IBM C2160-667 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2160-667 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  A company has started an ambitious SOA project as part of an enterprise modernization initiative. The SOA Designer has determined that their mainframe-based portfolio is a tightly coupled set of applications owned by different IT

  organizations. In addition, the SOA executive sponsor is concerned that their mainframe portfolio and skill base will make the transition to SOA difficult.

  What should the SOA Designer do?

  A. Deploy an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as a means for decoupling the applications and isolating organizational issues.
  B. Develop a detailed education roadmap for the application owners, developers and operations staff to ensure success.
  C. Suggest a pilot project to re-engineer one of the mainframe applications to use J2EE and SOAP on Unix to help develop SOA skills.
  D. Propose a Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) assessment to identify any potential organizational issues or skill mismatches in the project staff.
  D. Propose a Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) assessment to identify any potential organizational issues or skill mismatches in the project staff.

• Question 32:

  An SOA Solution Designer's recommendation for a financial institution is to use a separate gateway and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) component. The decision considered a number of factors including the organizations current IT

  environment, staff skills, and non-functional requirements. However, the client has investigated using a more powerful single SOA appliance as a gateway and ESB to save money.

  Which action should be taken?

  A. Make sure that the gateway can scale to the combined non-functional requirements of the ESB and gateway components.
  B. Suggest that they use multiple security domains for each of the component implementations.
  C. Suggest the client reconsider the impact of combining the gateway and ESB functionality on the same physical hardware.
  D. Implement the customer's suggestions and build the ESB into the gateway.
  C. Suggest the client reconsider the impact of combining the gateway and ESB functionality on the same physical hardware.

• Question 33:

  An organization with a strong background in J2EE development and excellent IT governance is starting its first SOA project.

  Using the Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) as a guide, which action should they take to extend their object oriented modeling capability to increase their chance of success with this SOA project?

  A. Focus on creating services rather than objects resulting in a shift to the services level in the application dimension.
  B. Adopt SOMA or an equivalent SOA method to increase the organization's capability in the methodology dimension.
  C. Deploy an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to begin to move them along the infrastructure dimension from enterprise standard to common SOA environment.
  D. Introduce a reference architecture to shift them from component architecture to SOA in the architecture dimension.
  E. Introduce the use of the service modeling profile in Rational Software Architect (RSA) or equivalent.
  B. Adopt SOMA or an equivalent SOA method to increase the organization's capability in the methodology dimension.

• Question 34:

  A Fortune 100 company is migrating its Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) architecture to SOA. The intent is to begin exposing its capabilities to business partners. The CIO is thinking about building a high speed, custom messaging solution so there is capacity for future growth. What should the SOA Designer say about the long-term implications of that direction?

  A. A custom messaging solution could provide performance advantages if development priority is allocated to provide standards-based connectors and adapters for business partners to connect.
  B. XML messages can be transformed at wire speed using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) appliances like WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance, so it is not necessary to be concerned with that part of the system's performance.
  C. Total cost of ownership will increase with custom middleware. Open standards-based commercial messaging products are more interoperable, extensible, scalable, replaceable, and reliable than custom- built systems.
  D. It will take a serious commitment to detailed technical support to make this happen. It is always a tradeoff between standards-based compliance and performance. The implementation of the custom messaging will need to provide serious performance advantages to business partners.
  C. Total cost of ownership will increase with custom middleware. Open standards-based commercial messaging products are more interoperable, extensible, scalable, replaceable, and reliable than custom- built systems.

• Question 35:

  An organization is releasing functionality updates to portlets and new services on a daily cycle. However, code deployment is taking three days. This delay is leading to reliability and availability issues with the production environment. Apart from exploring the possibility of introducing a less aggressive release cycle, how can these issues be addressed?

  A. Suggest a plan to move to automated deployment to reduce deployment time.
  B. Introduce governance to define and enforce development standards and Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes.
  C. Examine the infrastructure and application architecture and then conduct a code review to determine the source of the delayed deployments.
  D. Introduce governance focusing on enablement of development standards and policy enforcement procedures.
  A. Suggest a plan to move to automated deployment to reduce deployment time.

• Question 36:

  A rapidly growing retail company recently outsourced their package delivery to a very reputable package delivery company. The two companies are integrated using SOA and Web services. However, the retail company is having customer satisfaction issues as the call center is not reliably calculating delivery dates. Which portion of the SOA Foundation is the focus to resolve this issue?

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

• Question 37:

  In a legacy transformation project an Architect decides to drive CICS transactions using MQ messages generated by WebSphere Message Broker using a 3270 bridge. What is the advantage of this architecture?

  A. The flow is broken into several parts which means that processing is less complex.
  B. Fewer transactions are required to achieve processing.
  C. The requesting context is already established when the response from CICS is returned.
  D. A wide variety of sources and formats can be routed and transformed as needed.
  D. A wide variety of sources and formats can be routed and transformed as needed.

• Question 38:

  A government agency has decided to use code generation to generate the portions of the services, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and consumer code that is consistent for each service. Which statement is true about this decision?

  A. Code generation allows automatic enforcement of governance policy.
  B. Code generation enforces IT and business alignment.
  C. Code generation is middleware version sensitive.
  D. Code generation provides a consistent data model.
  A. Code generation allows automatic enforcement of governance policy.

• Question 39:

  A government department is expecting a higher load on their online loan system because of an upcoming deadline. The assigned Solution Architect plans to use mediation logic to identify and route crucial loan applications to the correct

  department.

  Which key business process design factor is being addressed using this SOA solution?

  A. Quicker processing for high priority loans
  B. Providing consistent user experience under various load conditions
  C. Examining the deployment options to support runtime load balancing
  D. Using customized information services to improve customer satisfaction
  A. Quicker processing for high priority loans

• Question 40:

  The IT organization for a government information office follows ITIL best practices. They use WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) to manage the lifecycle of a service in their SOA. A mandate has been passed for the IT

  organization to manage and control the service environment, including relationships and configuration.

  Where should this new information be stored?

  A. All services and endpoint locations should be in the Service Registry and Repository.
  B. All services and endpoint locations should be in the configuration management database.
  C. Services and related configuration data should be in the Service Registry and Repository.
  D. Services and related configuration data should be in the configuration management database.
  D. Services and related configuration data should be in the configuration management database.