IBM C2160-667 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2160-667 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 91:

  An IT organization for a company has a mature management environment and follows the ITIL standards. They use WebSphere Process Server for business processes. The systems are performing as required but the business processes are not meeting executive management's expectations. What should the SOA Designer recommend for this environment?

  A. Use WebSphere Business Monitor to monitor the business KPIs
  B. Use WebSphere BusinessEvents to correlate the events
  C. Use Tivoli Composite Application Managerfor SOA to monitor the services
  D. Use Tivoli Business Systems Manager to monitor the resources in the business processes
  A. Use WebSphere Business Monitor to monitor the business KPIs

• Question 92:

  A large medical practice is receiving complaints from patients that when they make data changes. Some correspondence is being properly updated but other correspondence is not. The medical practice is implementing an SOA assessment

  and analysis.

  Which approach will most likely resolve this situation?

  A. Provide access to patients so they can update their data online.
  B. Increase information integrity by providing information as a service.
  C. Adopt new business models that allow for maximum reuse of existing data.
  D. Identify inconsistencies between the various processes for updating information.
  B. Increase information integrity by providing information as a service.

• Question 93:

  The agents of a financial clearing house use several applications that reside in CICS, an application server and a customer management system developed in-house. These applications all provide their own interaction services using different

  protocols and UIs.

  Which pattern is the most appropriate for an SOA implementation?

  A. Wrap application functionality as information services and present using Java Server Faces.
  B. Create an AJAX front end which uses REST calls to access the back end APIs.
  C. Expose the application functionality as services and create a portal for a unified UI.
  D. Use a Web services gateway to access the existing systems and integrate the information by creating a consistent Web 2.0-based user interface.
  C. Expose the application functionality as services and create a portal for a unified UI.

• Question 94:

  Why is it necessary to enforce policies and monitor services within SOA Services Management?

  A. To insure data integrity and correlate business processes
  B. To trace transactions and diagnose problems
  C. To collect key performance metrics
  D. To ensure service availability
  D. To ensure service availability

• Question 95:

  A manufacturing company can receive many customer orders at once. When an order is received, the OrderProcessing business process allocates a unique order number, updates the Customer service and invokes the Credit service. The

  process does not continue until the Credit service notifies it that the customer's details are valid, and this can take some time.

  Since multiple instances of the OrderProcessing process can exist at runtime, how can a specific instance be selected when the Credit service is ready to send notification?

  A. By creating a correlation set that includes the order number and customer ID
  B. By specifying a required user input when the process executes
  C. By creating a qualified identifier that includes the customer number
  D. By implementing a parallel activity as part of the OrderProcessing flow
  A. By creating a correlation set that includes the order number and customer ID

• Question 96:

  A bank has extended their corporate investment banking division to include individual consumer investment accounts. For a variety of reasons there was not a tight coupling of the bank's retail banking division to the new individual investment

  accounts. Therefore each division has different schemas for consumers and accounts. As part of an SOA initiative around customer insight, the bank now wants to cross-sell accounts across these two divisions.

  Which approach should the SOA Designer use to provide a single, unified and trusted view of customer data across these divisions?

  A. Use data replication to provide consolidated customer data to both divisions.
  B. Use Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) to build a data warehouse of consolidated customer data.
  C. Use Master Data Management (MDM) to create a common customer data model.
  D. Use Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to bridge the two divisions.
  C. Use Master Data Management (MDM) to create a common customer data model.

• Question 97:

  A company is implementing a new Web service within an SOA. The service will provide the ability to access customer details as part of a number of high-volume business processes. Which key quality assurance activity is needed as part of the Deploy phase of the SOA lifecycle?

  A. Assessment of existing services that are part of the same business processes.
  B. Modification of the service to match the defined business requirements if necessary.
  C. Testing to ensure that the service meets performance targets for the business processes.
  D. Tracking the service in the service registry.
  C. Testing to ensure that the service meets performance targets for the business processes.

• Question 98:

  A large multi-national bank is using SOA to transform their payment system to support new business models such as cross border treasury functions. The current system is a complex mix of payment types and rules used in each country, interacting with a variety of services to complete a payment. Which portion of the SOA Foundation is central to the transformation of this system?

  A. Partner Services
  B. Process Services
  C. Interaction Services
  D. Information Services
  E. Access Services
  B. Process Services

• Question 99:

  Which statement is true about the illustrated SOA domain shown in the Exhibit?

  

  A. The architecture illustrates the proper treatment of information in an SOA.
  B. The information architecture could be improved but the performance impacts would be prohibitive.
  C. The service/component developers are closer to the data requirements and should be given the autonomy to implement them.
  D. Another layer of information services should be inserted between the illustrated services and the information stores.
  D. Another layer of information services should be inserted between the illustrated services and the information stores.

• Question 100:

  A retail bank executive wants the IT department to re-implement current bank teller applications as an SOA. The executive wants to be in production in one year and asks an SOA Designer to instruct IT on how to accomplish this. What should the SOA Designer recommend to the executive?

  A. Analyze existing capabilities to identify services, then port them to service components and deploy them over the year.
  B. Establish a governance team with both business and IT to manage the alignment of processes and services, their development, incremental delivery, and maintenance.
  C. It will be faster for IT to buy a commercial package that is Web services enabled. Bank teller operations are standard in the industry. Add custom services later.
  D. Wrap current application interfaces in Web services with a portal front end. Use an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to share application data. Once done, IT can redesign the applications without risk to operations.
  B. Establish a governance team with both business and IT to manage the alignment of processes and services, their development, incremental delivery, and maintenance.