Which of the following is not a benefit of maintaining a vendor-neutral and business- driven context for a service-oriented architecture?
A. Establish a technology architecture with a fixed scope and purpose that remains unchanged, regardless of how the business may need to change over time.
B. Avoid establishing a technology architecture that will need to be replaced in the near future when it no longer adequately fulfills business requirements.
C. Leverage new technological innovation in order to maximize the fulfillment of business requirements.
D. Establish a technology architecture that can stay in alignment with how the business may need to change over time.
Which of the following statements is false?
A. The design standardization of service contracts helps increase interoperability between services.
B. Design standardization can introduce organizational and cultural challenges because it requires that the design standards be regularly enforced.
C. The design standardization of service contracts helps avoid the need for transformation technologies.
D. Design standardization is not relevant to the design of service compositions. It is only relevant to the design of individual services.
A can be part of a/an which can be assembled from within a/an .
A. component, object, enterprises, service
B. service inventory, service, enterprises, service composition
C. service, service composition, services, service inventory
D. service inventory, service, service compositions, enterprise
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Organizational agility can be viewed as the ability of IT to rapidly produce new legacy applications on-demand.
B. Organizational agility can be viewed as a state whereby the organization increases its responsiveness with the support of a more agile IT enterprise.
C. Organizational agility can be viewed as a tactical benefit that empowers the organization to respond to new business requirements by building new applications from scratch each time.
D. Organizational agility can be viewed as the ability of IT project managers to rapidly replace slow performing programmers without jeopardizing project delivery schedules.
To qualify as a service composition, at least participating services need to be present. Otherwise, the service interaction only represents a point-to-point exchange.
A. two
B. four
C. six
D. eight
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 software program that invokes and interacts with a service is referred to as a:
A. service contract
B. service inventory
C. service container
D. none of the above
When you establish a federated service layer, you end up creating:
A. a unified set of service contracts for the benefit of those building service consumers
B. a unified set of service consumer programs for the benefit of those building services to be consumed by those programs
C. a unified set of service compositions for the benefit of those responsible for defining service inventory boundaries
D. all of the above
A service-oriented solution can be comprised of a single service with a single service capability.
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