Question 1

The Universal SOA Commission (USOAC) has been standardizing the service-oriented architectural model since 1998. Their role is to regulate the marketplace to ensure that all usages of the "SOA" acronym for branding purposes are legitimate. They enforce this via product assessment and certification, a process that all of the major software vendors follow to obtain official USOAC certification.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Services can be referred to as __________ because of the enterprise-centric design considerations of service-orientation and SOA.

Accepted Answer

A)  enterprise architectures 
B)  enterprise resources 
C)  enterprise definitions 
D)  enterprise-centric business models

Question 3

When planning a transition toward SOA, we are usually required to balance the __________ goals with the __________ requirements.

Accepted Answer

A)  strategic (long-term), tactical (short-term) 
B)  strategic (long-term), unimportant (low priority) 
C)  tactical (short-term), unimportant (low priority) 
D)  unimportant (low priority), important (high priority)

Question 4

Which of the following is a recommended or common part of a service-oriented enterprise?

Accepted Answer

A)  business services 
B)  service registries 
C)  service contracts 
D)  all of the above

Question 5

I anticipate building larger service compositions comprised of more services. How will this likely affect performance and infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

A)  It will likely increase performance demands and require an increase in infrastructure investment. 
B)  It will likely reduce performance demands and require an increase in infrastructure investment. 
C)  It will likely increase performance demands and require a reduction in infrastructure investment. 
D)  It will not affect performance or infrastructure.

Question 6

A fundamental means of achieving business and technology alignment in support of service-oriented computing is:

Accepted Answer

A)  through the use of a service registry because this allows business and technology-centric services to be located in the same place 
B)  through the creation of business services because this enables services to encapsulate and express business logic 
C)  through the use of a business registry because this allows for the centralized registration of business analysts 
D)  through the creation of a vendor-specific architecture because this supports both the vendor-neutral and business-driven SOA characteristics

Question 7

Service composition is important to the success of SOA initiatives because:

Accepted Answer

A)  You can only create service-oriented solutions as service compositions. 
B)  Services that compose multiple legacy systems can be designed to leverage only the parts of each system that are relevant to the functional context of the service. 
C)  Service compositions enable the service-oriented computing goal of Increased Federation by guaranteeing that service endpoints are consistently designed and developed. 
D)  Services that can be composed and recomposed support several service-oriented computing goals, including Increased ROI and Increased Organizational Agility.

Question 8

Non-agnostic solution logic is logic that is considered single-purpose because it is unique to a specific task, and therefore not useful to other tasks.  Select the correct answer.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

XML and XML Schema are examples of:

Accepted Answer

A)  custom design standards commonly used by service-oriented solutions 
B)  custom design characteristics commonly found in service-oriented solutions 
C)  industry standards commonly used by service-oriented solutions 
D)  industry characteristics commonly found in service-oriented solutions

Question 10

A service-oriented solution can be comprised of a single service with a single service capability.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

There can be different types or scopes of service-oriented architecture. For example, you could define separate architecture specifications for a service and a service inventory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Service-oriented analysis and service-oriented design are typical phases of an SOA delivery lifecycle.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Service-oriented computing aims to increase an organization's responsiveness by allowing it to adapt to change more efficiently and effectively. This is known as:

Accepted Answer

A)  organizational diversity 
B)  organizational agility 
C)  organizational federation 
D)  organizational interoperability

Question 14

__________ and __________ are used to classify and organize services within a service inventory.

Accepted Answer

A)  service compositions, service-oriented solutions 
B)  service capabilities, service compositions 
C)  service models, service layers 
D)  service contracts, service capabilities

Question 15

Which of the following SOA myths are false?    SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Accepted Answer

A)  "An application is considered service-oriented if it uses Web services." 
B)  "It is required that you stick with a single SOA vendor platform in order to successfully achieve the strategic goals of service-oriented computing." 
C)  "SOA projects always require enterprise-wide standardization and enterprise-wide global data models." 
D)  "The successful adoption of SOA will help an organization become more agile and responsive."

Question 16

Below are four statements about business and technology alignment, as it pertains to service-oriented computing. Which of these statements is false?

Accepted Answer

A)  Business and technology alignment represents the extent to which an IT enterprise and its automated systems can mirror and evolve in alignment with the business. 
B)  Service-oriented computing promotes the abstraction and accurate encapsulation and expression of business logic in services. This supports business and technology alignment. 
C)  The pursuit of business and technology alignment can be supported by the collaboration of business analysts and technology experts during analysis and modeling phases. 
D)  In order for an IT enterprise to increase business and technology alignment, its business analysts must become more technical and assume the responsibilities of technology experts so that they can independently design quality business services that take both business and technology considerations into account.

Question 17

Service-orientation supports the realization of the strategic goals associated with service-oriented computing.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

A __________ can be part of a/an __________ which can be assembled from __________ within a/an __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  component, object, enterprises, service 
B)  service inventory, service, enterprises, service composition 
C)  service, service composition, services, service inventory 
D)  service inventory, service, service compositions, enterprise

Question 19

When an organization cannot implement a single enterprise service inventory, it has the option to organize collections of services into multiple service inventories referred to as __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  domain service inventories 
B)  sub-inventories 
C)  sectional service inventories 
D)  service inventory subsets

Question 20

Service-oriented computing advocates a concept based on the creation of a service layer with standardized and unified endpoints (service contracts) while allowing individual service implementations to remain disparate and independently governed. This concept is known as:

Accepted Answer

A)  interoperability 
B)  transformation 
C)  federation 
D)  isolation

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

Services can be referred to as __________ because of the enterprise-centric design considerations of service-orientation and SOA.

When planning a transition toward SOA, we are usually required to balance the goals with the requirements.

Which of the following is a recommended or common part of a service-oriented enterprise?

I anticipate building larger service compositions comprised of more services. How will this likely affect performance and infrastructure?

A fundamental means of achieving business and technology alignment in support of service-oriented computing is:

Service composition is important to the success of SOA initiatives because:

Non-agnostic solution logic is logic that is considered single-purpose because it is unique to a specific task, and therefore not useful to other tasks. Select the correct answer.

XML and XML Schema are examples of:

A service-oriented solution can be comprised of a single service with a single service capability.

There can be different types or scopes of service-oriented architecture. For example, you could define separate architecture specifications for a service and a service inventory.

Service-oriented analysis and service-oriented design are typical phases of an SOA delivery lifecycle.

Service-oriented computing aims to increase an organization's responsiveness by allowing it to adapt to change more efficiently and effectively. This is known as:

and are used to classify and organize services within a service inventory.

Which of the following SOA myths are false? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

Below are four statements about business and technology alignment, as it pertains to service-oriented computing. Which of these statements is false?

Service-orientation supports the realization of the strategic goals associated with service-oriented computing.

A can be part of a/an which can be assembled from within a/an .

When an organization cannot implement a single enterprise service inventory, it has the option to organize collections of services into multiple service inventories referred to as __________.

Service-oriented computing advocates a concept based on the creation of a service layer with standardized and unified endpoints (service contracts) while allowing individual service implementations to remain disparate and independently governed. This concept is known as: