IBM C2160-669 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IBM C2160-669 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 51:

  How does SOA achieve alignment between business and IT?

  A. By ensuring services represent the underlying IT functions that the business must use in order to function
  B. By hiding operational details allowing services to be loosely coupled and changed to suit the situation
  C. By creating business processes that are direct representations of the business which can be simulated and refined
  D. By providing service operations that represent business tasks allowing those operations to be used in whatever combination the business decides is appropriate
  D. By providing service operations that represent business tasks allowing those operations to be used in whatever combination the business decides is appropriate

• Question 52:

  When is the location of the service provider first determined in the SOA lifecycle?

  A. Model business process and design according to requirements
  B. Construct and assemble service components
  C. Configure and deploy from test through production
  D. Manage to business and IT goals
  C. Configure and deploy from test through production

• Question 53:

  Why is defining appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) important for the success of an SOA?

  A. To provide IT performance metrics
  B. To determine the marketability of the SOA processes
  C. To justify funding for migration of the processes to SOA
  D. To provide feedback indicating Return on Investment (ROI) back to the business
  E. To enable business executives to identify impediments and bottlenecks in performance of the business processes
  D. To provide feedback indicating Return on Investment (ROI) back to the business

• Question 54:

  Failure to adopt SOA will result in which outcome?

  A. Automation of document processing will be difficult.
  B. Extremely high volume, synchronous, real-time transactions will occur.
  C. Integration costs continue to grow without being offset by new business opportunities.
  D. IT budget will increase to cover the cost of additional governance and development activities.
  C. Integration costs continue to grow without being offset by new business opportunities.

• Question 55:

  Which action should they take first?

  A. Create a service registry.
  B. Define an SOA governance model.
  C. Perform an SOA maturity assessment.
  D. Create an SOA Center of Excellence (CoE).
  C. Perform an SOA maturity assessment.

• Question 56:

  Which role does WS-Security play in an SOA?

  A. It provides security interchange for RESTful Web services.
  B. It enforces authentication and authorization within an SOA.
  C. It provides an end-to-end security context among Web services.
  D. It provides a security implementation for Enterprise Service Buses (ESB).
  C. It provides an end-to-end security context among Web services.

• Question 57:

  What is contained in an SOA repository as opposed to a registry?

  A. Service policy information
  B. Versions of software components
  C. Uncommitted transactions to enable compensation handling
  D. Service endpoint information to facilitate dynamic binding at runtime
  A. Service policy information

• Question 58:

  What most accurately describes a business process?

  A. The steps required to complete a unit of work in the optimal way
  B. An artifact used to capture the knowledge representing business requirements
  C. A flow of tasks that must be completed by systems or people in a certain order
  D. BPEL code that runs within a business process engine orchestrating the work of people and systems
  C. A flow of tasks that must be completed by systems or people in a certain order

• Question 59:

  What demonstrates one of the key principles communicated by the IBM SOA Reference Architecture?

  A. Business processes can be modeled in parallel with the services they rely on.
  B. Services are implemented using the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and exposed to service consumers.
  C. Business process developers need to communicate effectively with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) developers.
  D. Changes in service implementations require changes in the service interface which should be reflected in the service registry.
  A. Business processes can be modeled in parallel with the services they rely on.

• Question 60:

  What describes the role of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?

  A. An adapter that exposes back end functionality of legacy systems
  B. A routing and mediation component that loosely couples service interfaces
  C. A routing and mediation component that loosely couples service implementations
  D. A component where transformation and aggregation are used to implement service interfaces
  C. A routing and mediation component that loosely couples service implementations