SOA Certified Professional Fundamental SOA & Service-Oriented Computing Sample Questions:

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

A) unimportant (low priority), important (high priority)
B) strategic (long-term), unimportant (low priority)
C) tactical (short-term), unimportant (low priority)
D) strategic (long-term), tactical (short-term)

2. The goals of service-oriented computing are focused on tactical (short-term) benefits, as opposed to strategic (long-term) benefits. Select the correct answer.

A) False
B) True

3. Which of the following SOA myths are false? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

A) "An application is considered service-oriented if it uses Web services."
B) "The successful adoption of SOA will help an organization become more agile and responsive."
C) "It is required that you stick with a single SOA vendor platform in order to successfully achieve the strategic goals of service-oriented computing."
D) "SOA projects always require enterprise-wide standardization and enterprise-wide global data models."

4. Below are excerpts from four different SOA adoption strategy documents. Based on your understanding of SOA, service-orientation, and the goals of service-oriented computing, select the adoption strategy that is clearly the most likely to succeed:

A) "Our strategy is to make the consistent application of service-orientation principles a priority in order to support the attainment of the goals of service-oriented computing. The primary justification for this approach is the fact that we have identified the goals of service-oriented computing to be in alignment with our own business goals."
B) "Each of our existing legacy applications already establishes a domain boundary that is defined by the purpose of the application. We are confident that by leveraging these pre-defined silo-based boundaries we can create a series of effective domain service inventories, each with a scope that corresponds to a legacy application boundary."
C) "Our strategy fully supports the tactical (short-term) nature of service-oriented computing by de-emphasizing standardization and allowing different project teams to deliver services optimized to their respective requirements. This not only speeds the initial delivery of services, it further supports interoperability by enabling services to leverage established integration technologies."
D) "As part of our planned transition toward service-orientation, we will continue to extend the existing legacy applications with transformation-centric middleware that will enable seamless integration and runtime conversion between the different data models and data formats used by these applications."

5. Which of the following statements does not make sense?

A) Intrinsic interoperability is important because it is fundamental to enabling services to be repeatedly composed.
B) Intrinsic interoperability is important because one of the goals of service-oriented computing is to increase intrinsic interoperability.
C) Intrinsic interoperability is important because it helps increase the quantity of integration projects that may be required to accommodate new business requirements, thereby fostering agility.
D) Intrinsic interoperability is important because it enables services to exchange data without having to resort to transformation technologies.

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