IBM C2160-667 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2160-667 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  Which issue must be addressed when abstract service definitions are mapped to IT components and are deployed into a runtime environment?

  A. Review of business models and system documentation for the business process in focus
  B. Decomposition of relevant existing systems into process flows, business rules, and potentially reusable components
  C. A choice of architecture alternatives for service implementation
  D. Orchestration of the services into higher level processes
  C. A choice of architecture alternatives for service implementation

• Question 12:

  A telecom company is trying to capture the business processes that comprise their customer management and provisioning applications. Additionally, they would like to do some process analysis for the purpose of optimizing the interactions

  between these applications.

  Which tool, or tools, best fits this situation?

  A. Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
  B. Rational Software Architect and Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA
  C. WebSphere Business Modeler
  D. WebSphere Integration Developer and Tivoli Performance Viewer
  C. WebSphere Business Modeler

• Question 13:

  Service enabling a mainframe application can be non-invasive or invasive. Which scenario is a justification for invasive service enablement?

  A. Documentation of legacy code is poor or non-existent.
  B. Business logic and presentation logic are intertwined.
  C. Screen scraping is a poor option because the application is business-logic intensive.
  D. The customer has a team that is highly experienced with JCA and the legacy code.
  B. Business logic and presentation logic are intertwined.

• Question 14:

  Due to a number of recent acquisitions, an organization is reviewing common services provided by each of the acquired companies to reduce duplication. As part of this review, they discover functionally equivalent services deployed by all of the different organizations.

  Which technique provides valuable feedback from operations about which duplicate services most completely meet non-functional requirements of the service?

  A. Use business modeling tools to drive process simulations based on operational data.
  B. Use an integrated systems management console with an integrated capacity planning tool
  C. Use a business activity monitor dashboard with Service Level Agreement (SLA) templates and policies to monitor and analyze KPIs.
  D. Use the metadata and usage information from the service registry to determine service usage.
  B. Use an integrated systems management console with an integrated capacity planning tool

• Question 15:

  A retail company is faced with the challenge of quickly introducing new products involving components from multiple lines-of-business. How can adopting SOA help this company meet this challenge?

  A. By introducing an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to support services created from existing legacy application functions
  B. By optimizing interactions with business partners using Web services
  C. By monitoring retail sales activities and providing company executives with a dashboard for up- to-date KPIs
  D. By identifying services in each Line of Business (LOB) that would support new product development and marketing business processes
  D. By identifying services in each Line of Business (LOB) that would support new product development and marketing business processes

• Question 16:

  A company is implementing a new Web service to provide the ability to access customer details as part of a number of high-volume business processes within an SOA environment. During the deploy phase of the SOA lifecycle, which key quality assurance activity should occur?

  A. Tracking the service in the service registry.
  B. Assessing existing services that are part of the same business processes.
  C. Simulating the business process to find the optimum path length to ensure maximum throughput.
  D. Testing to ensure that the service meets performance targets for the business processes.
  D. Testing to ensure that the service meets performance targets for the business processes.

• Question 17:

  In an organization that is adding services and has an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the plan is to charge for the usage of those services. What should the Solution Designer recommend to capture the usage data?

  A. Add a logging feature to the service to log the individual user requests.
  B. Add logging of the messages to the ESB for post processing, insuring the user of the service is part of the logged message.
  C. Install and configure IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA to monitor the user usage.
  D. Install and configure IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager to calculate service usage fees.
  C. Install and configure IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA to monitor the user usage.

• Question 18:

  The IT organization within a large enterprise is convinced that adopting SOA would significantly improve their response time to business requests for new functionality. Which statement about SOA governance is true for this organization at this stage of its SOA adoption?

  A. The business organization must be educated and convinced that SOA governance will solve their IT operational issues.
  B. An SOA governance organization must be created to identify services and design a flexible enterprise architecture.
  C. Management of the introduction of SOA must be incorporated into their enterprise governance to be most effective.
  D. Business agility can only be achieved by introducing SOA governance at multiple levels within the enterprise organization together with executive sponsorship.
  C. Management of the introduction of SOA must be incorporated into their enterprise governance to be most effective.

• Question 19:

  An SOA Designer is collecting requirements for a global banking company's SOA project and discovers that various countries have different security encryption and privacy requirements. How should the SOA Designer handle this situation?

  A. Include multinational security encryption and privacy regulations as a nonfunctional requirement.
  B. Incorporate security software as part of the requirements.
  C. Recommend governance software as part of the requirements.
  D. Indicate the requirement to encrypt all data at every node only allowing decryption at final endpoints.
  A. Include multinational security encryption and privacy regulations as a nonfunctional requirement.

• Question 20:

  A photo printing business has a central headquarters and approximately 5000 store fronts. Their latest project involves a website where customers can print their photos at the store location of their choice. The plan is to use a service hosted at each store front and route requests to the correct store.

  Which patterns should be considered when designing this solution?

  A. Self-service, federated Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), service registry, caching
  B. Self-service, business delegate, extended enterprise, brokered ESB gateway
  C. Agent, router, exposed business services, multiple step information population
  D. Collaboration, ESB,facade, federated repository
  A. Self-service, federated Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), service registry, caching