Question 1

Administering, maintaining, and evolving the services and service inventories that you build and own can be broadly referred to as:

Accepted Answer

A)  federated SOA ownership 
B)  SOA standardization 
C)  SOA governance 
D)  SOA enforcement 
A)  federated SOA ownership 
B)  SOA standardization 
C)  SOA governance 
D)  SOA enforcement

Question 2

Service Composition A is comprised of 4 services. Service Composition B is comprised of 6 services. Because both service compositions are comprised of services from the same service inventory, the service inventory will have a total of how many services?

Accepted Answer

A)  10 
B)  24 
C)  Based on the information provided, it's impossible to know how many services reside in the service inventory because we don't know how many other service compositions exist. 
D)  Based on the information provided, it's impossible to know how many services reside in the service inventory because the quantity of services within a service inventory is not determined by the quantity of services in service compositions. 
A)  10 
B)  24 
C)  Based on the information provided, it's impossible to know how many services reside in the service inventory because we don't know how many other service compositions exist. 
D)  Based on the information provided, it's impossible to know how many services reside in the service inventory because the quantity of services within a service inventory is not determined by the quantity of services in service compositions.

Question 3

Below are excerpts from four different SOA adoption strategy documents. Based on your understanding of SOA, service-orientation, and the goals of service-oriented computing, select the adoption strategy that is clearly the most likely to succeed:

Accepted Answer

A)  "As part of our planned transition toward service-orientation, we will continue to extend the existing legacy applications with transformation-centric middleware that will enable seamless integration and runtime conversion between the different data models and data formats used by these applications." 
B)  "Each of our existing legacy applications already establishes a domain boundary that is defined by the purpose of the application. We are confident that by leveraging these pre-defined silo-based boundaries we can create a series of effective domain service inventories, each with a scope that corresponds to a legacy application boundary." 
C)  "Our strategy fully supports the tactical (short-term) nature of service-oriented computing by de-emphasizing standardization and allowing different project teams to deliver services optimized to their respective requirements. This not only speeds the initial delivery of services, it further supports interoperability by enabling services to leverage established integration technologies." 
D)  "Our strategy is to make the consistent application of service-orientation principles a priority in order to support the attainment of the goals of service-oriented computing. The primary justification for this approach is the fact that we have identified the goals of service-oriented computing to be in alignment with our own business goals." 
A)  "As part of our planned transition toward service-orientation, we will continue to extend the existing legacy applications with transformation-centric middleware that will enable seamless integration and runtime conversion between the different data models and data formats used by these applications." 
B)  "Each of our existing legacy applications already establishes a domain boundary that is defined by the purpose of the application. We are confident that by leveraging these pre-defined silo-based boundaries we can create a series of effective domain service inventories, each with a scope that corresponds to a legacy application boundary." 
C)  "Our strategy fully supports the tactical (short-term) nature of service-oriented computing by de-emphasizing standardization and allowing different project teams to deliver services optimized to their respective requirements. This not only speeds the initial delivery of services, it further supports interoperability by enabling services to leverage established integration technologies." 
D)  "Our strategy is to make the consistent application of service-orientation principles a priority in order to support the attainment of the goals of service-oriented computing. The primary justification for this approach is the fact that we have identified the goals of service-oriented computing to be in alignment with our own business goals."

Question 4

If a service can have one or more service capabilities, then how can a service consumer interact with a service?

Accepted Answer

A)  It can't. The service must only provide one service capability in order for it to be accessible by service consumers. 
B)  Each service capability represents a function that the service has to offer. The service consumer can invoke and interact with one service capability at a time, thereby only using a subset of the service's overall functionality. 
C)  Service capabilities are designed to be composed together, which means that in order for a service consumer to interact with a service, it must be designed to invoke all of its service capabilities at the same time. 
D)  Services do not have service capabilities that are explicitly invoked. Services almost always exist as event-driven programs that transparently intercept service consumer messages at runtime. 
A)  It can't. The service must only provide one service capability in order for it to be accessible by service consumers. 
B)  Each service capability represents a function that the service has to offer. The service consumer can invoke and interact with one service capability at a time, thereby only using a subset of the service's overall functionality. 
C)  Service capabilities are designed to be composed together, which means that in order for a service consumer to interact with a service, it must be designed to invoke all of its service capabilities at the same time. 
D)  Services do not have service capabilities that are explicitly invoked. Services almost always exist as event-driven programs that transparently intercept service consumer messages at runtime.

