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Question 1

Service Consumer A sends a message with a business document to Service A (1), which writes the business document to Database A (2). Service A then forwards the business document to Service B (3), which writes the business document to Database B (4). Service B then responds to Service A with a message containing a failure or success code (5) after which Service A responds to Service Consumer A with a message containing a failure or success code (6). Upon receiving the message, Service Consumer A updates a log table in Database B (7). The log entry is comprised of the entire business document. Database A is dedicated to the Service A service architecture and Database B is a shared database.

You are told that the database updates performed by Service A and Service B must be either both successful or they cannot happen at all. The database update performed by Service Consumer A must happen after it is given the outcome of the database updates performed by Service A and Service B . Given that Service Consumer A must also update Database B as part of this service composition architecture, how is it possible to fulfill these requirements?

AThe State Repository pattern can be applied so that Service A writes the business document data to a separate state database until it receives a response message from Service B . If the response message contains a success code, Service A writes the business document to Database A . If the response contains a failure code, Service A discards the data that was written to the state database.

BThe Service Data Replication pattern can be applied to Service Consumer A and Service B so that separate dedicated databases can be established allowing Service Consumer A to make updates independently of Service B . Service A is simply redesigned to not write the business document to Database A until after it receives a message containing a success code from Service B .

CThe Atomic Service Transaction pattern can be applied to encompass Service A, Service B and Service Consumer A . This will guarantee that all of the actions performed by the service composition participants will either be successful or will be rolled back if anyone is not successful.

DNone of the above.

Answer : D

Question 2

Services A, B, and C are non-agnostic task services. Service A and Service B use the same shared state database to defer their state data at runtime. An assessment of these three services reveals that each contains some agnostic logic, but because it is bundled together with the non-agnostic logic, the agnostic logic cannot be made available for reuse. The assessment also determines that because Service A and Service B and the shared state database are each located in physically separate environments, the remote communication required for Service A and Service B to interact with the shared state database is causing an unreasonable decrease in runtime performance.

You are asked to redesign this architecture in order to increase the opportunity for agnostic service logic to be reused and in order to decrease the runtime processing demands so that performance can be improved. What steps can be taken to achieve these goals?

AThe Enterprise Service Bus pattern can be applied to establish an environment whereby the Process Abstraction and Process Centralization patterns are naturally applied, resulting in a clean separation of non-agnostic task services from newly designed agnostic services that are further shaped into reusable services by the application of the Service Reusability principle.

BThe Process Centralization pattern can be applied, resulting in a redesign effort where agnostic logic is removed from the three task services so that they only encapsulate non-agnostic logic. The agnostic logic is then moved to one or more new agnostic services that are shaped into reusable services by the application of the Service Reusability principle. The Process Abstraction pattern is then applied to the redesigned task services Service A and Service B, so that their logic is physically centralized, turning them into orchestrated task services.

CThe Process Abstraction pattern can be applied, resulting in a redesign effort where agnostic logic is removed from the three task services so that they only encapsulate non-agnostic logic. The agnostic logic is then moved to one or more new agnostic services that are shaped into reusable services by the application of the Service Reusability principle. The Orchestration pattern can be further applied to establish an environment whereby the Process Centralization pattern is naturally applied to Services A and B and the State Repository pattern in naturally applied to further help avoid remote communication by providing a local and centralized state database that can be shared by both services.

DNone of the above.

Answer : C

Question 3

You are told that in this service composition architecture, all four services are exchanging invoice related data in an XML format. The services in Service Inventory A are standardized to use a specific XML schema for invoice data. Design standards were not applied to the service contracts used in Service Inventory B, which means that each service uses a different XML schema for the same kind of data. Database A and Database B can only accept data in the Comma Separated Value (CSV) format and therefore cannot accept XML formatted data. What steps can be taken to enable the planned data exchange between these four services?

AThe Data Model Transformation pattern can be applied so that data model transformation logic is positioned between Service A and Service B, between Service A and Service C, and between Service C and Service D . The Data Format Transformation pattern can be applied so that data format transformation logic is positioned between the Service B logic and Database A and between the Service D logic and Database B .

BThe Data Model Transformation pattern can be applied so that data model transformation logic is positioned between Service A and Service C and between Service C and Service D . The Data Format Transformation pattern can be applied so that data format transformation logic is positioned between the Service B logic and Database A and between the Service D logic and Database B .

CThe Data Model Transformation pattern can be applied so that data model transformation logic is positioned between Service A and Service C . The Protocol Bridging pattern can be applied so that protocol bridging logic is positioned between Service A and Service B and between the Service C and Service D . The Data Format Transformation pattern can be applied so that data format transformation logic is positioned between the Service B logic and Database A and between the Service D logic and Database B .

DNone of the above.

Answer : A

Question 4

Currently, due to the increasing amount of concurrent access by service consumers, the runtime performance of both the Client and Vendor services has worsened and has therefore reduced their effectiveness as service composition members. Additionally, a review of the logic of both services has revealed that some of the business rules used by the Client and Vendor services are actually the same. What steps can be taken to improve performance and reduce redundant business rule logic?

AThe Rules Centralization pattern can be applied by extracting the business rule logic from the Client and Vendor services and placing it into a new Rules service, thereby reducing the redundancy of business rules logic. The Redundant Implementation pattern can then be applied to establish a scalable Rules service that is capable of supporting concurrent access from many service consumers.

BThe Redundant Implementation pattern can be applied to the Client and Vendor services, thereby establishing duplicate service implementations that can be accessed when a service reaches its runtime usage threshold. The Intermediate Routing pattern can be further applied to provide load balancing logic that can, at runtime, determine which of the redundant service implementations is the least busy for a given service consumer request.

