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Exam Name: SOA FundamentalsExam Type: IBMExam Code: 000-664 Total Questions: 54

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Question: 1Which business factor least promotes a trend towards SOA?

A - The forces of changeB - Enterprise reconstruction

C - Industry deconstructionD - Organizational stability

Answer: D

Question: 2Which two are barriers to the adoption of SOA?

A - An existing component InfrastructureB - A deliberate, well-conceived path from the as-is to the to-be goalC - A failure to collaborate across product units or divisionsD - Time spent in face-to-face customer meetingsE - The corporate tendency to just male it work

Answer: C, E

Question: 3Which SOA entry point most accurately matches the following sentence? Start by modeling anunderperforming process, remove bottlenecks, then simulate and deploy the optimized process.

A - PeopleB - ProcessC - ConnectivityD - InformationE - Reuse

Answer: B

Question: 4Which SOA implementation change needs proper versioning of services?

A - New operations to existing serviceB - Relocation of UDDI registriesC - Changes to service implementationD - Changes to transport implementation

Answer: A

Question: 5What is the most important business and technical benefit to an SOA?

A - Standardized integration of diverse and complex business systemsB - Ability to respond quickly to change and gain a competitive advantageC - Justify the cost of investment in IT resourcesD - True real-time performance of critical business applicationsE - Loyal customers and improved end-user experience

Answer: B

Question: 6

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Which is a true factor that poses a challenge to SOA adoption by organizations?

A - Stable and consistent technical standardsB - Co-location of service componentsC - Universal inter-operability amongst different platforms

D - Defining services with appropriate granularity Answer: D

Question: 7Which three are benefits that SOA can provide to the IT community?

A - Homogenizes the IT environmentB - Promotes reuse of servicesC - Promotes flexible solutionsD - Regulates the products that can be used in the IT environmentE - Justifies investment in IT more clearlyF - Increases traffic and throughput of business applications

Answer: B, C, E

Question: 8IBM, in partnership with Mercer Management Consulting, has identified three core business-centric SOA starting points and two IT-centric starting points. What are two IT-centric startingpoints from the answer choices?

A - PeopleB - ProcessC - ConnectivityD - PolicyE - Reuse

Answer: C, E

Question: 9Which two people or technology factors could have a negative impact on a companys readinessfor SOA?

A - An understanding that SOA requires a paradigm shift towards more flexible business modelsB - Resistance to change in the organizationC - Empowerment of an SOA governance bodyD - Support of senior executivesE - A vision of SOA that is not balanced with the delivery capabilities of the IT department

Answer: B, E

Question: 10Which four are barriers to the adoption of SOA?

A - Seeking customer input when inventing new productsB - Obsession with time to marketC - A risk-taking management styleD - Organizational silosE - Unskilled partnersF - A limited pool of local talent

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G - Focusing on new market opportunities

Answer: B, D, E, F

Question: 11

Which factor is the least likely key business driver in deciding to adopt an SOA? A - The existing technology represents an organic infrastructure that is simply too expensive or

complex to maintain.B - The existing system is exhibited proudly as evidence that the company is at the forefront of

data-processing technology.C - The existing system fails to offer the capabilities that the myriad of new business challenges

require.D - There are massive cultural changes occurring in business mergers, acquisitions, downsizing,

and upsizing.

Answer: B

Question: 12Which two people or technology factors have a positive impact on a companys readiness forSOA?

A - The clear division between the language used by the business operations community and thetechnical jargon of the IT community

B - Focusing on the technical issues and not considering the organizational issuesC - Finding an enterprise approach that allows business leaders and IT to meet in the middleD - Unlocking new ways to address the issue of business-driven software changes and

implementationE - An existing investment in rich-feature software technologies

Answer: C, D

Question: 13 An online music store lets customers listen to the first part of songs for an album. If they buy thesong, it is downloaded to their computer. Which three are the best services?

A - Open the music storeB - View songs on an albumC - Listen to a song clipD - Buy a songE - Listen to an albumF - Print a receipt

Answer: B, C, D

Question: 14Which standard specifies how integrity and confidentiality can be enforced on Web services?

A - WS-SecurityB - WS-EncryptionC - WSDLD - WSRP

Answer: A

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Question: 25Loose coupling in SOA is possible because of support from which two components?

A - Business process modelsB - SOA governance

C - The enterprise service bus (ESB)D - JDBC adapterE - Web service interfaces

Answer: C, E

Question: 26Which business interaction model approach, it any, is the recommended SOA approach thatleads to business agility?

