A group of SOA Architects is discussing strategies to improve re-use without impacting the existing project deadlines. Which action is most likely to achieve the stated objective?
A manufacturing company has completed an SOA proof of concept using ten services to integrate several existing internal applications. The solution includes failover for the various services. During a power outage, three of the five application servers were non-operational. While the system never totally failed, IT operations notified the business analyst of the failure and recovery. In looking at the performance measurement metric trends during the outage, the business analyst noticed that one of the ten services was negatively impacted and could have violated potential Service Level Agreements (SLAs). How should the SOA Designer address this architectural issue(s) during assessment and analysis for the final production system?
A retail bank executive wants the IT department to re-implement current bank teller applications as an SOA. The executive wants to be in production in one year and asks an SOA Designer to instruct IT on how to accomplish this. What should the SOA Designer recommend to the executive?
A large corporation would like to utilize an SOA reference architecture for its various solutions. The need is for a flexible layered SOA model that can be used in a variety of application-related situations. The SOA Architect is assigned to find such a model. The Architect decides that the SOA Solution Stack fits the need and explains the selection to the Chief Architect. Which statement supports the selection of the SOA Solution Stack?
A bank has decided to rewrite their payment system from CICS/VSAM to SOA/J2EE/DB2 to easily adapt to a rapidly changing market, improve reporting capability and comply with a corporate edict to migrate off CICS/VSAM. The payment process is large and complex and includes three major sub- processes (Validation, Sanctions, and Disbursement) as well as additional supporting processes (e.g. Advising, Printing, and Reporting.) The Solution Architect has determined the entire project will take more than two years. The customer requires initial results within six months. What is the first step in the roadmap that should be suggested to the client?
A large company has decided to migrate to SOA for integrating business partners with their core transaction systems. This is in preparation for establishing new partnerships that could double their revenue. An SOA Designer has been hired to provide guidance and lead the project. Which approach should the SOA Designer use to get started?
A music production company wants to develop a new way of creating and producing music. Their intent is to make it possible for musicians and technicians to collaborate remotely on new compositions. They want to explore an SOA approach. Where should the SOA Designer begin?
A mobile phone company is losing money on the process for deactivating a phone when it is reported stolen or lost due to lag time between notification and deactivation. In the current SOA solution, call center staff disable the phone via a portlet that invokes a deactivation service which calls a mainframe application. The mainframe application notifies the telecom provider to deactivate the phone. What is a likely cause of the issue and which aspect of the solution makes the problem worse?
An SOA Designer is collecting requirements for a global banking company's SOA project and discovers that various countries have different security encryption and privacy requirements. How should the SOA Designer handle this situation?