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SOA S90.08B Exam Overview:

Certification Vendor:	Arcitura Education
Exam Name:	SOA Design & Architecture Lab with Services & Microservices
Exam Number:	S90.08B
Available Languages:	English
Related Certifications:	SOA Architect SOA Certified Professional
Real Exam Qty:	17
Exam Format:	Multiple-choice questions, Scenario-based questions
Exam Duration:	90 minutes
Sample Questions:
Exam Way:	Proctored exam available through test centres or online
Pre Condition:	Recommended foundational knowledge in SOA and microservices principles (e.g., completion of relevant Arcitura courses)
Official Syllabus URL:	https://www.arcitura.com/

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Common Questions About the SOA Design & Architecture Lab with Services & Microservices Exam

SOA Design & Architecture Lab with Services & Microservices Sample Questions:

Question 1

Refer to Exhibit.

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 with any design standards. Therefore, each of these services has a different data model for representing invoice data.
Currently, each of these three services has a different 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.) Assuming that the Invoice service, InvProc service and Proclnv service are part of the same service inventory, what steps would be required to fully apply the Official Endpoint pattern?

A. One of the invoice-related services needs to be chosen as the official service providing invoice data access capabilities and logic from the other two services needs to be moved to execute within the context of the official Invoice service. Service Consumers A, B, and C then need to be redesigned to only access the chosen invoice-related service. Service Consumer D also needs to be redesigned to not access the shared accounting database directly, but to also perform its data access by interacting with the official invoice-related service. The Service Abstraction principle can be further applied to hide the existence of the shared accounting database and other implementation details from current and future service consumers.
B. One of the invoice-related services needs to be chosen as the official service providing invoice data access capabilities. Because Service Consumer D does not rely on an invoice-related service, it is not affected by the Official Endpoint pattern and can continue to access the accounting database directly. The Service Loose Coupling principle can be further applied to decouple Service Consumers A, B, and C from the shared accounting database and other implementation details.
C. Because Service Consumers A, B, and C are already carrying out their data access via published contracts, they are not affected by the Official Endpoint pattern. Service Consumer D needs to be redesigned so that it does not access the shared accounting database directly, but instead performs its data access by interacting with the official invoice-related service. The Service Abstraction principle can be further applied to hide the existence of the shared accounting database and other implementation details from current and future service consumers.
D. One of the invoice-related services needs to be chosen as the official service providing invoice data access capabilities. Service Consumers A, B, and C then need to be redesigned to only access the chosen invoice-related service. Because Service Consumer D does not rely on an invoice-related service, it is not affected by the Official Endpoint pattern and can continue to access the accounting database directly. The Service Abstraction principle can be further applied to hide the existence of the shared accounting database and other implementation details from current and future service consumers.

Question 2

Refer to Exhibit.

Service A, Service B, and Service C are entity services, each designed to access the same shared legacy system. Service A manages order entities, Service B manages invoice entities, and Service C manages customer entities. Service A, Service B, and Service C are REST services and are frequently reused by different service compositions. The legacy system uses a proprietary file format that Services A, B, and C need to convert to and from.
You are told that compositions involving Service A, Service B, and Service C are unnecessarily complicated due to the fact that order, invoice, and customer entitles are all related to each other. For example, an order has a customer, an invoice has an order, and so on. This results In calls to multiple services to reconstruct a complete order document. You are asked to architect a solution that will simplify the composition logic by minimizing the number of services required to support simple business functions like order management or bill payment. Additionally, you are asked to reduce the amount of redundant data transformation logic that is found in Services A, B, and C.
How will you accomplish these goals?

A. The Enterprise Service Bus pattern can be applied to introduce an intermediate processing layer between Services A, B, and C and the legacy system. The enterprise service bus can be used to consolidate and execute the transformation logic currently held within the services. The Content Negotiation pattern can be applied to return a content link to related entity data to a service consumer, which allows for simpler and more dynamic composition logic. The service consumer effectively invokes the relevant service through the returned link to obtain the related entity data.
B. The Legacy Wrapper pattern can be applied to create a service to expose the legacy system through a standardized service contract. The core logic of the wrapping service would provide all necessary data transformation functionality to convert between inventory-standardized data representations and the proprietary format. The Lightweight Endpoint pattern can be applied to establish lightweight capabilities that can return related entity data directly to service consumers.
C. The Enterprise Service Bus pattern can be applied to introduce an intermediate processing layer between Services A, B, and C and the legacy system. The enterprise service bus can be used to consolidate and execute the necessary transformation logic currently held within the services. The Endpoint Redirection pattern can be applied to re-route calls from one service to another to provide access to related entity data.
D. The Legacy Wrapper pattern can be applied to create a service to expose the legacy system through a standardized service contract. The core logic of the wrapping service would provide all necessary data transformation functionality to convert between inventory-standardized data representations and the proprietary format. The Endpoint Redirection pattern can be applied to return a link to related entity data to a service consumer, which allows for simpler and more dynamic composition logic. The service consumer effectively invokes the relevant service through the returned link to obtain the related entity data.

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