IBM SOA : 667 Practice Questions and Answers

Question: 1

The SOA reference architecture identifies core services including Interaction, Process,
Information, Partner, Access, and Infrastructure. What is one valid reason for excluding one or
more of these services in an SOA?
A. The application is predominantly middleware in nature, eliminating the need for presentation
services.
B. The consumer and the provider belong to different companies.
C. The business sponsor has set budget constraints on solution architecture and the architectural
components to be included have to be prioritized.
D. The customer's internal politics make the specification too difficult.

Answer: A

Explaination : If the application is middleware only application then there is no need of having presentation service. Interaction service in IBM SOA reference architecture has Interaction services which provides interaction capability t user to interact to the system may not required hence answer is A
Option B,C, D are irrelevant


Question: 2

The IBM SOA Foundation includes services that support business innovation and optimization.
What should be found in an SOA deployment compliant with the SOA Foundation?
A. Automatic recognition of marketplace trends and dynamic reconfiguration of services in
support
B. Tools to help simulate business design and to predict the effect that design changes might
have on the business
C. Alerts generated whenever business efficiency drops below a predefined threshold
D. An SOA dashboard for executives showing new business opportunities categorized by Return
on Investment (ROI)

Answer: B

The word business innovation and optimization. are important. With tools to simulate business desing ( Busienss Simulator option in IBM Business Modeler) allows to improve Business process design without actually putting the process in production and identify any bottleneck in the system . Hence Answer is B


Question: 3
What is the next step while architecting an SOA solution after having just completed documenting
the business processes?
A. Determine the operations required to realize each process
B. Select a business steward for each process and instruct the steward to identify re-usable
services
C. Identify the services needed to realize each business process and group them into logical
components
D. Identify core and non-core business components

Answer: C