Arcitura Education SOA Design & Architecture Lab S90.09 Exam Practice Test

When Service A receives a message from Service Consumer A(1),the message is processed by Component A . This component first invokes Component B (2), which uses values from the message to query Database A in order to retrieve additional data. Component B then returns the additional data to Component A . Component A then invokes Component C (3), which interacts with the API of a legacy system to retrieve a new data value. Component C then returns the data value back to Component A . Next, Component A sends some of the data it has accumulated to Component D (4), which writes the data to a te>X file that is placed in a specific folder. Component D then waits until this file is imported into a different system via a regularly scheduled batch import. Upon completion of the import, Component D returns a success or failure code back to Component A . Component A finally sends a response to Service Consumer A (5) containing all of the data collected so far and Service Consumer A writes all of the data to Database B (6). Components A, B, C . and D belong to the Service A service architecture. Database A, the legacy system, and the file folders are shared resources within the IT enterprise.

Service A is an entity service with a service architecture that has grown over the past few years. As a result of a service inventory-wide redesign project, you are asked to revisit the Service A service architecture in order to separate the logic provided by Components B, C, and D into three different utility services without disrupting the behavior of Service A as it relates to Service Consumer A . What steps can be taken to fulfill these requirements?

Service A is a task service that sends Service B a message (2) requesting that Service B return data back to Service A in a response message (3). Depending on the response received. Service A may be required to send a message to Service C (4) for which it requires no response. Before it contacts Service B, Service A must first retrieve a list of code values from its own database (1) and then place this data into its own memory. If it turns out that it must send a message to Service C, then Service A must combine the data it receives from Service B with the data from the code value list in order to create the message it sends to Service C . If Service A is not required to invoke Service C, it can complete its task by discarding the code values. Service A and Service C reside in Service Inventory A . Service B resides in Service Inventory B . You are told that the services in Service Inventory A were designed with service contracts based on different design standards than the services in Service Inventory B . As a result, Service A and Service B use different data models to represent the data they need to exchange. Therefore, Service A and Service B cannot currently communicate. Furthermore, Service C is an agnostic service that is heavily accessed by many concurrent service consumers. Service C frequently reaches its usage thresholds during which it is not available and messages sent to it are not received. How can this service composition architecture be changed to avoid these problems?

You are an architect with a project team building services for Service Inventory A . You are told that no SLAs for Service B and Service C are available. You cannot determine how available these services will be, but it has been confirmed that both of these services support atomic transactions and the issuance of positive and negative acknowledgements. However, you also find out that the services in Service Inventory B use different data models than the services in Service Inventory A . Furthermore, recent testing results have shown that the performance of Service D is steady and reliable. However, Service D uses a different transport protocol than the services in Service Inventory A . The response time of Service A is not a primary concern, but Service Consumer A does need to be able to issue request messages to Service A 24 hours a day without disruption. What steps can be taken to fulfill these requirements?

The Client and Vendor services are agnostic services that are both currently part of multiple service compositions. As a result, these services are sometimes subjected to concurrent access by multiple service consumers. The Client service is an entity service that primarily provides data access logic to a client database but also provides some calculation logic associated with determining a client's credit rating. The Vendor service is also an entity service that provides some data access logic but can also generate various dynamic reports. After reviewing historical statistics about the runtime activity of the two services, it was discovered that the majority of concurrent runtime access is related to the processing of business rules. With the Client service, it is the calculation logic that is frequently required and with the Vendor service it is the dynamic reporting logic that needs to be accessed separately from the actual report generation.

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. What steps can be taken to solve this problem without introducing new services?

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?

Service Consumer A sends a message to Service A . Before the message arrives with Service A, it is intercepted by Service Agent A (1). which checks the message for compliance to Policy A that is required by Service A . If the message fails compliance, Service Agent A will not allow it to proceed and will instead write the message contents to a log. If the message does comply to the policy, it continues to be transmitted toward Service A, but before it arrives it is intercepted by Service Agent B (2), which validates the security credentials in the message header. If the security credential validation fails, the message is rejected and a runtime exception is raised. If the security credentials are validated, the message is sent to Service A . Upon receiving the message, Service A retrieves a data value from a database and populates the message header with this data value (3) prior to forwarding the message to Service B . Before the message arrives at Service B . it is intercepted by Service Agent C (4) which checks the message for compliance with two policies: Policy B and Policy C . Policy B is identical to Policy A that was checked by Service Agent A . To check for compliance to Policy C . Service Agent C uses the data value added by Service A . If the message complies with both of the policies, it is forwarded to Service B (5), which stores the message contents in its own database.

You are told that Policy B and Policy C have changed. Also, in order to carry out the compliance check of Policy C, Service Agent C will now require a new data value from the Service B database. How can this service composition architecture be changed to fulfill these new requirements?

Service Consumer A sends Service A a message containing a business document (1). The business document is received by Component A, which keeps the business document in memory and forwards a copy to Component B (3). Component B first writes portions of the business document to Database A (4). Component B writes the entire business document to Database B and then uses some of the data values from the business document as query parameters to retrieve new data from Database B (5). Next, Component B returns the new data back to Component A (6), which merges it together with the original business document it has been keeping in memory and then writes the combined data to Database C (7). The Service A service capability invoked by Service Consumer A requires a synchronous request-response data exchange. Therefore, based on the outcome of the last database update, Service A returns a message with a success or failure code back to Service Consumer A (8). Databases A and B are shared and Database C is dedicated to the Service A service architecture.

There are several problems with this architecture: First, the response time of Database A is often poor, resulting in Component B taking too much time to provide a response to Component A . This results in Component A consuming too many runtime resources while it holds the business document in memory and it also causes unreasonable delays in responding to Service Consumer A . Additionally, Database B is being replaced with a different database product that supports a proprietary file format. This will disable the current interaction between Component B and the new Database B . What steps can be taken to solve these problems?