CThe Rules Centralization pattern can be applied to isolate business rules logic into a central and reusable Rules service. Additionally, the Service Abstraction principle can be applied to hide the implementation details of new the Rules service.

DNone of the above.

Answer : A

Question 5

Service A is a task service that is required to carry out a series of updates to a set of databases in order to complete a task. To perform the database updates Service A must interact with three other services, each of which provides standardized data access capabilities. Service A sends its first update request message to Service B (1), which then responds with a message containing a success or failure code (2). Service A then sends its second update request message to Service C (3), which also responds with a message containing a success or failure code (4). Finally, Service A sends a request message to Service D (5), which responds with its own message containing a success or failure code (6).

You've been given a requirement that all database updates must either be completed successfully or not at all. This means that if any of the three response messages received by Service A contain a failure code, all of the updates carried out until that point must be reversed. Note that if Service A does not receive a response message back from Services B, C, or D, it must assume that a failure has occurred. How can this service composition architecture be changed to fulfill these requirements?

AThe Reliable Messaging pattern can be applied to guarantee the delivery of positive or negative acknowledgements. This way, Service A will always be informed of whether a failure condition has occurred with any of the database updates performed by Services B, C, and D . Furthermore, the Service Loose Coupling principle can be applied to ensure that the request and response messages exchanged by the services do not contain any implementation details that would indirectly couple Service A to any of the databases.

BThe Atomic Service Transaction pattern can be applied individually to Services B, C, and D so that each of these services performs its own database update within the scope of an atomic transaction. If anyone update fails, that change can be rolled back on that database. Furthermore, the Service Loose Coupling principle can be applied to ensure that Service A is kept out of the scope of the atomic transaction so that it is not negatively coupled to the proprietary database technologies that are required to enable the atomic transaction functionality.

CThe Compensating Service Transaction can be applied to Service A so that when any one response message containing a failure code is received by Service A, it can invoke exception handling logic that will log the failed database updates. The Service Loose Coupling principle can be further applied to ensure that Services B, C, or D are not indirectly coupled to the exception handling logic, especially if Service A requires additional access to Services B, C, or D in order to collect more information for logging purposes.

DNone of the above.

Answer : D

Question 6

Service A is a utility service that provides generic data access logic to a database that contains data that is periodically replicated from a shared database (1). Because the Standardized Service Contract principle was applied to the design of Service A, its service contract has been fully standardized. The service architecture of Service A is being accessed by three service consumers. Service Consumer A accesses a component that is part of the Service A implementation by invoking it directly (2). Service Consumer B invokes Service A by accessing its service contract (3). Service Consumer C directly accesses the replicated database that is part of the Service A implementation (4). You've been told that the shared database will soon be replaced with a new database product that will have new data models and new replication technology. How can the Service A architecture be changed to avoid negative impacts that may result from the replacement of the database and to establish a service architecture in which negative forms of coupling can be avoided in the future?

AThe Contract Centralization pattern can be applied to force all service consumers to access the Service A architecture via its published service contract. This will prevent negative forms of coupling that could lead to problems when the database is replaced. The Service Abstraction principle can then be applied to hide underlying service implementation details so that future service consumers cannot be designed to access any part of the underlying service implementation.

BThe Contract Centralization pattern can be applied to force Service Consumer C to access the Service A architecture via its published service contract. This will prevent Service Consumer A from being negatively impacted when the database is replaced in the future.

CThe Standardized Service Contract principle can be applied to force Service Consumer B to comply to the standardized service contract of Service A . As a result, the coupling between Service Consumer B and Service A is reduced. The Logic Centralization pattern can then be applied to position the logic provided by Service A as a primary access point for the database. As a result, the component within the Service A architecture abstracts the proprietary details of the database, thereby shielding Service Consumer A (and any future service consumers) from changes made to the database.

DNone of the above.

Answer : A

Question 7

Our service inventory contains the following three services that provide invoice-related data access capabilities: Invoice, InvProc, and Proclnv. These services were created at different times by different project teams and were not required to comply to any design standards. Therefore each of these services has a different data model for representing invoice data. Currently each of these three services has one service consumer: Service Consumer A accesses the Invoice service(1). Service Consumer B (2) accesses the InvProc service, and Service Consumer C (3) accesses the Proclnv service. Each service consumer invokes a data access capability of an invoice-related service, requiring that service to interact with the shared accounting database that is used by all invoice-related services (4, 5, 6). Additionally, Service Consumer D was designed to access invoice data from the shared accounting database directly (7). (Within the context of this architecture. Service Consumer D is labeled as a service consumer because it is accessing a resource that is related to the illustrated service architectures.)

A project team recently proclaimed that it has successfully applied the Contract Centralization pattern to the service inventory in which the Invoice service, InvProc service, and ProcInv service reside. Upon reviewing the previously described architecture you have doubts that this is true. After voicing your doubts to a manager, you are asked to provide specific evidence as to why the Contract Centralization is not currently fully applied. Which of the following statements provides this evidence?

AThe Contract Centralization pattern is not fully applied to the Invoice, InvProc, and ProcInv services because they are being accessed by different service consumers and because they have redundant logic that introduces denormalization into the service inventory.

BThe Contract Centralization pattern is not fully applied because Service Consumer D is accessing the shared accounting database directly.

CThe Contract Centralization pattern is not fully applied because none of the invoice-related services are carrying out data access logic via a centralized and standardized invoice service. This is primarily because the Standardized Service Contract principle was not consistently applied during the delivery processes of the individual services.

DNone of the above.

Answer : B

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