Exam : IBM 000-669
Title : SOA Fundamentals (2008)


1. Which initiative helps achieve business agility in SOA?
A. Pairing up the appropriate service consumers and providers.
B. Buying prefabricated objects to quickly implement business functions.
C. Choreographing a business process to efficiently implement the desired business functions.
D. Designing and developing a new business process model rather than adapting an existing one.
Answer: B

2. When is an SOA implementation most appropriate?
A. Real-time performance is critical.
B. An immediate Return on Investment (ROI) is required.
C. The application interfaces require a high degree of customization.
D. Business functionality is required by many parts of the organization.
Answer: C

3. How are the capabilities of a Web 2.0 application enhanced by SOA?
A. Two or more SOA services may be connected together to create a new business process, such as in the case of a mashup.
B. Business users can visually assemble mashups by blending publicly available information and services with a company's internal information and services.
C. Syndication of site content is enabled through the use of SOA, since it involves standardized protocols, which permit end-users to make use of a site's data in another context.
D. The community that uses the SOA services can employ community mechanisms on the application, such as ratings and comments, to provide feedback so the application can be
improved on the next iteration.
Answer: A

4. Which role does WS-Security play in an SOA?
A. It provides security interchange for RESTful Web services.
B. It enforces authentication and authorization within an SOA.
C. It provides an end-to-end security context among Web services.
D. It provides a security implementation for Enterprise Service Buses (ESB).
Answer: B

5. A retail company is having difficulty implementing changes to its business process. Lines of business maintain their own data stores and proprietary access interfaces. There are several
manual steps which involve recapturing of data. How can they change this process to make it more efficient?
A. Outsource the shipping function to reduce overhead costs.
B. Create services that combine application and information assets.
C. Create shared services to eliminate redundancies in the process.
D. Choose the latest technology available to integrate the applications and resources.
Answer: B

6. Which statement describes a business process in the context of SOA?
A. It is a business policy or decision procedure.
B. Items are accumulated and then processed together.
C. It is a series of tasks connected together like building blocks.
D. It enables interactions between message consumers and providers.
Answer: B

7. Which basic characteristics of SOA can contribute to business agility?
A. Reuse and security
B. Loose coupling and reuse
C. Governance and integration
D. Point-to-point integration and extensibility
Answer: A

8. Failure to adopt SOA will result in which outcome?
A. Automation of document processing will be difficult.
B. Extremely high volume, synchronous, real-time transactions will occur.
C. Integration costs continue to grow without being offset by new business opportunities.
D. IT budget will increase to cover the cost of additional governance and development activities.
Answer: B