IBM C2160-667 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2160-667 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  A service owner has developed a new version of an address validation service at a travel company. How is the service registry and repository used to govern the new version release?

  A. Notify all registered service consumers of the new version and update the consumer relationship to the version as appropriate.
  B. Enforce n-1 version release policy and notify all service consumers.
  C. Ensure the change to the data model doesn't disable existing service consumers.
  D. Redirect consumers to the new version of the service using dynamic binding.
  A. Notify all registered service consumers of the new version and update the consumer relationship to the version as appropriate.

• Question 22:

  A large airline has decided to use SOA as a means to reduce costs through the use of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) based infrastructure. The IT strategy group has purchased sophisticated messaging middleware and prototyped some

  services related to accessing passenger information. The airline needs to decide what to do next.

  Which recommendation should be made?

  A. Move the prototype to production to assess the impact on the enterprise architecture.
  B. Identify a governance method to define policies and procedures for sharing the ESB infrastructure.
  C. Align an SOA project with a business initiative and select high-value services through process analysis.
  D. Add a process server to the infrastructure to provide a means to use the passenger information services.
  C. Align an SOA project with a business initiative and select high-value services through process analysis.

• Question 23:

  A university is receiving complaints that students can't receive grades reliably due to improper mailing addresses yet they can receive their bills on time at their correct address. During the assessment and analysis, what is the most likely business objective that can resolve this situation?

  A. Resolve inconsistencies between the two processes used for grade reporting and billing.
  B. Reduce risk with trusted information services delivered in-line and in context.
  C. Deploy new business models quickly with reusable and optimized processes to adapt the enterprise to changing requests.
  D. Provide a facility for students to update their mailing address online.
  B. Reduce risk with trusted information services delivered in-line and in context.

• Question 24:

  A small company has recently developed a set of services to provide access to customer information. They have a mature management environment following the ITIL best practices. These services are being shared across a number of

  business units. The company wants to provide appropriate chargeback for use of these services.

  What should be recommended to provide this chargeback?

  A. Use the existing service monitoring data.
  B. Measure the service usage by service consumer.
  C. Measure the service usage by using the service registry.
  D. Use the existing transaction tracking monitoring data.
  B. Measure the service usage by service consumer.

• Question 25:

  If an organization follows the ITIL best practices when considering a change to an existing service, where should they find the existing consumers of the service and the instances in use?

  A. In the operations run book
  B. In the operational architecture document
  C. In the configuration management database
  D. In the Service Registry
  C. In the configuration management database

• Question 26:

  What is the next step while architecting an SOA solution after documenting the business processes?

  A. Determine the operations required to realize each process.
  B. Select a business steward for each process and instruct the steward to identify re-usable services.
  C. Identify the services needed to realize each business process and group them into logical components.
  D. Identify core and non-core business components.
  C. Identify the services needed to realize each business process and group them into logical components.

• Question 27:

  An organization deploys new services once a week. Though the deployments occur without incident, problem determination involving these new services is initially very difficult. When there is a fault, what can be done at initial deployment to ensure faster problem determination?

  A. Introduce a change and configuration management process.
  B. Introduce governance to include monitoring configuration with service deployment.
  C. Introduce governance focusing on enablement of development standards and policy enforcement procedures.
  D. Introduce governance to define and enforce development standards and Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes.
  B. Introduce governance to include monitoring configuration with service deployment.

• Question 28:

  A company wants to integrate a number of existing best-of-breed applications by implementing service facades and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The initial scenario involves the transfer of order information between a number of these backend services depending on business rules. An SOA Designer is asked to capture the functional requirements.

  What is the most appropriate starting point?

  A. Analysis of the information requirements of the existing applications
  B. Investigation into appropriate industry standards for transferring data
  C. Creation of use cases to understand what the services may be and how they interact
  D. Define the component model associated with the existing applications and specify the service interfaces
  C. Creation of use cases to understand what the services may be and how they interact

• Question 29:

  An organization has a large investment in legacy technologies (such as CICS and IMS) supporting applications that provide their core business transactions and data access. The Solution Architect believes significant value exists in providing interoperable or open standard, service-based access to those transactions (e.g., transactions that query account balance, create orders, schedule or track deliveries, query stock levels.) Which solution pattern should be considered by an Architect for providing service-based access to legacy systems?

  A. Create a data access component for each transaction.
  B. Implement a service choreographer.
  C. Add a controlling service gateway.
  D. Implement an infrastructure with a Web services-compliant broker.
  D. Implement an infrastructure with a Web services-compliant broker.

• Question 30:

  The IBM SOA Foundation includes services that support business innovation and optimization. What should be found in an SOA solution compliant with the SOA Foundation?

  A. Automatic recognition of marketplace trends and dynamic reconfiguration of services in support
  B. Business process simulation to predict the effect that process changes might have on the business
  C. Alerts generated whenever business efficiency drops below a predefined threshold
  D. An SOA dashboard for executives showing new business opportunities categorized by Return on Investment (ROI)
  B. Business process simulation to predict the effect that process changes might have on the business