IBM Architectural Design of SOA Set 1

The agents of a financial clearing house use several applications that reside in CICS, an application server and a customer management system developed in-house. These applications all provide their own interaction services using different protocols and UIs. Which pattern is the most appropriate for an SOA implementation?

The employees of a large insurance firm use several applications that reside in CICS. There is also an existing application server and an in-house developed customer management system. Each application provides its own interaction services using different protocols and UIs. Which pattern is the most appropriate to create unified access to the existing applications?

At an organization, some standards-based technologies have been adopted around a J2EE application server. There is now a need to provide multi-channel access to existing service providers. Which product should be used for service connectivity in this design?

A customer wants to create a View Statement Service. Data is stored in VSAM files on System z and the files can be large. The data is archived quarterly, so retrieval time can be significant. Furthermore, the legal view format can change over time. How should the SOA Foundation be utilized to implement the View Statement Service?

A large government organization has been making significant and well publicized mistakes resulting in citizen dissatisfaction. The root cause is analyzed and found to be inconsistency in business processes and inconsistency of data from system to system. Several systems access and store data in inconsistent ways. Which parts of the IBM platform could provide the basis for the solution to these specific issues?

A telecom company is trying to capture the business processes that comprise their customer management and provisioning applications. Additionally, they would like to do some process analysis for the purpose of optimizing the interactions between these applications. Which tool, or tools, best fits this situation?

A government agency has decided to use code generation to generate the portions of the services, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and consumer code that is consistent for each service. Which statement is true about this decision?

The SOA Designer for a large corporation has been assigned the responsibility of defining the services for the purchasing area. The SOA Designer identifies the business needs and background information from the relevant stakeholder use cases. It is important that 95% of purchasing requests are processed within four hours. Which approach should be followed by the SOA Designer?

An SOA Designer for a bank is identifying candidate services for realization. They have determined that the central office and the regional office share the same process, "Open Account", which includes three steps "Account Data Collection", "Account Verification", and "Account Activation". There is an existing customer CICS application for "Account Information Input", "Account Setup", and "Account Inquiry" functionality and an existing SAP system for General Ledger which includes a "Create Account" function. Which are most likely candidates as services in this scenario?

A government department has been directed to make sure that its agencies can share data so they can handle crises effectively. Laboring under a prior directive to migrate to SOA, the Chief Architect is looking for the best way to incorporate this latest directive. What should the SOA Designer recommend?