IBM IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) A2160-669 Questions & Answers

• Question 41:

  From an IT perspective, what are three goals of moving to SOA?

  A. Increasing the IT budget

  B. Implementing packaged applications

  C. Giving IT the maximum number of options to solve a business challenge or problem

  D. Exhibiting IT systems as evidence that the company is at the forefront of technology

  E. Viewing the operating environment as a set of services provided by the underlying IT infrastructure

  F. Improving Return on Investment (ROI) on IT assets by breaking traditional monolithic systems down into more manageable pieces

  Correct Answer: CEF

• Question 42:

  Which people, organizational or technology factors would limit an organization's readiness for

  SOA?

  A. Skills not available

  B. Standardization of services in each industry

  C. Tight integration with their business partners

  D. Frequent inspection of the current business model and its components

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 43:

  Which situation is most appropriate for an SOA implementation?

  A. Customer's IT strategy is to use desktop applications.

  B. The organization relies on a homogeneous environment.

  C. Pilot and prototype development is a focus of the IT organization.

  D. Parts of an application need to be developed, maintained and updated independently.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 44:

  A satellite television service company is starting an SOA project to support an upcoming

  advertising campaign for high-definition television service. What is the most effective way to

  ensure that the business issues drive the technical implementation and achieve anticipated

  Return on Investment (ROI)?

  A. Create a reference model to categorize the standards, specifications and technologies to construct, deliver and exchange application components and a framework to describe,

  B. Document the business requirements and expected goals. Design the business services required to fulfill these needs. Develop test cases based on these initial business

  C. Document the technical design of the project and have the business analysts on the review team ensure this is meeting the business requirements. Validate at various points in

  D. Create a framework for measuring the performance of major IT investments and associated assets. Build a reference model that describes and analyzes the current operational

  E. Map the business requirements against this model to determine the new capabilities that are required.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 45:

  In a growth industry, what is the most effective technique to secure executive sponsorship from a

  line of business for a company's adoption of SOA?

  A. Present the IT savings that can be achieved via an SOA-based reuse strategy.

  B. Emphasize the significant market acceptance of SOA as the new standard architectural style.

  C. Focus on the rate of change in the industry and the need for business agility to take advantage of these marketplace changes.

  D. Send the executive the recent article describing a competitor's SOA success that has just been published in the latest issue of an industry trade magazine.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 46:

  Which people, organizational or technology factors negatively impact the adoption of SOA?

  A. Putting funding mechanisms in place to encourage reuse

  B. Agreeing on policies for service reuse across lines of business

  C. Planning to perform a complete overhaul of all business processes

  D. Defining additional capabilities required, such as upgrades to the IT infrastructure

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 47:

  In preparing to go to SOA, which governance aspect should be implemented from the beginning?

  A. Create the SOA architecture documentation.

  B. Manage and secure services, applications and resources.

  C. Provide a framework for measuring the effectiveness of SOA.

  D. Establish the common metadata model to ensure interoperability.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 48:

  Which is an important decision for the adoption of SOA?

  A. Use Web services for all SOA communication.

  B. Use the latest open standard specification in the industry.

  C. Focus on a core set of systems when defining enterprise services.

  D. Encapsulate underlying technical differences between different SOA implementations.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 49:

  A company has prioritized their most important requirements for SOA to be the need to speed up

  integration, reduce application redundancy and provide the flexibility to change service

  implementations. Which type of project should be recommended?

  A. Create a common metadata model that can be used for all development projects.

  B. Implement an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and registry/repository as a connectivity layer in the SOA architecture.

  C. Document the existing architecture, legacy systems, and interfaces. Make this available in a common repository that can be accessed by all developers.

  D. Use business modeling tools to model and simulate the application development process and identify bottlenecks. Address highest priority bottlenecks that can be automated to E.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 50:

  A recent strategic corporate directive is demanding a decrease in the operational budget of a cargo airline by 2%. The CIO has indicated a shift to SOA can help gain efficiencies in development costs. The company has just signed a partnership with a package delivery company that requires integration between the systems of the two companies. When preparing for SOA adoption, what is most important to document to show Return on Investment (ROI) from the shift to SOA?

  A. The current operational budget for the company and the partner company

  B. The current IT governance overlap between the company and the partner company

  C. The current Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the company and the partner company

  D. The estimated cost for point-to-point integration with the partner company using the current messaging system

  Correct Answer: D