A - All points integrate in a point-to-point integration, where technology aware bridges are builtbetween application components.

B - All points integrate once to the network, publish their services and make service requests.C - All points integrate to a hub once and have subscription to a limited number of services.D - SOA does not strictly recommend one approach since the approach can vary depending on

several factors.

Answer: B

Question: 27When does a company attain competitive business agility?

A - When the same communication mechanism is used by all services, thus leading to a fastresponse time

B - When a change in business process doesnt require a change to application programminglogic

C - When the number of services is less than the number of individual business needs

D - When the services of the company are faster than the comparable services of the competitors

Answer: B

Question: 28SOA can provide the most improvement in competitiveness and productivity if the businessfunction:

A - has a single-platform environment.B - is currently highly-optimized in terms of performance.C - can be easily integrated in case there are future acquisitions.D - is already defined as a Web application.

Answer: C

Question: 29What is the impact of NOT adopting an SOA?

A - Web services cannot be exposed.B - Acquisition and divestiture are more difficult.C - Reusable components cannot be created.D - Geographical expansion is easier.E - Organizational silos will exist.

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Answer: B, E

Question: 30 A banks loan processing begins by the customer filling out a loan application on paper and the

clerk entering this information in a secured database. The bank aims to improve this process byenabling customers to fill out applications online and automating entering the information to thesecured database. The bank IT environment is not multi-platform and the same programminglanguage is used universally. Which two statements are true?

A - The company cannot benefit from SOA adoption since it does not have a multi-platformenvironment.

B - The company cannot benefit from SOA adoption since it does not have a multi-programminglanguage environment.

C - Representing the task of adding information to the database as a service in SOA makes iteasily available.

D - The task of filling out applications involves human interaction and can benefit by beingrepresented as the starting point of a composite SOA process.

E - SOA can be adopted only after the bank enables filling out applications online.

Answer: C, D

Question: 31SOA should NOT be used when it is critical to attain true real-time performance because:

A - the service registry adds a significant performance overhead in publishing and discoveringservices.

B - SOA enables more than one service consumer to consume services of a single serviceprovider.

C - SOA cannot guarantee subsecond response times between service provider and serviceconsumers.

D - mediation services of an enterprise service bus (ESB) add a significant performance

overhead.

Answer: C

Question: 32What are two gains of adopting an SOA?

A - Easier to attain a custom point-to-point integrationB - Easier to change a customer or a supplierC - Use of location dependent servicesD - Easier product or service rolloutsE - Limitation on the total number of communication mechanisms to manage

Answer: B, D

Question: 33Which component of an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables customization of messagingbehavior?

A - MediationB - Proxy serviceC - Messaging serviceD - Web Services Gateway

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Answer: A

Question: 34What is the most accepted way to formalize business process execution?

A - ebXMLB - XML ParserC - WS-CoordinationD - SOAP4JE - BPEL

Answer: E

Question: 35During the deploy phase of SOA life cycle, services are:

A - monitored to provide key performance indicators to diagnose and fix problems.B - configured and installed to provide a robust, scalable and secure runtime environment.C - created to fit the business requirements and define integration points.D - simulated to provide a service model interface for its consumers.

Answer: B

Question: 36What must a service in an SOA have in order to make it accessible to a wide range of serviceconsumers?

A - Loose couplingB - An enterprise layerC - An interfaceD - Encapsulation

Answer: C

Question: 37 A service needs to include a mediation component to perform tasks such as message validationand content-based routing. What is the most effective architectural component to do mediation?

A - SOAP messagesB - MetadataC - Web-service bindingsD - Enterprise service bus (ESB)

Answer: D

Question: 38Which component of an enterprise service bus (ESB) controls access to the bus for externalservices?

A - Endpoint listenerB - Service brokerC - Service RegistryD - Outbound service

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Answer: C

Question: 39 An online shopping cart application needs to use an SOA shipment processing service. For theshopping application, which two should be the least important concerns about the service

provider during the model and assembly phases of the SOA lifecycle? A - Performance requirementsB - Hardware/software platform of the service implementationC - Invocation patterns between the servicesD - Programming language of the service implementationE - Location of the service provider

Answer: B, D

Question: 40 An SOA implementation needs to change its communication protocol from HTTP to HTTPS forsecurity purposes. Which SOA life cycle phase will this affect?

