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Test664, SOA Fundamentals : 000-664 Exam
Test Information:
• Number of questions: 54
• Time allowed in minutes: 90
• Required passing score: 67%

Related certifications:
• IBM Certified SOA Associate
• IBM Certified Administrator for SOA Solutions – WebSphere Process Server V6.0

Exam Topics Include:
• The Value of SOA
• SOA Concepts
• Basic SOA Architecture
• SOA Management
• Preparing for SOA

1.Which business factor least promotes a trend towards SOA?
A.The forces of change B.Enterprise reconstruction C.Industry deconstruction D.Organizational stability Correct:D
2.Which two are barriers to the adoption of SOA?
A.An existing component infrastructure
B.A deliberate, wellconceived path from the “asis” to the “tobe” goal
C.A failure to collaborate across product units or divisions
D.Time spent in facetoface customer meetings E.The corporate tendency to just make it work Correct:C E
3.Which SOA entry point most accurately matches the following sentence? “Start by modeling an underperforming process, remove bottlenecks, then simulate and deploy the optimized process.” A.People
B.Process
C.Connectivity D.Information E.Reuse Correct:B
4.Which SOA implementation change needs proper versioning of services?
A.New operations to existing service B.Relocation of UDDI registries C.Changes to service implementation D.Changes to transport implementation Correct:A
5.What is the most important business and technical benefit to an SOA?
A.Standardized integration of diverse and complex business systems B.Ability to respond quickly to change and gain a competitive advantage C.Justify the cost of investment in IT resources
D.True realtime performance of critical business applications E.Loyal customers and improved enduser experience Correct:B
6.Which is a true factor that poses a challenge to SOA adoption by organizations?
A.Stable and consistent technical standards
B.Colocation of service components
C.Universal interoperability amongst different platforms D.Defining services with appropriate granularity Correct:D
7.Which three are benefits that SOA can provide to the IT community?
A.Homogenizes the IT environment
B.Promotes reuse of services

C.Promotes flexible solutions
D.Regulates the products that can be used in the IT environment
E.Justifies investment in IT more clearly
F.Increases traffic and throughput of business applications
Correct:B C E
8.IBM, in partnership with Mercer Management Consulting, has identified three core businesscentric SOA starting points and two ITcentric starting points. What are two ITcentric starting points from the answer choices?
A.People B.Process C.Connectivity D.Policy E.Reuse Correct:C E
9.Which two people or technology factors could have a negative impact on a companys readiness for SOA?
A.An understanding that SOA requires a paradigm shift towards more flexible business models
B.Resistance to change in the organization C.Empowerment of an SOA governance body D.Support of senior executives
E.A vision of SOA that is not balanced with the delivery capabilities of the IT department
Correct:B E
10.Which four are barriers to the adoption of SOA? A.Seeking customer input when inventing new products B.Obsession with time to market
C.A risktaking management style
D.Organizational silos
E.Unskilled partners
F.A limited pool of local talent
G.Focusing on new market opportunities
Correct:B D E F
11.Which factor is the least likely key business driver in deciding to adopt an SOA?
A.The existing technology represents an organic infrastructure that is simply too expensive or complex to maintain.
B.The existing system is exhibited proudly as evidence that the company is at the forefront of dataprocessing technology.
C.The existing system fails to offer the capabilities that the myriad of new business challenges require. D.There are massive cultural changes occurring in business mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, and upsizing.
Correct:B
12.Which two people or technology factors have a positive impact on a companys readiness for
SOA?
A.The clear division between the language used by the business operations community and the technical

jargon of the IT community
B.Focusing on the technical issues and not considering the organizational issues
C.Finding an enterprise approach that allows business leaders and IT to meet in the middle
D.Unlocking new ways to address the issue of businessdriven software changes and implementation
E.An existing investment in richfeature software technologies
Correct:C D
13.An online music store lets customers listen to the first part of songs for an album. If they buy the song, it is downloaded to their computer. Which three are the best services?
A.Open the music store B.View songs on an album C.Listen to a song clip D.Buy a song
E.Listen to an album F.Print a receipt Correct:B C D
14.Which standard specifies how integrity and confidentiality can be enforced on Web services?
A.WSSecurity B.WSEncryption C.WSDL D.WSRP Correct:A
15.Which two are part of identifying services?
A.Business analysis
B.Interviews with developers
C.Business process decomposition
D.Publishing existing public methods as services E.Wrapping existing applications in adapters Correct:A C
16.If an existing service is replaced with a lowercost service having a comparable interface, which statement is true?
A.The new service can be used once the WSDL is updated to invoke it. B.The new service can be swapped in without changing client logic.
C.The new service needs to be installed in the enterprise service bus (ESB) so it can be executed by each client.
D.Clients of the old service will need to be redeployed to bind them to the new service.
Correct:B
17.Which two are accurate descriptions of the transactional capabilities of SOA? A.A transactional service updates shared data while maintaining transactional integrity. B.Transactions in SOA exemplify the need for multitier disconnected operations.
C.Since there is always one instance of a transaction associated with a client, it maintains conversational
state.
D.Loosecoupling makes transaction support easier in SOA.
E.The transactional capabilities of SOA are not covered by the Web Services specifications.

