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A retail catalog companys printing and mailing expenses are growing much more rapidly than revenue. Each time they update their database, they ship more catalogs and customers call in with more corrections. Which evaluation and recommendation should the SOA Designer make?
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A company wants to integrate a number of existing best-of-breed applications by implementing service facades and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The initial scenario involves the transfer of order information between a number of these backend services depending on business rules. An SOA Designer is asked to capture the functional requirements. What is the most appropriate starting point?
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A government agency wants to ensure the selected patterns and code standards set down by their SOA governance body are adhered to. Which type of tool will support this?
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A company has an existing message-based middleware solution that allows exchanging business information among several applications using a topic-based publish-subscribe integration pattern. As part of its SOA strategy, the company is now embarking on service-enabling the applications and wants to employ the publish-subscribe pattern using Web services technology. Which Web services specification best addresses this need?
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What is the next step while architecting an SOA solution after documenting the business processes?
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The SOA reference architecture identifies core services including Interaction, Process, Information, Partner, Access, and Infrastructure. What is one valid reason for excluding one or more of these services in an SOA?
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A team is evaluating the maturity of a customer's solution architecture relative to the IBM SOA Foundation. It is discovered that the customer has invested heavily in an internally-developed Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and that their ESB has functionality expected to be found in other SOA Foundation services, especially Process Services, Business Services, and Information Services. Which recommendation should be made?
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A midsize city is experiencing rapid growth that requires extensive changes in city land use regulations. Under this pressure, many land use disputes are getting caught in endless inter- departmental exchanges to complete data collection using a variety of completion criteria. This is angering both citizens and land developers. Which approach to SOA is likely to have the greatest impact?
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A large airline has decided to use SOA as a means to reduce costs through the use of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) based infrastructure. The IT strategy group has purchased sophisticated messaging middleware and prototyped some services related to accessing passenger information. The airline needs to decide what to do next. Which recommendation should be made?
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A mortgage loan provider currently has legacy applications utilized by a network of branches and franchised agents. They want to expand by adding a new channel to allow independent mortgage brokers to submit mortgage loan applications. They realize they must provide a differentiating offering to the independent mortgage brokers to attract participants and grow the new channel. How can SOA benefit their requirement?