SOA - MODULE 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Seven Strategic Goals and Benefits of Service-Oriented Computing - Correct Answers -
> Increased Intrinsic Interoperability
> Increased Federation
> Increased Business and Technology Alignment
> Increased Vendor Diversification Options
> Increased ROI
> Increased Organizational Agility
> Reduced IT Burden
Integration - Correct Answers -represents the effort required to achieve interoperability
between software programs
Goal of service-orientation - Correct Answers -to establish native or intrinsic
interoperability between services in order to reduce the need for integration
Vendor diversification - Correct Answers -represents the option to refactor or extend
parts of an enterprise with new vendor technologies and products
Applying service-orientation results in - Correct Answers -> reduced waste and
redundancy
> reduced size and operational cost
> reduced overhead associated with its governance and evolution
Fundamental characteristics of SOA are: - Correct Answers -> Business-driven
> Vendor-neutral
> Enterprise-centric
> Composition-centric
Four primary types of service-oriented architecture - Correct Answers -> Service
Architecture
> Service Composition Architecture
> Service Inventory Architecture
> Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture
Eight service-orientation design principles - Correct Answers -> Standardized Service
Contract
, > Service Loose Coupling
> Service Abstraction
> Service Reusability
> Service Autonomy
> Service Statelessness
> Service Discoverability
> Service Composability
A _____ is the most fundamental unit of service-oriented logic. - Correct Answers -
service
Service-oriented solutions are typically comprised of multiple services that form a
______. - Correct Answers -service composition
Creating standardized service contracts is a key requirement to achieving the strategic
goals of _______ and _______. - Correct Answers -increased federation and intrinsic
interoperability
When a program invokes and interacts with a service it is labeled as a ________. -
Correct Answers -service consumer.
The ability for one service to invoke (consume) another service forms the basis of
________. - Correct Answers -service composition
A ______ is an aggregate of services collectively composed to automate a particular
task or business process. - Correct Answers -service composition
Service composition is very important to the success of an SOA initiative b/c the
strategic benefits of _______ and _______ rely on the ability to compose and
recompose services together. - Correct Answers -increased ROI and organizational
agility
There are two basic types of service-oriented solution logic: ________ and ________. -
Correct Answers -services and service compositions
A service-oriented solution can encompass _______ b/c it represents a body of logic
capable of carrying out one or more related tasks or business processes. - Correct
Answers -one or more service compositions
A _______ is an independently standardized and governed collection of complementary
services within a boundary that represents an enterprise or a meaningful segment of an
enterprise. - Correct Answers -service inventory
When an organization has multiple service inventories, this term is further qualified as
______. - Correct Answers -domain service inventory
AND ANSWERS
Seven Strategic Goals and Benefits of Service-Oriented Computing - Correct Answers -
> Increased Intrinsic Interoperability
> Increased Federation
> Increased Business and Technology Alignment
> Increased Vendor Diversification Options
> Increased ROI
> Increased Organizational Agility
> Reduced IT Burden
Integration - Correct Answers -represents the effort required to achieve interoperability
between software programs
Goal of service-orientation - Correct Answers -to establish native or intrinsic
interoperability between services in order to reduce the need for integration
Vendor diversification - Correct Answers -represents the option to refactor or extend
parts of an enterprise with new vendor technologies and products
Applying service-orientation results in - Correct Answers -> reduced waste and
redundancy
> reduced size and operational cost
> reduced overhead associated with its governance and evolution
Fundamental characteristics of SOA are: - Correct Answers -> Business-driven
> Vendor-neutral
> Enterprise-centric
> Composition-centric
Four primary types of service-oriented architecture - Correct Answers -> Service
Architecture
> Service Composition Architecture
> Service Inventory Architecture
> Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture
Eight service-orientation design principles - Correct Answers -> Standardized Service
Contract
, > Service Loose Coupling
> Service Abstraction
> Service Reusability
> Service Autonomy
> Service Statelessness
> Service Discoverability
> Service Composability
A _____ is the most fundamental unit of service-oriented logic. - Correct Answers -
service
Service-oriented solutions are typically comprised of multiple services that form a
______. - Correct Answers -service composition
Creating standardized service contracts is a key requirement to achieving the strategic
goals of _______ and _______. - Correct Answers -increased federation and intrinsic
interoperability
When a program invokes and interacts with a service it is labeled as a ________. -
Correct Answers -service consumer.
The ability for one service to invoke (consume) another service forms the basis of
________. - Correct Answers -service composition
A ______ is an aggregate of services collectively composed to automate a particular
task or business process. - Correct Answers -service composition
Service composition is very important to the success of an SOA initiative b/c the
strategic benefits of _______ and _______ rely on the ability to compose and
recompose services together. - Correct Answers -increased ROI and organizational
agility
There are two basic types of service-oriented solution logic: ________ and ________. -
Correct Answers -services and service compositions
A service-oriented solution can encompass _______ b/c it represents a body of logic
capable of carrying out one or more related tasks or business processes. - Correct
Answers -one or more service compositions
A _______ is an independently standardized and governed collection of complementary
services within a boundary that represents an enterprise or a meaningful segment of an
enterprise. - Correct Answers -service inventory
When an organization has multiple service inventories, this term is further qualified as
______. - Correct Answers -domain service inventory
