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An online bookseller wants to extend its reach by providing a Web service for pricing used books. The current internal Web application is hosted on a mainframe. The new service must provide the same capabilities and qualities of service to external users. What are the appropriate design patterns to use?
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While defining the non-functional requirements for a company, an SOA Architect wants to make use of existing patterns. Which specification should be chosen to address service performance?
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A hospital had fully federated its patient databases when patient privacy laws were passed. The CIO expects more regulation in the future. Which high level design pattern should the SOA Designer use to best address this nonfunctional requirement?
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The IT organization within a large enterprise is convinced that adopting SOA would significantly improve their response time to business requests for new functionality. Which statement about SOA governance is true for this organization at this stage of its SOA adoption?
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A mobile phone company uses SOA to create internal applications for its call centers, partners, and customers. The organization is beginning to establish SOA governance and has enlisted the services of an SOA Solution Designer. As part of an audit of their current environment, it is found that they are achieving very low reuse of services and data entities. Further investigation reveals that duplicate services and data entities have been created. In which phase of the SOA Governance and Management Method should this problem be initially addressed and which action should be taken?
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An IT organization within a large global enterprise is convinced that adopting SOA would significantly improve their alignment to business requests for new functionality but they have questions regarding SOA governance. Which statement about SOA governance is true?
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A retail online commerce company uses SOA to create internal applications for its call centers, partners, and customers. As they matured, they began to look at establishing SOA governance and enlisted the services of an SOA Designer. After an audit of the current environment, it was found that they were achieving very low reuse of services and data entities. Further investigation revealed that duplicate services and data entities were being created. In which phase of the SOA Governance and Management Method should this problem have been initially addressed and which action should have been taken?
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A company is evaluating how to implement single sign-on authentication in an HTTP-based environment. The goal is to allow them as service provider A to redirect to an outside service provider B and pass along information that proves the user is already authenticated. Which specification most accurately addresses the requirement?
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An SOA Solution Designer's recommendation for a financial institution is to use a separate gateway and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) component. The decision considered a number of factors including the organizations current IT environment, staff skills, and non-functional requirements. However, the client has investigated using a more powerful single SOA appliance as a gateway and ESB to save money. Which action should be taken?
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An SOA project implementation is underway in a large government organization. The development, testing, staging, and production environments have been installed and configured. Each environment consists of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a registry and repository, a Web server, application servers, and Business Process Engine (BPEL). With only weeks before the project goes live with a business critical application, what should be recommended?