Question 5

Which of the following statements accurately describes the strategic benefit of Increased Federation?

Accepted Answer

A)  A target state whereby all services are always consistently delivered as Web services. 
B)  A target state in which the entire enterprise has been successfully service-oriented. 
C)  A target state whereby the enterprise has adopted SOA by replacing all legacy environments with custom-developed services. 
D)  A target state whereby standardized service contracts have been established to express a consistent and unified service endpoint layer. 
A)  A target state whereby all services are always consistently delivered as Web services. 
B)  A target state in which the entire enterprise has been successfully service-oriented. 
C)  A target state whereby the enterprise has adopted SOA by replacing all legacy environments with custom-developed services. 
D)  A target state whereby standardized service contracts have been established to express a consistent and unified service endpoint layer.

Question 6

Which of the following statements is false?

Accepted Answer

A)  The design standardization of service contracts helps increase interoperability between services. 
B)  Design standardization can introduce organizational and cultural challenges because it requires that the design standards be regularly enforced. 
C)  The design standardization of service contracts helps avoid the need for transformation technologies. 
D)  Design standardization is not relevant to the design of service compositions. It is only relevant to the design of individual services. 
A)  The design standardization of service contracts helps increase interoperability between services. 
B)  Design standardization can introduce organizational and cultural challenges because it requires that the design standards be regularly enforced. 
C)  The design standardization of service contracts helps avoid the need for transformation technologies. 
D)  Design standardization is not relevant to the design of service compositions. It is only relevant to the design of individual services.

Question 7

Which of the following statements are false?    SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Accepted Answer

A)  Services are delivered into service inventories and are aggregated into service compositions. 
B)  Services are delivered as service compositions that are aggregated into a set of service inventories. 
C)  Services are delivered into service compositions that are composed by service inventories. 
D)  Services are delivered as service inventories that are composed by other service inventories. 
A)  Services are delivered into service inventories and are aggregated into service compositions. 
B)  Services are delivered as service compositions that are aggregated into a set of service inventories. 
C)  Services are delivered into service compositions that are composed by service inventories. 
D)  Services are delivered as service inventories that are composed by other service inventories.

Question 8

A software program that invokes and interacts with a service is referred to as a:

Accepted Answer

A)  service contract 
B)  service inventory 
C)  service container 
D)  none of the above 
A)  service contract 
B)  service inventory 
C)  service container 
D)  none of the above

Question 9

A service consumer must exist as a service-oriented software program.  Select the correct answer.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In order to achieve __________ we have traditionally required __________ projects. With service-orientation, we aim to establish an intrinsic level of __________ within each service so as to reduce the need for __________ effort.

Accepted Answer

A)  vendor diversity, integration, vendor diversity, design 
B)  agility, development, scalability, development 
C)  interoperability, integration, interoperability, integration 
D)  autonomy, integration, statelessness, integration 
A)  vendor diversity, integration, vendor diversity, design 
B)  agility, development, scalability, development 
C)  interoperability, integration, interoperability, integration 
D)  autonomy, integration, statelessness, integration

Question 11

Which of the following statements are true?    SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Accepted Answer

A)  A service can be comprised of one or more components. 
B)  A service inventory is comprised of a collection of services. 
C)  A service composition is comprised of a set of aggregated services. 
D)  A service-oriented solution is comprised of a set of service inventories. 
A)  A service can be comprised of one or more components. 
B)  A service inventory is comprised of a collection of services. 
C)  A service composition is comprised of a set of aggregated services. 
D)  A service-oriented solution is comprised of a set of service inventories.

Question 12

Which of the following statements is false?

Accepted Answer

A)  Service-orientation is a design paradigm that must be applied on an enterprise-wide basis in order to be successful. 
B)  Service-orientation is a design paradigm comprised of a set of design principles. 
C)  Service-orientation is an evolutionary design paradigm that has been influenced by older, established IT paradigms and platforms. 
D)  Service-orientation is applied to logic in order to create service-oriented logic. 
A)  Service-orientation is a design paradigm that must be applied on an enterprise-wide basis in order to be successful. 
B)  Service-orientation is a design paradigm comprised of a set of design principles. 
C)  Service-orientation is an evolutionary design paradigm that has been influenced by older, established IT paradigms and platforms. 
D)  Service-orientation is applied to logic in order to create service-oriented logic.