A - ModelB - MonitorC - DeployD - Manage

Answer: C

Question: 41Web services are a leading technology choice for implementing an SOA because they are:

A - widely supported.B - platform-specific.C - message-oriented.

D - consumer-focused.E - secure, scalable, and robust.F - standards-based.

Answer: A, C, F

Question: 42 An analyst needs to document a Web service that executes conditional flows across otherbusiness services. Which two technologies can be used to express this?

A - SOAPB - XML ParserC - WS-Coordination

D - SOAP4JE - BPEL

Answer: C, E

Question: 43In an SOA, connectivity services are delivered through:

A - the service registry.B - the XML namespace.

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C - the enterprise service bus (ESB).D - the plumbing layer.

Answer: C

Question: 44What is the purpose of a service interface in an SOA?

A - It hides the details of implementations made available by service providers.B - It identifies a wide range of business objects, their attributes, and behaviors needed for each

of the business functions required in an SOA.C - It handles one major functional area of the business.D - It identifies business processes that are incorporated into the enterprise business model.

Answer: A

Question: 45What is the most important SOA governance success factor?

A - Interested management parties benefit from information encapsulation.B - The need for cross-organizational decision-making is reduced.C - The business adapts to a dynamic change in the market.D - Loose-coupling of strategy enhances organizational effectiveness.

Answer: C

Question: 46 An enterprise governance committee authorizes an upgrade to a business service. The changeadds new functionality while dropping support for some features. What should the enterpriseservice lifecycle governance process address?

A - Keeping service-related metadata constant

B - Informing all interested partiesC - Adherence to the Six Sigma refinement mechanismD - Ensuring that upgraded service is fine-grained

Answer: B

Question: 47Which two fit the need for an SOA distributed security model?

A - SOA governance mandates distributed transactions.B - Multiple applications could have different user identity registries.C - OASIS WS-Security is a distributed security standard.D - Business partner services can reside outside an enterprise firewall.

E - Business service consumers must be prevented from accessing business processes.

Answer: B, D

Question: 48Which two items should a Service Level Agreement (SLA) address for Quality-of-Service (QoS)requirements?

A - PerformanceB - Implementation platform

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C - ReliabilityD - Service API transportE - SOAP Headers

Answer: A, C

Question: 49IT governance should include answers to which two questions about changing a businessservice?

A - How will IT identify, measure, resolve, and accept the change?B - Does the metadata repository need an accompanying upgrade?C - Is the service level sufficiently tine-grained?D - Who needs to be notified?E - Which business processes are affected?

Answer: D, E

Question: 50Why is readiness and risk assessment an important initial SOA governance activity?

A - It relieves the organization from reassessing its risk at a later stage in the SOA project.B - It identifies the gaps and roadblocks between the current and future service-oriented state of

the enterprise.C - It recommends the number of services to be defined for each function.D - SOA is based on a lot of technologies and open standards, and this complication needs to be

addressed early.

Answer: B

Question: 51 An SOA-governance committee is concerned about privacy in passing credit card numbers from

one SOA component to another. Which governance policy will mitigate the risk of exposing thisinformation?

A - Require background checks for IT personnel.B - Do not pass credit card expiration date.C - Configure the enterprise service bus (ESB) to log all messages.D - Configure the enterprise service bus (ESB) to encrypt all messages.

Answer: D

Question: 52Which two are valid SOA governance metrics?

A - SOA information technology costsB - Service transactions-per-secondC - IT project Return-On-Investment (ROI)D - Maximum service response timesE - Defects per 1000 lines of code

Answer: A, C

Question: 53

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An enterprise sends orders to a separate enterprise for manufacture and shipping. Themanufacturers SOA governance policy mandates that components verify the authenticity of theoriginal order request at a single control point. Where is a good point to verify order authenticity?

A - In the enterprise service bus (ESB)

B - In the SOAP security headerC - At the corporate firewallD - At the UDDI registry

Answer: A

Question: 54Why do companies need to pay attention to SOA governance?

A - It is important to define the roles and responsibilities of everyone on the SOA project.B - It helps the organization to focus on business strategy rather than IT resources and initiatives.C - It enables the organization to rapidly respond to new business opportunities.D - It is not feasible to attain a correct SOA architecture without SOA governance.E - It controls the IT complexity by limiting the number of new technologies that are adopted.F - It helps aligning business strategy with the IT initiatives of the company.

Answer: A, C, F

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