SOA Certified SOA Architect S90.01 Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  A service inventory is considered to have normalized services when:

  A. its scope does not overlap with any existing databases

  B. service boundaries within the service inventory do not overlap with each other

  C. each service within the service inventory is not used by more than one service composition

  D. legacy systems within the service inventory boundary do not overlap with each other

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 22:

  Service metadata can be centrally registered within a for discoverability purposes.

  A. service inventory

  B. service composition

  C. service registry

  D. service model

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 23:

  When planning a transition toward SOA, we are usually required to balance the goals with the requirements.

  A. strategic (long-term), tactical (short-term)

  B. strategic (long-term), unimportant (low priority)

  C. tactical (short-term), unimportant (low priority)

  D. unimportant (low priority), important (high priority)

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 24:

  Services are ideally designed to be:

  A. agnostic and reusable

  B. unidirectional and semi-granular

  C. linear and logistically decomposable

  D. returnable and non-standardized

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 25:

  The ROI (return on investment) potential of services is increased by:

  A. increasing the amount of agnostic services within an inventory

  B. increasing the amount of non-agnostic services within an inventory

  C. increasing the amount of legacy systems within an enterprise

  D. decreasing the scope of a service inventory

  Correct Answer: A

  

• Question 26:

  Which of the following is not the result of achieving the strategic goal of Reduced IT Burden?

  A. a reduction in waste and redundancy among automation solutions (compared to a traditional silo-based IT enterprise)

  B. a reduction in the quantity of services (compared to a traditional silo-based IT enterprise)

  C. a reduction in the overhead associated with IT governance and evolution (compared to a traditional silo-based IT enterprise)

  D. a reduction in size and operational cost of IT as a whole (compared to a traditional silo- based IT enterprise)

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 27:

  Which of the following statements is true?

  A. Organizational agility can be viewed as the ability of IT to rapidly produce new legacy applications on-demand.

  B. Organizational agility can be viewed as a state whereby the organization increases its responsiveness with the support of a more agile IT enterprise.

  C. Organizational agility can be viewed as a tactical benefit that empowers the organization to respond to new business requirements by building new applications from scratch each time.

  D. Organizational agility can be viewed as the ability of IT project managers to rapidly replace slow performing programmers without jeopardizing project delivery schedules.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 28:

  To qualify as a service composition, at least participating services need to be present. Otherwise, the service interaction only represents a point-to-point exchange.

  A. two

  B. four

  C. six

  D. eight

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 29:

  There are two basic types of service-oriented solution logic: and .

  A. services, service registries

  B. services, service compositions

  C. service candidates, service registries

  D. top-down service models, bottom-up service models

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 30:

  Which of the following statements is false?

  A. Service-orientation is a design paradigm that must be applied on an enterprise-wide basis in order to be successful.

  B. Service-orientation is a design paradigm comprised of a set of design principles.

  C. Service-orientation is an evolutionary design paradigm that has been influenced by older, established IT paradigms and platforms.

  D. Service-orientation is applied to logic in order to create service-oriented logic.

  Correct Answer: A