IBM C2160-669 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2160-669 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  What describes the purpose of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in an SOA?

  A. It provides separation of concerns so that each service can be managed separately.
  B. It provides a design that allows components to be changed with less impact to the consumer.
  C. It allows a service consumer to make a service request without knowing the details of the operation.
  D. It implements service functionality by integrating existing back end service functionality using routing and transformation logic.
  B. It provides a design that allows components to be changed with less impact to the consumer.

• Question 2:

  Which initiative helps achieve business agility in SOA?

  A. Pairing up the appropriate service consumers and providers.
  B. Buying prefabricated objects to quickly implement business functions.
  C. Choreographing a business process to efficiently implement the desired business functions.
  D. Designing and developing a new business process model rather than adapting an existing one.
  C. Choreographing a business process to efficiently implement the desired business functions.

• Question 3:

  Which business driver would cause a company in the healthcare industry to consider SOA?

  A. Government regulations for communication and interoperability between companies continue to change.
  B. The cost of healthcare is increasing extremely fast and SOA will bring the costs back under control.
  C. Since doctors and other medical practitioners do not understand IT, SOA can shield these roles from the underlying technology implementation.
  D. Medical providers at smaller companies that use .Net can communicate to larger parent companies that use Java through Web services interoperability.
  A. Government regulations for communication and interoperability between companies continue to change.

• Question 4:

  When starting the journey to SOA, which action should be taken first?

  A. Create a pilot project to demonstrate the value of SOA to the business.
  B. Establish a development environment for shared services that can be used across the enterprise.
  C. Obtain organizational commitment to the SOA direction at the appropriate business and IT levels.
  D. Choose the correct Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) vendor as all other artifacts in the environment will be connected to this.
  C. Obtain organizational commitment to the SOA direction at the appropriate business and IT levels.

• Question 5:

  What describes a task within a modeled business process?

  A. The description of steps required to complete a unit of work
  B. Each task represents a work item performed by a system or human
  C. The transition that takes place for the business process to continue
  D. When a human completes a task it is marked complete allowing the process to proceed
  B. Each task represents a work item performed by a system or human

• Question 6:

  A company has implemented a number of business processes using SOA services.

  How do they determine if their new processes are helping the organization to achieve its business objectives?

  A. They establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) to monitor and report on the SOA services performance.
  B. They contact a third party to analyze and evaluate the new processes against the business objectives.
  C. They set and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track performance against the business objectives.
  D. They model the new processes in a business model simulator to identify bottlenecks and potential performance issues.
  C. They set and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track performance against the business objectives.

• Question 7:

  A dealer in rare and antique books is interested in streamlining their business process. Bottlenecks occur when dealing with inventory and shipping functions in the process.

  How can the dealer optimize this process?

  A. Create a new application to deal with the bottlenecks.
  B. Replace legacy systems with more advanced technology.
  C. Automate the manual steps so that the process is easier to monitor.
  D. Provide multiple paths through the process for some of the functions.
  D. Provide multiple paths through the process for some of the functions.

• Question 8:

  Which factor could positively impact the readiness for and success of SOA?

  A. A high level of understanding of the value of SOA
  B. The use of specialized line of business applications
  C. Informal build and deployment processes for services
  D. The use of in-house developed messaging as part of their Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  A. A high level of understanding of the value of SOA

• Question 9:

  Why is business and IT alignment so important to SOA?

  A. Applications can be rewritten to suit the needs of the business.
  B. It allows for a significant investment in technology and hardware.
  C. Business and IT can collectively fulfill the business needs and goals.
  D. Business and IT can decide which vendors to use and which business functions to outsource.
  C. Business and IT can collectively fulfill the business needs and goals.

• Question 10:

  Which three statements describe services within a SOA?

  A. Services are written in Java or C#.
  B. Services are compatible across technologies.
  C. Services can change location without affecting clients.
  D. Services provide an interface according to a SOAP file.
  E. Services can be stopped without disruption to the consumer.
  F. Service implementations can be changed without changing the consumers.
  B. Services are compatible across technologies.
  C. Services can change location without affecting clients.
  F. Service implementations can be changed without changing the consumers.