service interface
B. Create a new interface for the new service with the same namespace
C. Create a new interface for the new service with a new namespace
D. Use mediation services with necessary versioning
50. What is a valid IT challenge in adopting and managing SOA for providing enterprise-wide
business services?
A. Choosing open standards for service transport
B. Designing appropriate granularity of service compositions
C. Minimizing impact to consumers due to platform changes
D. Content-based routing of services
51. What is considered a barrier to the adoption of SOA?
A. Time spent justifying the business value of SOA
B. Leveraging an enterprise roadmap for introducing SOA into an enterprise
C. A low expectation of SOA reusability and control
D. A focus on the non-functional requirements of an SOA deployment, such as security and
performance
52. Which two factors have a positive impact on becoming ready for SOA? (Choose 2)
A. A single platform environment
B. Limiting the amount of change in the organization
C. A clear separation of function which bounds the scope of the component service
D. Services decomposed to the right level
E. Not using the Internet as a communication channel
53. Which two are benefits of aligning IT strategy with business strategy? (Choose 2)
A. Breaking down proprietary barriers by enforcing the use of standards
B. Saving time, money, and effort through reuse of components
C. Recoding all software to reflect business services
D. Homogenizing the IT environment to promote faster integration
E. Clearer justification of IT investments through closer association of IT to business services
54. Which three are barriers to the adoption of SOA? (Choose 3)
A. Business and IT are not always aligned
B. The perception that it seems too difficult to do the job properly
C. The company is focused on the incremental delivery of services
D. The value proposition of SOA has been fully communicated
E. The business requirements are not fully understood
F. The Return-On-Investment (ROI) is immediate
55. An insurance company wants to outsource the claims adjustment process to third party
claims adjusters working as independent agents. The adjustment process typically consists of
manual activities, such as inspecting or photographing damage, as well as automated activities,
such as requesting credit or fraud reports. Given this scenario, which of the following options is
the best way to proceed?
A. Design a business process layer and a supporting component layer. Implement both layers
using Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) for performance and consistency.
B. Iteratively decompose the process. Implement each composite application using Business
Process Execution Language and individual automated services using web services.
C. Iteratively decompose the process. Implement the business process layer using Message
Broker flows and the underlying component layer using Message Driven Beans.
D. Design a business process layer and a supporting component layer. Implement the business
process layer using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and the underlying
component layer using Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs).
56. Which of the following scenarios is most likely a candidate for SOA implementation?
A. A customer is encountering severe performance problems.
B. A customer has many applications with overlapping domains.
C. A customer has to implement a government-mandated regulation in six months.
D. A customer has an integrated, off-the-shelf application set running on mainframes.
57. Which of the following components is most appropriate to gather for an IT assessment in
support of an SOA project?
A. Business goals - the overall management direction for the enterprise
B. Operational Model - that defines the application components and their placement
C. Reference Architecture - a definition of a proposed SOA architecture
D. Change Cases - that describe the impact of modifications to the applications that are needed
58. Which of the following best reflects a project that would leverage SOA to align a business
issue to the IT environment in regards to improving customer satisfaction?
A. Provide more accurate and timely tracking of orders by providing order management system
access to delivery vehicles.
B. Increase reliability and scalability of the self-service web environment by migrating to a more
robust J2EE environment.
C. Improve call center productivity by providing single sign-on, portal access to order
management systems.
D. Provide a consistent customer experience through channel integration of access to the order
management systems.
1. How can SOA provide business agility?
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
17. Which statement is the most accurate definition of loose-coupling in SOA?
A. Services that use the SOA WS-* standards can communicate via XML messaging across
different platforms.
B. Service interfaces can change without affecting consumers.
C. Protocol and format of messaging can change without affecting the service contract.
D. Composite services can be built and reconfigured from other services that may use disparate
technologies.
18. What is the effect of using XML in an SOA?
A. The enterprise service bus (ESB) mediates during service invocation.
B. Web services are invoked.
C. Business processes are modeled.
D. The service repository provides persistence.
19. In the context of a business process in SOA, which statement most accurately describes what
a transaction is?
A. Transactions are reliable updates via queued writes from the service requestor using
message-oriented middleware.
B. The relevant standards as related to SOA and transactions are WS-Coordination, WSAtomicTransaction and WSBusinessActivity.
C. During the execution of service invocations, transactions represent the activity in your service
workflow.
D. The WS-Coordination framework enables existing transaction processing, workflow, and other
systems for coordination to hide their proprietary protocols and to operate in a heterogeneous
environment.
20. Which statement is the most accurate definition of a service?
A. It is language and platform independent logic that can be invoked across a network as part of
compound components.
B. It is reusable, stateless business functionality that satisfies the needs of a wide variety of
processes.
C. It is a self-describing interface to reusable functionality and relies on the state of collaborating
services.
D. It is a unit of work in a registry that is available upon receipt of a SOAP message.
21. Which statement is true about the SOA Service Model?
A. It enables consumers to interact with services independent of service implementations.
B. It reflects the platform-specific view of the services.
C. It implements the complete Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements.
D. It provides the implementation for resource and platform virtualization.
22. An online shopping cart application wants to use an SOA shipment processing service from
another department. For the service consumer, which two should be the most important
concerns about the service provider during the model and assembly phases of the SOA
lifecycle? (Choose 2)
A. Platform of the service implementation
B. Invocation patterns between the services
C. Programming language of the service implementation
D. Messaging data formats
E. XSLT used by the service for transformation
23. A bank has individual services that perform specific tasks such as security, account
verification, balance checking etc. The bank wants to create another service that can help
perform all these tasks in a single interface. The new service falls into which service category?
A. Composite service
B. Hybrid service
C. Utility service
D. Wrapper service
24. Which role would typically create message flows, mediations, and transformations on the
enterprise service bus (ESB)?
