Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :A2160-669
  • Exam Name
    :Assessment: SOA Fundamentals [2008]
  • Certification
    :IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Vendor
    :IBM
  • Total Questions
    :108 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :Mar 31, 2025

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

  • Question 81:

    What provides the most value in helping developers find existing SOA services and driving

    reuse?

    A. Service monitoring

    B. An asset repository

    C. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

    D. Access services to legacy systems

  • Question 82:

    What is made more difficult by moving to SOA?

    A. Outsourcing of business functions.

    B. Ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) objectives are met.

    C. Changing business processes to meet government regulations.

    D. Providing a role-based portal for employees, partners and customers.

  • Question 83:

    What is a role of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in SOA management?

    A. To provide the governance of services by limiting who can access services

    B. To provide point-to-point connection of service consumers and service providers

    C. To provide flexibility that allows business process inefficiencies to be rapidly corrected

    D. To ensure a seamless flow of information from anywhere at any time using a variety of protocols

  • Question 84:

    Which three meet the requirement for SOA identity propagation?

    A. It translates between different identities.

    B. It requires the use of open standards for authentication.

    C. It handles services which each have their own identity registry.

    D. It handles identities which are coupled with application business logic.

    E. It provides a token that describes digital signature blocks within a message.

    F. It understands and operates with a variety of formats for representing identity.

  • Question 85:

    Which three characteristics of services indicate a mature SOA environment?

    A. Services are discoverable.

    B. Services use Web 2.0 technology.

    C. Services are exposed by an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

    D. Services are composed into broader business functionality.

    E. Services contain logic to provide compatibility across technologies.

    F. Services use scripting languages to improve system responsiveness.

  • Question 86:

    A company has implemented a number of business processes using SOA services. How do they

    determine if their new processes are helping the organization to achieve its business objectives?

    A. They establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) to monitor and report on the SOA services performance.

    B. They contact a third party to analyze and evaluate the new processes against the business objectives.

    C. They set and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track performance against the business objectives.

    D. They model the new processes in a business model simulator to identify bottlenecks and potential performance issues.

  • Question 87:

    In which situation would a manufacturing plant most likely choose to use an SOA approach for

    their Customer Order Analysis and Tracking System?

    A. The company wanted development and operations to be as simple as possible.

    B. The company wanted to break down department silos and encourage everyone to use the same set of tools.

    C. Most of the company's processes were manual or document-centric with little opportunity for automation.

    D. The legacy system had grown in such a way that it was not easy to update and could not handle the emerging business demands.

  • Question 88:

    What does the SOAP specification define?

    A. A format for XML messaging

    B. An interface to a business process

    C. An Internet communications protocol

    D. The payload contents for a Web service message

  • Question 89:

    What is contained in an SOA repository as opposed to a registry?

    A. Service policy information

    B. Versions of software components

    C. Uncommitted transactions to enable compensation handling

    D. Service endpoint information to facilitate dynamic binding at runtime

  • Question 90:

    What does the information in the service registry support?

    A. The complete service lifecycle

    B. Runtime lookup of service endpoints

    C. Enhances messages through mediation

    D. Transformation of messages between different technologies

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