Question 13

Which of the following statements is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Organizational agility can be viewed as the ability of IT to rapidly produce new legacy applications on-demand. 
B)  Organizational agility can be viewed as a state whereby the organization increases its responsiveness with the support of a more agile IT enterprise. 
C)  Organizational agility can be viewed as a tactical benefit that empowers the organization to respond to new business requirements by building new applications from scratch each time. 
D)  Organizational agility can be viewed as the ability of IT project managers to rapidly replace slow performing programmers without jeopardizing project delivery schedules. 
A)  Organizational agility can be viewed as the ability of IT to rapidly produce new legacy applications on-demand. 
B)  Organizational agility can be viewed as a state whereby the organization increases its responsiveness with the support of a more agile IT enterprise. 
C)  Organizational agility can be viewed as a tactical benefit that empowers the organization to respond to new business requirements by building new applications from scratch each time. 
D)  Organizational agility can be viewed as the ability of IT project managers to rapidly replace slow performing programmers without jeopardizing project delivery schedules.

Question 14

Which of the following statements is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  To apply service-orientation requires the use of Web services. 
B)  Web services are required in order to build service-oriented solutions. 
C)  When discussing SOA and service-oriented computing, the term "Web service" must always be synonymous with (have the same meaning as) the term "service". 
D)  None of these statements are true. 
A)  To apply service-orientation requires the use of Web services. 
B)  Web services are required in order to build service-oriented solutions. 
C)  When discussing SOA and service-oriented computing, the term "Web service" must always be synonymous with (have the same meaning as) the term "service". 
D)  None of these statements are true.

Question 15

Which of the following statements is false?

Accepted Answer

A)  A service is a unit of logic to which service-orientation has been applied to a meaningful extent. 
B)  Services are designed to increase the need for integration. 
C)  Services are the fundamental building blocks of service-oriented solutions. 
D)  A service composition is comprised of services. 
A)  A service is a unit of logic to which service-orientation has been applied to a meaningful extent. 
B)  Services are designed to increase the need for integration. 
C)  Services are the fundamental building blocks of service-oriented solutions. 
D)  A service composition is comprised of services.

Question 16

I built a service-oriented solution a year ago comprised of 3 services. I've just been told that the business process automated by the solution is going to be replaced by a new business process that introduces some changes to how the business process logic needs to be automated. What should I do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Replace the solution with a brand new service-oriented solution comprised of new services designed specifically to automate the new business process. 
B)  Identify the services within the solution that are no longer relevant to the new business process and permanently retire them so that no other service-oriented solution inadvertently uses them. 
C)  Assuming there is an established service inventory in place, attempt to locate any existing services that can provide the logic required to automate the new business process and then change how the services within the solution need to be composed, as required. 
D)  Due to the fact that service-oriented solutions are inherently unable to adapt to business process change, you should investigate for how long you can continue to use your current solution. Even if it does not exactly provide the functionality required by the new business process, it is still likely to automate a subset of the new business process logic, thereby providing you with an opportunity to continue to get some value from the solution before you are forced to retire it. 
A)  Replace the solution with a brand new service-oriented solution comprised of new services designed specifically to automate the new business process. 
B)  Identify the services within the solution that are no longer relevant to the new business process and permanently retire them so that no other service-oriented solution inadvertently uses them. 
C)  Assuming there is an established service inventory in place, attempt to locate any existing services that can provide the logic required to automate the new business process and then change how the services within the solution need to be composed, as required. 
D)  Due to the fact that service-oriented solutions are inherently unable to adapt to business process change, you should investigate for how long you can continue to use your current solution. Even if it does not exactly provide the functionality required by the new business process, it is still likely to automate a subset of the new business process logic, thereby providing you with an opportunity to continue to get some value from the solution before you are forced to retire it.

Question 17

A part of a service contract that is commonly standardized is the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  data model 
B)  service agent 
C)  service registry 
D)  data agent 
A)  data model 
B)  service agent 
C)  service registry 
D)  data agent

Question 18

When migrating to a service-oriented computing platform you are working toward achieving a specific target environment. Which of the following statements about this target environment are true?    SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Accepted Answer

A)  In this target environment, services establish a federated endpoint layer. 
B)  In this target environment, services are naturally interoperable and composable. 
C)  In this target environment, business logic is accurately expressed through services as a result of collaboration between business analysts and technology experts. 
D)  This target environment helps the organization itself gain greater value from IT, because IT imposes less of a burden on the organization." 
A)  In this target environment, services establish a federated endpoint layer. 
B)  In this target environment, services are naturally interoperable and composable. 
C)  In this target environment, business logic is accurately expressed through services as a result of collaboration between business analysts and technology experts. 
D)  This target environment helps the organization itself gain greater value from IT, because IT imposes less of a burden on the organization."

