Multiple choice Questions and Answers on Managing and Monitoring SOA of Cloud Computing for Freshers

1. Which of the following products have SOA management tool ?

a) HP Software and Solutions OpenView SOA Manager
b) IBM Tivoli Framework Composite Application Manager
c) Oracle BPEL Process Manager
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d

Explanation: These products have SOA tools for network management.

2. Point out the wrong statement:

a) A service in SOMF that is granular and very narrow in scope is referred to as an atomic service
b) An atomic service can be decomposed into smaller services that provide a useful function
c) SOA describes a distributed collection of services performing business process functions
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: A collection of composite services that would form a process module is referred to as a service cluster.

3. Which of the following is an automated SOA problem-resolution package ?

a) AppSight
b) LISA
c) CoreFirst
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: AppSight has root cause analysis services.

4. Which of the following is a SOA transaction manager ?

a) AppSight
b) LISA
c) CoreFirst
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: c

Explanation: Enterprise SOA Testing platform specializes in testing Web service components that are used in SOA.

5. Point out the wrong statement:

a) Service clusters may be composed of both atomic services and composite services
b) Large functions such as payroll modules would normally be atomic SOA services
c) A composite service is usually organized as a hierarchical topology and is multi-functional or a coarse-grained entity
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: The Enterprise Service Bus is another example of a composite service.

6. Which of the following present a particular challenge in the area of SOA ?

a) Configuration management
b) Change management
c) Virtualization
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d

Explanation: Virtualization will continue to challenge SOA management software well into the future.

7. Which of the following discovery service can map SOA transactions and dependencies ?

a) CA Wily SOA Solution
b) CSA Wily SOA Solution
c) ESB Wily SOA Solution
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: CA Wily SOA Solution discover components such as ESBs, Web portals, and various Web services.

8. Which of the following SOA Management System is acquired by Oracle ?

a) AmberPoint
b) HighPoint
c) NetworkPoint
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

Explanation: The SOA management software technology is dynamic, with many small vendors’ products some of which have been purchased and rolled into (or are being rolled into) larger systems.

9. SOA offers a ________ design and reusable components in large deployments.

a) physical
b) logical
c) external
d) all of the mentioned

Answer: b

Explanation: Software for monitoring and managing an SOA infrastructure plays an important role in large SOA deployments.

10. How many service types appears as a specific shape in SOMF model ?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

Answer: c

Explanation: In an SOMF model, each of these three service types (atomic, composite, and clusters) appears as a specific shape, and connections are made between them.