IBM C2160-667 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2160-667 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 101:

  A large bank has decided to use an SOA as the technical foundation of their customer insight initiative. The SOA Designer has selected the IBM SOA Solution Stack (Logical Reference Model) to support this initiative as shown in the Exhibit.

  

  How does the SOA Designer rationalize this choice?

  A. It provides an implementation of business intelligence services.
  B. It is a strictly layered architecture in which a set of functional layers collaborate via the SOA Infrastructure to deliver business value.
  C. It provides a layered architecture to relate business processes to business data.
  D. It provides a banking data warehouse component that implements the IBM Information FrameWork (IFW).
  C. It provides a layered architecture to relate business processes to business data.

• Question 102:

  A customer wants to create a View Statement Service. Data is stored in VSAM files on System z and the files can be large. The data is archived quarterly, so retrieval time can be significant. Furthermore, the legal view format can change over

  time.

  How should the SOA Foundation be utilized to implement the View Statement Service?

  A. Interaction Services to Access Services via Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  B. Process Services with JCA to CICS/VSAM
  C. Business Application Services to Access Services via ESB
  D. Business Application Services with JCA to CICS/VSAM
  C. Business Application Services to Access Services via ESB

• Question 103:

  A company is evaluating how to implement single sign-on authentication in an HTTP-based environment. The goal is to allow them as service provider A to redirect to an outside service provider B and pass along information that proves the

  user is already authenticated.

  Which specification most accurately addresses the requirement?

  A. WS-Trust
  B. WS-Security
  C. WS-Federation
  D. WS-Token
  C. WS-Federation

• Question 104:

  A credit check company wants to enter the Software as a Service (SaaS) market with their primary application on a global scale. The current application is entirely mainframe based. The SOA solution is required to offer the same functionality

  and Quality of Service (QoS) for the existing internal users as well as the new external users.

  Which design pattern or patterns should be used?

  A. Self-Service pattern
  B. Extended Enterprise pattern
  C. Zoned Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Collaboration patterns
  D. Self-Service and Exposed ESB Gateway patterns
  D. Self-Service and Exposed ESB Gateway patterns

• Question 105:

  As part of an SOA initiative, a utility company is re-writing a 2-tier call center application used for reporting power outages. Customers call in to report power outages and in some cases ask to be notified when the problem is fixed. The call

  center application is tightly coupled with a vendor- developed power management application which dispatches workers for repairs. The current call center application is difficult to maintain since it implements a very large and complex

  framework to manage the calls and the relationship with the power management system.

  Which design approach should the SOA Designer use?

  A. Expose the API of the existing application framework as a collection of services.
  B. Enhance the existing application framework with a portal to provide integration at the glass.
  C. Ask the power management software vendor to create Web services access.
  D. Replace the existing application framework with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and an adapter to the power management system.
  D. Replace the existing application framework with an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and an adapter to the power management system.