IBM Test 667, Architectural Design of SOA Solutions Set 3

A bank has extended their corporate investment banking division to include individual consumer investment accounts. For a variety of reasons there was not a tight coupling of the bank's retail banking division to the new individual investment accounts. Therefore each division has different schemas for consumers and accounts. As part of an SOA initiative around customer insight, the bank now wants to cross-sell accounts across these two divisions. Which approach should the SOA Designer use to provide a single, unified and trusted view of customer data across these divisions?

An Architect is developing the security architecture for an organization where there are currently two security registries - RACF for CICS applications and LDAP for Web applications. The CICS applications are currently being accessed internally via MQ with user credentials in the MQ header. As part of an SOA initiative, the legacy applications are being exposed to partners via Web services on WebSphere Application Server using JCA to access the CICS applications. At which point in the architecture is the credential mapping performed?

The Chief Architect at a large company requested an audit of SOA projects to ensure no design aspects had been overlooked. A key finding was that management of services was not present in any of the designs reviewed. What should an SOA Designer suggest?

A new business process is being written that will call a number of new or existing Web services. As part of the SOA quality management process, which activity is the most appropriate?

A company is implementing a new Web service within an SOA. The service will provide the ability to access customer details as part of a number of high-volume business processes. Which key quality assurance activity is needed as part of the Deploy phase of the SOA lifecycle?

A service owner has developed a new version of an address validation service at a travel company. How is the service registry and repository used to govern the new version release?

A company has multiple services with each having a different requirement for availability and response time. Which environment should the Architect recommend?

An SOA project consists of services deployed in a heterogeneous distributed environment that includes an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). When adding a requirement for routing management, how should it be implemented?

A municipal utility company, with a well-managed IT environment, created a Customer Query Service as a general purpose customer lookup service to provide one or more customer records associated with a variety of search criteria. The service is now used by both the call center and self-service Web application supporting power outage management. In the past, each application used different technologies to retrieve the information. Which additional management is required when introducing this service?

An organization is releasing functionality updates to portlets and new services on a daily cycle. However, code deployment is taking three days. This delay is leading to reliability and availability issues with the production environment. Apart from exploring the possibility of introducing a less aggressive release cycle, how can these issues be addressed?