S90.09 Exam Questions & Answers

Service Consumer A sends a message to Service A (1), which then forwards the message to Service B (2). Service B forwards the message to Service C (3), which finally forwards the message to Service D (4).

Services A, B, and C each contain logic that reads the content of the message and, based on this content, determines which service to forward the message to. As a result, what is shown in the Figure is one of several possible runtime scenarios.

Currently, this service composition architecture is performing adequately, despite the number of services that can be involved in the transmission of one message. However, you are told that new logic is being added to Service A that will require it to compose one other service in order to retrieve new data at runtime that Service A will need access to in order to determine where to forward the message to. The involvement of the additional service will make the service composition too large and slow. What steps can be taken to improve the service composition architecture while still accommodating the new requirements and avoiding an increase in the amount of service composition members?

A. The Rules Centralization pattern can be applied to establish a centralized service that contains routing-related business rules. This new Rules service would replace Service B and could be accessed by Service A and Service C in order for Service A and Service C to determine where to forward a message to at runtime. The Service Composability principle can be further applied to ensure that all remaining services are designed as effective service composition participants.

B. The Asynchronous Queuing pattern can be applied together with the Rules Centralization pattern to establish a Rules service that encapsulates a messaging queue. This new Rules service would replace Service B and could be accessed by Service A and Service C in order for Service A and Service C to determine where to forward a message to at runtime. The Service Composability principle can be further applied to ensure that all remaining services are designed as effective service composition participants.

C. The Intermediate Routing pattern can be applied together with the Service Agent pattern by removing Service B or Service C from the service composition and replacing it with a service agent capable of intercepting and forwarding the message at runtime based on predefined routing logic. The Service Composability principle can be further applied to ensure that all remaining services are designed as effective service composition participants.

D. None of the above.

Service A. Service B. and Service C are each designed to access the same shared legacy system. The service contracts for Service A, Service B, and Service C are standardized and decoupled from the underlying service logic. Service A and Service B are agnostic services that are frequently reused by different service compositions. Service C is a non- agnostic task service that requires access to the legacy system in order to retrieve business rules required for the service to make runtime decisions that determine its service composition logic. The legacy system uses a proprietary file format that Services A, B, and C need to convert to and from.

You are told that additional services need to be created, all of which need access to the legacy system. You are also told that the legacy system may be replaced in the near future. What steps can be taken to ensure that the replacement of the legacy system has a minimal impact on Services A, B, and C and any future services that are designed to rely upon it?

A. The Legacy Wrapper pattern can be applied together with the Standardized Service Contract principle to position a standardized service contract between the legacy system and any services that require access to it. This effectively establishes a new utility service dedicated to the encapsulation of the legacy system. When the legacy system is replaced, the utility service can keep its standardized service contract. To build the utility service, the Data Format Transformation pattern is applied to convert between the proprietary legacy system file format and the XML format used in the standardized service contract.

B. The Legacy Wrapper pattern can be applied together with the Official Endpoint pattern so that the Service A service contract is positioned as the sole access point for the legacy system. The Data Format Transformation pattern is applied to enable the conversion between the proprietary legacy system file format and the XML format used in the Service A service contract. Finally, the Contract Centralization pattern is applied so that Service A is forced to only access the legacy system via its

published standardized service contract.

C. The Legacy Wrapper pattern can be applied together with the Data Format Transformation pattern and the Standardized Service Contract principle in order to establish an intermediate layer of standardized transformation logic that is positioned between the legacy system and Services A, B, and C. This way, if the legacy system is replaced, the services will not be affected because of the abstraction established by the standardized transformation layer.

D. None of the above.

Service A. Service B. and Service C are each designed to access the same shared legacy system. The service contracts for Service A, Service B, and Service C are standardized and decoupled from the underlying service logic. Service A and Service B are agnostic services that are frequently reused by different service compositions. Service C is a non- agnostic task service that requires access to the legacy system in order to retrieve business rules required for the service to make runtime decisions that determine its service composition logic. The legacy system uses a proprietary file format that Services A, B, and C need to convert to and from.

Service A is an agnostic utility service that is used by other services to gain access to the legacy system. Services B and C were not designed to access the legacy system via Service A because the Service A service contract was derived from the legacy system API and is therefore not standardized and exhibits negative contract-to-implementation coupling. You are told that additional services need to be created, all of which need access to the legacy system. You are also told that the legacy system may be replaced in the near future. What steps can be taken to ensure that the replacement of the legacy system has a minimal impact on Services B and C and any future services that are designed to rely upon it?

A. The Service Abstraction, Service Reusability, and Service Autonomy principles need to be applied in order to support the application of the Official Endpoint pattern to Service A . This would position Service A as the official utility service through which the legacy system can be accessed. Service B will need to be redesigned to access Service A instead of accessing the legacy

system directly. Due to the dependency on business rules embedded within the legacy system the

option of applying the Rules Centralization pattern is not available. Service C will therefore need to

continue accessing the legacy system directly.

B. The Standardized Service Contract and Service Loose Coupling principles can be applied in order to establish a standardized service contract for Service A that will eliminate its negative contract coupling. Service B will need to be redesigned to access Service A instead of accessing the legacy system directly. Due to the dependency on business rules embedded within the legacy system the option of applying the Rules Centralization pattern is not available. Service C will therefore need to continue accessing the legacy system directly.

C. The Legacy Wrapper pattern can be applied together with the Standardized Service Contract principle in order to establish a standardized service contract for Service A that will eliminate its negative contract coupling. The Official Endpoint pattern can then be applied to position Service A as the official utility service through which the legacy system can be accessed. Services B and C will need to be redesigned to access Service A instead of accessing the legacy system directly.

D. None of the above.