IBM C2160-669 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2160-669 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  Why is messaging important to an SOA?

  A. Messaging improves the performance of complex environments.
  B. Messaging implements separation of concerns resulting in faster development.
  C. Messaging facilitates communication between distributed heterogeneous environments.
  D. Messaging is used to communicate between a repository and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
  C. Messaging facilitates communication between distributed heterogeneous environments.

• Question 22:

  What will the IBM SOA Assessment Tool help to define?

  A. The most appropriate SOA entry point
  B. The benefits of leveraging existing applications
  C. Recommendations for moving to the highest level of SOA maturity
  D. The service funding and ownership model to increase SOA maturity
  A. The most appropriate SOA entry point

• Question 23:

  In preparing to go to SOA, which governance aspect should be implemented from the beginning?

  A. Create the SOA architecture documentation.
  B. Manage and secure services, applications and resources.
  C. Provide a framework for measuring the effectiveness of SOA.
  D. Establish the common metadata model to ensure interoperability.
  C. Provide a framework for measuring the effectiveness of SOA.

• Question 24:

  Which activity is required to successfully implement SOA governance?

  A. Establish a service repository.
  B. Acquire ongoing sponsorship by executives with active communication.
  C. Formulate, control and oversee the proper maintenance and growth of business assets.
  D. Define a set of processes, rules and policies that affect the way a corporation is directed, administered or controlled.
  B. Acquire ongoing sponsorship by executives with active communication.

• Question 25:

  A retail company is having difficulty implementing changes to its business process. Lines of business maintain their own data stores and proprietary access interfaces. There are severalmanual steps which involve recapturing of datA. How can they change this process to make it more efficient?

  A. Outsource the shipping function to reduce overhead costs.
  B. Create services that combine application and information assets.
  C. Create shared services to eliminate redundancies in the process.
  D. Choose the latest technology available to integrate the applications and resources.
  C. Create shared services to eliminate redundancies in the process.

• Question 26:

  What is a typical requirement in an SOA environment for determining business success?

  A. Adherence to six-sigma business guidelines
  B. A dashboard for reporting metrics to business analysts
  C. The ability to pilot the solution in a production environment to business stakeholders
  D. The capability to monitor and measure performance against business process goals
  D. The capability to monitor and measure performance against business process goals

• Question 27:

  Which advantages does the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) have over point-to-point solutions?

  A. Flexibility and cost
  B. Redundancy and agility
  C. Performance and scalability
  D. Versatility and adaptability
  D. Versatility and adaptability

• Question 28:

  What is one architectural principle surrounding SOA?

  A. Inheritance
  B. Encapsulation
  C. Cross-cutting concern
  D. Focus on messaging strategies
  B. Encapsulation

• Question 29:

  From an IT perspective, what are three goals of moving to SOA?

  A. Increasing the IT budget
  B. Implementing packaged applications
  C. Giving IT the maximum number of options to solve a business challenge or problem
  D. Exhibiting IT systems as evidence that the company is at the forefront of technology
  E. Viewing the operating environment as a set of services provided by the underlying IT infrastructure
  F. Improving Return on Investment (ROI) on IT assets by breaking traditional monolithic systems down into more manageable pieces
  C. Giving IT the maximum number of options to solve a business challenge or problem
  E. Viewing the operating environment as a set of services provided by the underlying IT infrastructure
  F. Improving Return on Investment (ROI) on IT assets by breaking traditional monolithic systems down into more manageable pieces

• Question 30:

  Which requirement is fulfilled by dynamic management of services during the execution in SOA?

  A. Meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Gold customers
  B. Assigning premiere customers to the Gold customer status
  C. Identifying an incoming request as coming from a Gold customer
  D. Changing a business process to provide enhanced capabilities for Gold customers
  A. Meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Gold customers