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

1. Which of the following is an expected result of successfully adopting SOA?

A) A natural increase in runtime performance that you will gain as a result of the fact that service compositions will often be comprised of a greater amount of individually participating programs (services) than traditional distributed applications.
B) The fact that the existing IT organizational structure will not have to change because of how well a service-oriented enterprise fits into traditional IT departmental structures that are focused on project-centric application delivery.
C) The tactical (short-term) focus of service-orientation, which allows for the initial rapid delivery of services without concerns about their subsequent governance.
D) The strategic (long-term) target state that is attainable when many of the services delivered are interoperable and reusable, thereby allowing for them to be repeatedly composed in response to new and changing business requirements.

2. Which of the following statements makes sense?

A) I am going to register my new service in the service registry because Service Registration is one of the eight principles of service-orientation.
B) I am going to register my new service in the service registry so that other project teams can
discover it in order to determine whether they should reuse it as part of service-oriented solutions they are planning to build.
C) I am going to register my new service inventory in the service registry in order to improve the performance of my service-oriented solution, because other services in my service composition will be able to dynamically discover and retrieve the new service much faster than if it was not registered in the service registry.
D) None of these statements make sense.

3. Which of the following statements are true? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY

A) A service inventory establishes a boundary for a collection of services.
B) The quantity of services within a service inventory will increase as new services that belong within the service inventory boundary are delivered.
C) Service inventories are ideally planned and modeled ahead of time via the creation of service inventory blueprints.
D) Service inventories represent collections of related services that are independently standardized and governed.

4. A software program that invokes and interacts with a service is referred to as a:

A) none of the above
B) service contract
C) service container
D) service inventory

5. What is wrong with this statement: "We delivered two services last year. Even though each service was delivered by a separate project team in a different location and at a different time, I am confident that the services will be reasonably interoperable because each project team was asked to use the same design standards."

A) The statement is incorrect because SOA delivery projects require that services be created at exactly the same time in order to guarantee interoperability.
B) The statement is incorrect because services should never be delivered by different project teams.
C) There is nothing wrong with this statement.
D) The statement is incorrect because services rely on post-implementation integration effort in order to achieve interoperability, not design standards.

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