Correct:A B
18.An SOA business analyst documents a business process. The SOA analyst must describe the business process as:
A.an enterprise service bus (ESB).
B.a sequence of software deployments.
C.an XML Web service necessary to fulfill a business task. D.a composition of one or more business services. Correct:D
19.What is the key function(s) of the SOA registry?
A.To facilitate reuse by providing storage for all design and implementation artifacts
B.To provide functions for authentication and authorization of users
C.To assign people to specific instances of a process by using staff queries
D.To dynamically support publishing, locating, and governing the use of business services
Correct:D
20.If two companies each have a concept of a CD, one being a Certificate of Deposit financial instrument and the other being Compact Disc music media, how can they both interact within the same SOA without problems?
A.Bind the data to separate WSDL ports.
B.Use a SOAP envelope to differentiate the data.
C.Coordinate naming within each enterprise service bus (ESB) to ensure uniqueness. D.Qualify the data using XML namespaces.
Correct:D
21.Which statement describes a Web service?
A.It is the realization of a business process, available for use within the same organization. B.It is a business function that can be invoked using standard HTML.
C.It is an XML document containing WSDL service definitions for reuse across organizations. D.It is a standardsbased, crossplatform, messageoriented implementation of a service. Correct:D
22.What are two examples of a restaurant’s business processes?
A.The restaurant manager hires five persons for the waitstaff.
B.A food critic publishes a newspaper column about the restaurant. C.A bank teller dispenses cash to a customer to buy lunch.
D.A waitperson takes a menu order, submits the order, and delivers food dishes. E.The waitstaff donates spare time to work in the kitchen of a homeless shelter. Correct:A D
23.Which statement most accurately describes the role that XML plays in an SOA that is implemented via Web services?
A.The enterprise service bus (ESB) communicates via XML protocols.
B.UDDI is the mechanism for delivering messages written in XML over a network. C.Service messages and interfaces are constructed and published using XML. D.WSDL is written in XHTML and details the methods that can be invoked. Correct:C
24.Which standard allows services to be requested, along with any related data?

A.XHTML
B.ESB C.UDDI D.SOAP Correct:D
25.Loose coupling in SOA is possible because of support from which two components?
A.Business process models
B.SOA governance
C.The enterprise service bus (ESB) D.JDBC adapter
E.Web service interfaces
Correct:C E
26.Which business interaction model approach, if any, is the recommended SOA approach that leads to business agility?
A.All points integrate in a pointtopoint integration, where technology aware bridges are built between application components.
B.All points integrate once to the network, publish their services and make service requests. C.All points integrate to a hub once and have subscription to a limited number of services.
D.SOA does not strictly recommend one approach since the approach can vary depending on several factors.
Correct:B
27.When does a company attain competitive business agility?
A.When the same communication mechanism is used by all services, thus leading to a fast response time
B.When a change in business process doesn’t require a change to application programming logic
C.When the number of services is less than the number of individual business needs
D.When the services of the company are faster than the comparable services of the competitors
Correct:B
28.SOA can provide the most improvement in competitiveness and productivity if the business function:
A.has a singleplatform environment.
B.is currently highlyoptimized in terms of performance.
C.can be easily integrated in case there are future acquisitions. D.is already defined as a Web application.
Correct:C
29.What is the impact of NOT adopting an SOA?
A.Web services cannot be exposed. B.Acquisition and divestiture are more difficult. C.Reusable components cannot be created. D.Geographical expansion is easier. E.Organizational silos will exist.
Correct:B E
30.A bank’s loan processing begins by the customer filling out a loan application on paper and the clerk entering this information in a secured database. The bank aims to improve this process by

enabling customers to fill out applications online and automating entering the information to the
secured database. The bank IT environment is not multiplatform and the same programming language is used universally. Which two statements are true?
A.The company cannot benefit from SOA adoption since it does not have a multiplatform environment. B.The company cannot benefit from SOA adoption since it does not have a multiprogramming language environment.
C.Representing the task of adding information to the database as a service in SOA makes it easily available.
D.The task of filling out applications involves human interaction and can benefit by being represented as the starting point of a composite SOA process.
E.SOA can be adopted only after the bank enables filling out applications online.
Correct:C D

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