Which of the following statements is true?
A. To apply service-orientation requires the use of Web services.
B. Web services are required in order to build service-oriented solutions.
C. When discussing SOA and service-oriented computing, the term "Web service" must always be synonymous with (have the same meaning as) the term "service".
D. None of these statements are true.
Which of the following statements is false?
A. A service is a unit of logic to which service-orientation has been applied to a meaningful extent.
B. Services are designed to increase the need for integration.
C. Services are the fundamental building blocks of service-oriented solutions.
D. A service composition is comprised of services.
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.
You can create or service inventories.
A. process-specific, process-wide
B. domain, enterprise
C. domain, process-specific
D. enterprise, process-specific
Service metadata can be centrally registered within a for discoverability purposes.
A. service inventory
B. service composition
C. service registry
D. service model
Service-oriented computing aims to increase an organization's responsiveness by allowing it to adapt to change more efficiently and effectively. This is known as:
A. organizational diversity
B. organizational agility
C. organizational federation
D. organizational interoperability
One of the fundamental characteristics of service-oriented architecture is:
A. business-driven
B. integration-centric
C. inventory-neutral
D. silo-driven
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.
Which of the following is a recommended or common part of a service-oriented enterprise?
A. business services
B. service registries
C. service contracts
D. all of the above
A service can be a service consumer. Select the correct answer.
A. True
B. False