soa s90-08 practice test

The application of the Intermediate Routing pattern can address which of the following needs?

• A. The need to increase the autonomy of a service due to its reliance on a shared data source.
• B. The need to perform content-based routing based upon metadata found in the message header.
• C. The need for load-balanced access to a redundantly deployed service.
• D. The need to provide pre-defined compensating logic for when an atomic service transaction fails.

Load balancing is commonly associated with which pattern?

• A. Atomic Service Transaction
• B. Intermediate Routing
• C. Service Broker
• D. Decoupled Contract

The use of the Intermediate Routing pattern typically results in:

• A. common routing logic being removed from service logic and placed into service agents
• B. common routing logic being removed from service agents and placed into a database
• C. common routing logic being physically centralized into a single service
• D. common routing logic being physically centralized into a single service composition

The application of the Intermediate Routing pattern can result in multiple service agents intercepting
a message before it arrives at its destination.

• A. True
• B. False

When applying the Asynchronous Queuing pattern you aim to establish an environment in which:

• A. an intermediate buffer exists between a service and its service consumer
• B. temporary message storage is provided in case either the service or service consumer are unavailable
• C. periodic re-transmission of a message is supported until it is successfully delivered
• D. enforcement of consistent, uninterrupted, synchronous communication between service and service consumer are guaranteed

The queue established by applying the Asynchronous Queuing pattern enables service consumer and
service to revert to a stateless condition before a data exchange has fully completed.

• A. True
• B. False

The Reliable Messaging pattern requires:

• A. the use of standardized service contracts in order to enable message atomic transaction details to be carried in the message header
• B. a framework for temporarily persisting messages and issuing acknowledgements
• C. the application of the Official Endpoint pattern in order to enable acknowledgement features
• D. a framework capable of bridging disparate messaging protocols in order to exchange schemas between compatible services

Which of the following statements are false?

• A. Using the Reliable Messaging pattern can improve the quality of messaging-based communication.
• B. The Reliable Messaging pattern is applied to databases, not services.
• C. The Reliable Messaging pattern is one of the patterns that can be associated with the Enterprise Service Bus compound pattern.
• D. The Reliable Messaging pattern is always applied together with the Atomic Service Transaction pattern.

Assuming the Reliable Messaging pattern is successfully applied, which of the following statements is
correct?

• A. A service agent intercepts and stores a message from the service consumer. The service agent then returns an acknowledgement back to the service consumer. Next, the service agent forwards the message to the service and when it receives an acknowledgement back from the service, it deletes the message.
• B. A service agent intercepts and stores a message from the service consumer. The service agent then forwards the message to the service. Next, the service agent receives an acknowledgement from the service, which it returns to the service consumer. Finally, the service agent deletes the message and related acknowledgements.
• C. The service consumer stores the message and forwards it to a service agent, which issues an acknowledgement back to the service consumer. The service agent then forwards the message to the service and when it receives an acknowledgement from the service, the service agent informs the service consumer so that it can delete the message and the acknowledgement.
• D. None of the above.

In the message exchange framework established by the application of the Reliable Messaging
pattern, what roles are typically fulfilled by service agents?

• A. service agents can process positive acknowledgements
• B. service agents can process negative acknowledgements
• C. service agents can load balance messages
• D. service agents can route messages based on their content