Which of the following is not the result of achieving the strategic goal of Reduced IT Burden?

A. a reduction in waste and redundancy among automation solutions (compared to a traditional silo-based IT enterprise)

B. a reduction in the quantity of services (compared to a traditional silo-based IT enterprise)

C. a reduction in the overhead associated with IT governance and evolution (compared to a traditional silo-based IT enterprise)

D. a reduction in size and operational cost of IT as a whole (compared to a traditional silo- based IT enterprise)

By applying a strategic scope to the technology architecture, it can be kept in constant synch with how the business evolves over time.

A. consistently decreasing

B. middleware-centric

C. vendor-driven

D. None of the above answers correctly complete this sentence.

A product or technology that is key to facilitating service discovery and service governance in general is a:

A. visual service development tool

B. business analysis tool

C. service registry

D. none of the above

Service composition is important to the success of SOA initiatives because:

A. You can only create service-oriented solutions as service compositions.

B. Services that compose multiple legacy systems can be designed to leverage only the parts of each system that are relevant to the functional context of the service.

C. Service compositions enable the service-oriented computing goal of Increased Federation by guaranteeing that service endpoints are consistently designed and developed.

D. Services that can be composed and recomposed support several service-oriented computing goals, including Increased ROI and Increased Organizational Agility.

If a service can have one or more service capabilities, then how can a service consumer interact with a service?

A. It can't. The service must only provide one service capability in order for it to be accessible by service consumers.

B. Each service capability represents a function that the service has to offer. The service consumer can invoke and interact with one service capability at a time, thereby only using a subset of the service's overall functionality.

C. Service capabilities are designed to be composed together, which means that in order for a service consumer to interact with a service, it must be designed to invoke all of its service capabilities at the same time.

D. Services do not have service capabilities that are explicitly invoked. Services almost always exist as event-driven programs that transparently intercept service consumer messages at runtime.

Four IT managers from different organizations have chosen to adopt SOA. When subsequently interviewed, each was asked to explain why this decision was made. One of the IT managers is confused and chose to adopt SOA for the wrong reasons. Study the following responses and select the one that is not accurate:

A. "SOA will help us increase the responsiveness of the organization as a whole. When our business encounters change, our IT department will be able to adapt and respond to this change more efficiently and effectively than before."

B. "SOA will help us increase the amount of value we get from the software programs we build as reusable services. Over time, this will allow us to improve the cost- effectiveness of IT as a whole."

C. "SOA will help us streamline our IT enterprise. Our goal, ultimately, is to turn the increased value to the IT department into a part of the organization that provides business while reducing its overall burden."

D. "SOA will help our IT department overcome cultural challenges we've traditionally had with the ownership of EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) platforms. Through the use of proven bridging and transformation technologies introduced by SOA, any IT staff that have historically disagreed with each other about ownership issues, will now be able to overcome their differences."

When following the distinct lifecycle phases of an SOA delivery project you are: A. discouraged from involving business analysts as part of the definition of services so that services remain technically focused

B. discouraged from involving technology experts as part of the definition of services so that services remain business focused

C. encouraged to have business analysts and technology experts collaborate in the definition of services so that services have and retain an alignment of technology and business

D. none of the above

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a common machine-readable document that is considered part of the technical service contract. Select the correct answer.

A. True

B. False

Service-oriented computing advocates establishing a technology architecture with increased vendor technology diversity, which means that service-oriented solutions need to be consistently built using different vendor technologies and products. This way, the failure of any one vendor technology or product will not bring down all services within a service inventory. Select the correct answer.

A. True

B. False

Service-oriented computing aims to reduce the burden of IT upon the organization as a whole by reducing waste, operational cost, and overhead associated with the governance and evolution of the IT enterprise. Select the correct answer

A. True

B. False