Quiz: Are you ready for SOA?

a. A framework enabling application functionality to be provided, discovered and consumed as re-usable Web services sets.

b. Nothing but business-oriented architecture, which allows the flexibility of business applications, to become independent but collaborative, while providing their services.

c. An approach to design and integrate software in a modular method where each module is precisely a 'loosely coupled service' that is accessible over a network and has the capability of being dynamically integrated with other services at run time.

d. All of the above

e. None of the above

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a. Services are stateless

b. Services abstract underlying logic

c. Services are object-oriented

d. Services are reusable

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a. Reduces development personnel

b. Reduces integration expense

c. Increases asset reuse

d. Increases business agility

e. Reduces business risk

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a. True

b. False

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a. SOA is the latest IT fad

b. SOA should only be pursued by large enterprises

c. SOA is inevitable

d. SOA will simplify all app dev processes

a. Build an XML data representation layer

b. Change from your traditional distributed architecture model

c. Create a transition plan

d. Standardize your development practices

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a. The ability to build components in the development language of your choice

b. Orchestration between the components in a service

c. Mediation between components

d. A runtime environment

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a. The Java enterprise platform has become too complicated

b. The Java programming language is outdated

c. Java has been unable to work alongside other programming languages

d. The Java Virtual Machine is built for portability when SOA requires interoperability

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a. It wasn't built with Web services and SOA in mind

b. It's too complicated

c. It only works for small applications

d. It's not built to run in a heterogeneous universe

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a. A JBI container

b. Ajax tooling

c. A Jax-WS runtime

d. The Service Component Architecture assembly methodology

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a. Data profiling

b. Data movement

c. Data auditing

d. All of the above

e. None of the above

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a. An early milestone for a corporate SOA implementation

b. Something that should be put in place after there's a significant number of services to govern

c. Applied only to the projects that really need it

d. Confined to the app dev department

Answer (Hint: read the fourth paragraph)

a. A service built by outside no-goodniks, designed to create havoc and/or steal information

b. A service that doesn't work very well

c. A service that gets lost in the IT system and no one in management know who's using it

d. A service that can't be reused

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a. The opportunity for vendors to sell you more software

b. The ability to tie technical architecture to business processes

c. Nothing, BPM and SOA are competing concepts

d. An alternate method of service composition

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a. True

b. False

Answer (Hint: read the ninth paragraph)

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a. Using XML networking hardware in conjunction with Web services management software

b. Beefing up traditional network security (e.g. firewalls, VPNs)

c. Using your ESB to make sure services are airtight during the testing phase

d. Implementing the latest Web service security specifications

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a. SOA that has thorough and consistent vendor support

b. Defect-free SOA

c. An SOA installment that quickly achieves ROI

d. An SOA that meets the requirements of its users, now and into the future

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a. You build it. You own it.

b. Always use the same set of pre-approved technologies and standards

c. Build the simplest possible service

d. Functionality trumps integration

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