A. The Service Developer
B. The Interoperability Deployer
C. The Services Governor
D. The Integration Specialist
25. In an SOA, what provides all the inter-connectivity capabilities required to leverage and use
services implemented across the entire architecture?
A. Web services
B. Java Messaging Services (JMS)
C. Services integration platform
D. Enterprise service bus (ESB)
26. What allows a service to be independent of the platform, language, or logic?
A. A universal repository
B. The service registry
C. Componetization
D. The service broker
E. An interface
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
B. Having application-neutral interfaces
C. Fostering a culture of reuse within ones development teams
D. Having business services re-implemented as web services
E. Having immediate Return-On-Investment (ROI) for almost all projects
F. Adapting the latest distributed technologies and tools
44. Which three factors affect the readiness for SOA? (Choose 3)
A. The maturity of SOA technology
B. Businesses have changed at such an unprecedented rate that skills and cultural adaptability
fell short
C. SOA solves all technical and business problems
D. SOA is, in part, a marketing slogan, a set of slides and quick fixes that can be applied
E. SOA alleviates the need for prioritizing investment opportunities
F. There is a fundamental shift in the way businesses will be required to adapt and change
45. Which business issue most accurately describes the foundation from which all else in SOA
can be built?
A. An abstraction layer between business processes and the services that are provided
B. An active working covenant between IT and business groups
C. The changing business and IT roles when moving towards SOA
D. Business management needing to know the details of how an application is built
46. Which SOA entry point most accurately matches the following sentence? "Start building a
view of key business processes by aggregating information to help people make better
decisions."
A. People
B. Process
C. Connectivity
D. Information
47. Which adoption strategy is considered to be invalid when implementing an SOA?
A. Making a business case for the adoption of the architecture
B. Validating available technologies
C. Selecting a business pilot and enabling a line-of-business
D. A big-bang approach
E. A progressive adoption strategy
48. How does SOA justify investment in IT resources?
A. By focusing on technical operations
B. By focusing on more complex and richly featured technologies
C. By deploying a diversity of methods and approaches to solve technical issues
D. By closer alignment of IT to business services
49. An SOA compliant business needs to add new and enhanced implementation to its existing
service while providing backward compatibility. What is the most effective way to support the
existing and new service consumers transparently?
A. Add a new service operation to the existing service interface
B. Create a new interface for the new service with the same namespace
C. Create a new interface for the new service with a new namespace
D. Use mediation services with necessary versioning
50. What is a valid IT challenge in adopting and managing SOA for providing enterprise-wide
business services?
A. Choosing open standards for service transport
B. Designing appropriate granularity of service compositions
C. Minimizing impact to consumers due to platform changes
D. Content-based routing of services
51. What is considered a barrier to the adoption of SOA?
A. Time spent justifying the business value of SOA
B. Leveraging an enterprise roadmap for introducing SOA into an enterprise
C. A low expectation of SOA reusability and control
D. A focus on the non-functional requirements of an SOA deployment, such as security and
performance
52. Which two factors have a positive impact on becoming ready for SOA? (Choose 2)
A. A single platform environment
B. Limiting the amount of change in the organization
C. A clear separation of function which bounds the scope of the component service
D. Services decomposed to the right level
E. Not using the Internet as a communication channel
53. Which two are benefits of aligning IT strategy with business strategy? (Choose 2)
A. Breaking down proprietary barriers by enforcing the use of standards
B. Saving time, money, and effort through reuse of components
C. Recoding all software to reflect business services
D. Homogenizing the IT environment to promote faster integration
E. Clearer justification of IT investments through closer association of IT to business services
54. Which three are barriers to the adoption of SOA? (Choose 3)
A. Business and IT are not always aligned
B. The perception that it seems too difficult to do the job properly
C. The company is focused on the incremental delivery of services
D. The value proposition of SOA has been fully communicated
E. The business requirements are not fully understood
F. The Return-On-Investment (ROI) is immediate
55. An insurance company wants to outsource the claims adjustment process to third party
claims adjusters working as independent agents. The adjustment process typically consists of
manual activities, such as inspecting or photographing damage, as well as automated activities,
such as requesting credit or fraud reports. Given this scenario, which of the following options is
the best way to proceed?
A. Design a business process layer and a supporting component layer. Implement both layers
using Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) for performance and consistency.
B. Iteratively decompose the process. Implement each composite application using Business
Process Execution Language and individual automated services using web services.
C. Iteratively decompose the process. Implement the business process layer using Message
Broker flows and the underlying component layer using Message Driven Beans.
D. Design a business process layer and a supporting component layer. Implement the business
process layer using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and the underlying
component layer using Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs).
56. Which of the following scenarios is most likely a candidate for SOA implementation?
A. A customer is encountering severe performance problems.
B. A customer has many applications with overlapping domains.
C. A customer has to implement a government-mandated regulation in six months.
D. A customer has an integrated, off-the-shelf application set running on mainframes.
57. Which of the following components is most appropriate to gather for an IT assessment in
support of an SOA project?
A. Business goals - the overall management direction for the enterprise
B. Operational Model - that defines the application components and their placement
C. Reference Architecture - a definition of a proposed SOA architecture
D. Change Cases - that describe the impact of modifications to the applications that are needed
58. Which of the following best reflects a project that would leverage SOA to align a business
issue to the IT environment in regards to improving customer satisfaction?
A. Provide more accurate and timely tracking of orders by providing order management system
access to delivery vehicles.
B. Increase reliability and scalability of the self-service web environment by migrating to a more
robust J2EE environment.
C. Improve call center productivity by providing single sign-on, portal access to order
management systems.
D. Provide a consistent customer experience through channel integration of access to the order
management systems.
