EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A dealer in rare and antique books is interested in streamlining their business process. Bottlenecks occur when dealing with inventory and shipping functions in the process.
How can the dealer optimize this process?

Question2: Which service is running in an SOA environment that is not defined in a service registry and is built without proper governance or controls?

Question3: Customer satisfaction with a new and rather complex product introduced by a company is extremely poor and is affecting sales of the product. The call center is taking too long to handle questions and product experts are not always easily accessible. The goal is to quickly reduce customer complaints.
Which actions should be recommended?

Question4: At which two points in SOA communication are registries used? (Choose two.)

Question5: Which people, organizational or technology factors would positively impact the readiness for SOA and its success?

Question6: Why is defining appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) important for the success of an SOA?

Question7: What does the SOAP specification define?

Question8: How can a company enforce adherence to the SOA policies that have been defined?

Question9: How do Web 2.0 applications communicate with SOA services?

Question10: Which factor could positively impact the readiness for and success of SOA?

Question11: When is the location of the service provider first determined in the SOA lifecycle?

Question12: What is a primary need for implementing SOA governance?

Question13: Which statement describes the importance of SOA governance?

Question14: Organizations that do not adopt SOA will experience which outcome?

Question15: What is a role of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in SOA management?

Question16: A business has been 'doing' SOA for a while and is becoming disillusioned with the results. They are not seeing the Return on Investment (ROI) they expected even though they have created several hundred services.
What is the likely cause of this problem?

Question17: Which organization has the greatest need for SOA governance?

Question18: Which two statements about security considerations in an SOA environment are true? (Choose two.)

Question19: How can disparate services communicate with each other in an SOA?

Question20: A company has prioritized their most important requirements for SOA to be the need to speed up integration, reduce application redundancy and provide the flexibility to change service implementations.
Which type of project should be recommended?

Question21: Which people, organizational or technology factors negatively impact the adoption of SOA?

Question22: When services are identified based on isolated applications rather than the business, which problem may result?

Question23: Why is business and IT alignment so important to SOA?

Question24: Which requirement is fulfilled by dynamic management of services during the execution in SOA?

Question25: What does the information in the service registry support?

Question26: Which activity is required to successfully implement SOA governance?

Question27: Which is an important decision for the adoption of SOA?

Question28: What is a method for verifying the business success of an SOA solution?

Question29: What does the WS-I Basic Profile provide for an SOA?

Question30: When releasing a new service version, which changes to the WSDL document are backward-compatible?

Question31: Which action should they take first?

Question32: What is a typical requirement in an SOA environment for determining business success?

Question33: Which role does XML play in an SOA design?

Question34: Which aspects of SOA can reduce overlap and duplication?

Question35: What is made more difficult by moving to SOA?

Question36: In a growth industry, what is the most effective technique to secure executive sponsorship from a line of business for a company's adoption of SOA?

Question37: What is the impact of a service increasing in popularity in the absence of effective governance?

Question38: In preparing to go to SOA, which governance aspect should be implemented from the beginning?

Question39: A recent strategic corporate directive is demanding a decrease in the operational budget of a cargo airline by 2%. The CIO has indicated a shift to SOA can help gain efficiencies in development costs. The company has just signed a partnership with a package delivery company that requires integration between the systems of the two companies.
When preparing for SOA adoption, what is most important to document to show Return on Investment (ROI) from the shift to SOA?

Question40: What is contained in an SOA repository as opposed to a registry?

Question41: Which situation is most appropriate for an SOA implementation?

Question42: Which approach is considered the most effective first step in ensuring funding for the service lifecycle of shared services at the enterprise level?

Question43: When starting to adopt SOA, which action should be taken early to help drive acceptance and success?

Question44: How does the SOA governance body ensure that services are not redundant within the organization?

Question45: What provides the most value in helping developers find existing SOA services and driving reuse?

Question46: What is an SOA repository?

Question47: Why is reusability an important aspect to promoting agility in SOA?

Question48: Which statement is true about a business process in the context of SOA?

Question49: A company has implemented a number of business processes using SOA services. How do they determine if their new processes are helping the organization to achieve its business objectives?

Question50: In the context of SOA and Business Process Management (BPM), what demonstrates flexibility in a business process?

Question51: In which situation would a manufacturing plant most likely choose to use an SOA approach for their Customer Order Analysis and Tracking System?

Question52: Which standard describes the interface for Web services?

Question53: What will the IBM SOA Assessment Tool help to define?

Question54: What is one architectural principle surrounding SOA?

Question55: A satellite television service company is starting an SOA project to support an upcoming advertising campaign for high-definition television service.
What is the most effective way to ensure that the business issues drive the technical implementation and achieve anticipated Return on Investment (ROI)?

Question56: Which is a role of an SOA governance body?

Question57: What is a key difference between a component and a service?

Question58: Which statement is true about a business process in the context of Business Process Management (BPM)?

Question59: When starting the journey to SOA, which action should be taken first?