What is a role of Web services in building an SOA?

A. To provide interoperability using XML-based messages

B. To provide an interface for human interaction using task lists

C. To provide loose coupling via remote method invocations using JAX-RPC

D. To implement the service functionality through interfaces defined in the applications' BPEL

Which initiative helps achieve business agility in SOA?

A. Pairing up the appropriate service consumers and providers.

B. Buying prefabricated objects to quickly implement business functions.

C. Choreographing a business process to efficiently implement the desired business functions.

D. Designing and developing a new business process model rather than adapting an existing one.

Which SOA architectural concept is applied as an organization combines services to perform a

business process?

A. Modularity

B. Composition

C. Encapsulation

D. Separation of concerns

What is a typical requirement in an SOA environment for determining business success?

A. Adherence to six-sigma business guidelines

B. A dashboard for reporting metrics to business analysts

C. The ability to pilot the solution in a production environment to business stakeholders

D. The capability to monitor and measure performance against business process goals

Access services represent which vital function in the IBM SOA Reference Architecture?

A. Distributed role-based access control mechanisms

B. Connectivity with existing and legacy functionality

C. Additional security at gateway points between domains

D. Services exposed across different business units or organizations

A company has prioritized their most important requirements for SOA to be the need to speed up

integration, reduce application redundancy and provide the flexibility to change service

implementations. Which type of project should be recommended?

A. Create a common metadata model that can be used for all development projects.

B. Implement an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and registry/repository as a connectivity layer in the SOA architecture.

C. Document the existing architecture, legacy systems, and interfaces. Make this available in a common repository that can be accessed by all developers.

D. Use business modeling tools to model and simulate the application development process and identify bottlenecks. Address highest priority bottlenecks that can be automated to E.

Which people, organizational or technology factors negatively impact the adoption of SOA?

A. Putting funding mechanisms in place to encourage reuse

B. Agreeing on policies for service reuse across lines of business

C. Planning to perform a complete overhaul of all business processes

D. Defining additional capabilities required, such as upgrades to the IT infrastructure

A satellite television service company is starting an SOA project to support an upcoming

advertising campaign for high-definition television service. What is the most effective way to

ensure that the business issues drive the technical implementation and achieve anticipated

Return on Investment (ROI)?

A. Create a reference model to categorize the standards, specifications and technologies to construct, deliver and exchange application components and a framework to describe,

B. Document the business requirements and expected goals. Design the business services required to fulfill these needs. Develop test cases based on these initial business

C. Document the technical design of the project and have the business analysts on the review team ensure this is meeting the business requirements. Validate at various points in

D. Create a framework for measuring the performance of major IT investments and associated assets. Build a reference model that describes and analyzes the current operational

E. Map the business requirements against this model to determine the new capabilities that are required.

What does the WS-I Basic Profile provide for an SOA?

A. Test suites for Web services interoperability

B. An implementation of interoperable Web services

C. Interoperability guidance for Web services specifications

D. A certification of interoperability for Web services engines

Which is a role of an SOA governance body?

A. Evaluating performance, availability and scalability of services

B. Defining the processes, procedures, mechanisms and organizations that guide the implementation of services

C. Performing critical evaluation and selection of the packages, software and hardware components of the architecture

D. Identifying services from a decomposition of business processes and ensuring that these services enable realization of the business goals and drivers