In which situation would a manufacturing plant most likely choose to use an SOA approach for

their Customer Order Analysis and Tracking System?

A. The company wanted development and operations to be as simple as possible.

B. The company wanted to break down department silos and encourage everyone to use the same set of tools.

C. Most of the company's processes were manual or document-centric with little opportunity for automation.

D. The legacy system had grown in such a way that it was not easy to update and could not handle the emerging business demands.

What describes a task within a modeled business process?

A. The description of steps required to complete a unit of work

B. Each task represents a work item performed by a system or human

C. The transition that takes place for the business process to continue

D. When a human completes a task it is marked complete allowing the process to proceed

Which people, organizational or technology factors would positively impact the readiness for SOA and its success?

A. Excess hardware capacity

B. Short-term revenue expectations

C. Business unit executives avoid disruptive innovations

D. Business partners that have the necessary skills and capabilities

What represents the business objective(s) to be achieved through SOA governance?

A. Attainment of business agility and competitive advantage

B. Assures the alignment of the business strategy with its SOA initiatives

C. Assures that service entities perform to the level and response times agreed upon

D. Assures the value of SOA to the business by focusing on the design and implementation of services

What describes the role of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?

A. An adapter that exposes back end functionality of legacy systems

B. A routing and mediation component that loosely couples service interfaces

C. A routing and mediation component that loosely couples service implementations

D. A component where transformation and aggregation are used to implement service interfaces