IBM Test667, Architectural Design of SOA Solution

I recently took the IBM 667: Architectural Design of SOA Solutions exam yesterday and passed, which means that I’m now an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer and SOA Associate.

The list of articles and redbooks needed to prepare for the exam are located at here

Here are a few sample questions below from various training sites.

Question: 1
The SOA reference architecture identifies core services including Interaction, Process,
Information, Partner, Access, and Infrastructure. What is one valid reason for excluding one or
more of these services in an SOA?
A. The application is predominantly middleware in nature, eliminating the need for presentation
services.
B. The consumer and the provider belong to different companies.
C. The business sponsor has set budget constraints on solution architecture and the architectural
components to be included have to be prioritized.
D. The customer’s internal politics make the specification too difficult.
Answer: A

Question: 2
The IBM SOA Foundation includes services that support business innovation and optimization.
What should be found in an SOA deployment compliant with the SOA Foundation?
A. Automatic recognition of marketplace trends and dynamic reconfiguration of services in
support
B. Tools to help simulate business design and to predict the effect that design changes might
have on the business
C. Alerts generated whenever business efficiency drops below a predefined threshold
D. An SOA dashboard for executives showing new business opportunities categorized by Return
on Investment (ROI)
Answer: B

Question: 3
What is the next step while architecting an SOA solution after having just completed documenting
the business processes?
A. Determine the operations required to realize each process
B. Select a business steward for each process and instruct the steward to identify re-usable
services
C. Identify the services needed to realize each business process and group them into logical
components
D. Identify core and non-core business components
Answer: C

Question: 4
A mortgage loan provider currently has legacy applications utilized by a network of branches and
franchised agents. They want to expand by adding a new channel to allow independent mortgage
brokers to submit mortgage loan applications. They realize they must provide a differentiating
offering to the independent mortgage brokers to attract participants and grow the new channel.
How can SOA benefit their requirement?
A. By building an SOA with a secure connectivity layer, they could quickly enable the mortgage
broker channel to use their applications without any changes to the legacy system.
B. They could reduce the cost to develop new applications needed for each independent broker
by reusing services as integration code that is written for each broker’s system to expedite
development.

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