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

Service-oriented computing aims to reduce the burden of IT upon the organization as a whole by reducing waste, operational cost, and overhead associated with the governance and evolution of the IT enterprise.  Select the correct answer

Project Team A delivers Domain Service Inventory A with 20 services. If Project Team B delivers Domain Service Inventory B with 50 services, how many services are in the Enterprise Service Inventory?

A service can be a service consumer.  Select the correct answer.

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following statements is true?

From an organizational impact perspective, SOA initiatives can introduce:    SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

When you establish a federated service layer, you end up creating:

The goals of service-oriented computing are focused on tactical (short-term) benefits, as opposed to strategic (long-term) benefits.  Select the correct answer.

Project Team Alpha delivers Service A for Solution 1. Project Team Beta delivers Service B for Solution 2. Some time later, Project Team Omega wants to reuse Service A and Service B for its new Solution 3. How would Services A and B need to have been designed in order for Project Team Omega to successfully reuse these services without having to resort to a major integration project?

To qualify as a service composition, at least __________ participating services need to be present. Otherwise, the service interaction only represents a point-to-point exchange.

Services are ideally designed to be:

A service inventory is considered to have normalized services when:

Which of the following statements is true?

The use of __________ services tends to __________ the size of service compositions.

The ROI (return on investment) potential of services is increased by:

Which of the following statements is false?

Which of the following is not the result of achieving the strategic goal of Reduced IT Burden?

Four IT managers from different organizations have chosen to adopt SOA. When subsequently interviewed, each was asked to explain why this decision was made. One of the IT managers is confused and chose to adopt SOA for the wrong reasons. Study the following responses and select the one that is not accurate:

Which of the following statements is false?

Complete the following statement with the correct sentence : "The objective of organizational agility is to dramatically reduce the time and effort required to fulfill new or changed business requirements...