Question 19

A service can be designed to access or invoke:    SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

Accepted Answer

A)  a database 
B)  a distributed application 
C)  a legacy system or resource 
D)  other services 
A)  a database 
B)  a distributed application 
C)  a legacy system or resource 
D)  other services

Question 20

Solution logic is classified as "service-oriented" after:

Accepted Answer

A)  it has been built using Web services 
B)  it has been built using RPC technologies 
C)  it has been performance tested to a meaningful extent 
D)  service-orientation has been applied to a meaningful extent 
A)  it has been built using Web services 
B)  it has been built using RPC technologies 
C)  it has been performance tested to a meaningful extent 
D)  service-orientation has been applied to a meaningful extent

Administering, maintaining, and evolving the services and service inventories that you build and own can be broadly referred to as:

Service Composition A is comprised of 4 services. Service Composition B is comprised of 6 services. Because both service compositions are comprised of services from the same service inventory, the service inventory will have a total of how many services?

Below are excerpts from four different SOA adoption strategy documents. Based on your understanding of SOA, service-orientation, and the goals of service-oriented computing, select the adoption strategy that is clearly the most likely to succeed:

If a service can have one or more service capabilities, then how can a service consumer interact with a service?

Which of the following statements accurately describes the strategic benefit of Increased Federation?

Which of the following statements is false?

Which of the following statements are false? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

A software program that invokes and interacts with a service is referred to as a:

A service consumer must exist as a service-oriented software program. Select the correct answer.

In order to achieve we have traditionally required projects. With service-orientation, we aim to establish an intrinsic level of within each service so as to reduce the need for effort.

Which of the following statements are true? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Which of the following statements is false?

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following statements is false?

I built a service-oriented solution a year ago comprised of 3 services. I've just been told that the business process automated by the solution is going to be replaced by a new business process that introduces some changes to how the business process logic needs to be automated. What should I do?

A part of a service contract that is commonly standardized is the __________.

When migrating to a service-oriented computing platform you are working toward achieving a specific target environment. Which of the following statements about this target environment are true? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

A service can be designed to access or invoke: SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

Solution logic is classified as "service-oriented" after:

SOA Technology Concepts (S90-02A)

SOA Design & Architecture (S90-03A)

Advanced SOA Design & Architecture (S90-08A)

SOA Design & Architecture Lab (S90-09A)

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Exam 1: Fundamental SOA & Service-Oriented Computing (S90-01A)

Administering, maintaining, and evolving the services and service inventories that you build and own can be broadly referred to as:

Service Composition A is comprised of 4 services. Service Composition B is comprised of 6 services. Because both service compositions are comprised of services from the same service inventory, the service inventory will have a total of how many services?

Below are excerpts from four different SOA adoption strategy documents. Based on your understanding of SOA, service-orientation, and the goals of service-oriented computing, select the adoption strategy that is clearly the most likely to succeed:

If a service can have one or more service capabilities, then how can a service consumer interact with a service?

Which of the following statements accurately describes the strategic benefit of Increased Federation?

Which of the following statements is false?

Which of the following statements are false? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

A software program that invokes and interacts with a service is referred to as a:

A service consumer must exist as a service-oriented software program. Select the correct answer.

In order to achieve __________ we have traditionally required __________ projects. With service-orientation, we aim to establish an intrinsic level of __________ within each service so as to reduce the need for __________ effort.

Which of the following statements are true? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Which of the following statements is false?

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following statements is false?

I built a service-oriented solution a year ago comprised of 3 services. I've just been told that the business process automated by the solution is going to be replaced by a new business process that introduces some changes to how the business process logic needs to be automated. What should I do?

A part of a service contract that is commonly standardized is the __________.

When migrating to a service-oriented computing platform you are working toward achieving a specific target environment. Which of the following statements about this target environment are true? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

A service can be designed to access or invoke: SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

Solution logic is classified as "service-oriented" after:

SOA Technology Concepts (S90-02A)

SOA Design & Architecture (S90-03A)

Advanced SOA Design & Architecture (S90-08A)

SOA Design & Architecture Lab (S90-09A)

Filters

In order to achieve we have traditionally required projects. With service-orientation, we aim to establish an intrinsic level of within each service so as to reduce the need for effort.