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SOA S90.09 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Arcitura Education |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | SOA Design & Architecture Lab |
| Exam Number: | S90.09 (also S90.09A) |
| Related Certifications: | Certified Microservices Architect Certified SOA Consultant Certified SOA Security Specialist |
| Exam Duration: | 90–100 |
| Exam Price: | $295 USD |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Passing Score: | 70% or 700/1000 |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 3 years |
| Real Exam Qty: | 40–70 |
| Exam Format: | Lab exercises, Scenario-based, Drag-and-drop, Design tasks, Case studies |
| Recommended Training: | SOA School Official Training SOACP Module 9 Study Kit |
| Exam Registration: | Pearson VUE Scheduling Arcitura Official Exam Registration |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored or onsite at Pearson VUE testing centers |
| Pre Condition: | Recommended: S90.01, S90.02, S90.03, S90.04, S90.05, S90.08 or equivalent knowledge; strong practical experience in SOA design |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://www.arcitura.com/soacp-gen-1/exams/ |
SOA S90.09 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Service Composition & Orchestration | 20% | - Integration & messaging patterns - Orchestration vs choreography - Composition logic & workflow design |
| SOA Governance & Security | 15% | - Scalability, reliability & performance design - Security considerations in architectural design - Design-time governance & standards compliance |
| SOA Design Principles & Patterns | 30% | - Granularity, versioning & dependency management - Standard service-orientation design patterns - Loose coupling, autonomy, reusability, composability |
| Deployment & Architecture Assessment | 10% | - SOA blueprint & enterprise architecture alignment - Trade-off analysis & decision justification |
| Service-Oriented Analysis & Design | 25% | - Requirements analysis & service identification - Service contract & interface design - Service modeling & categorization |
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SOA Design & Architecture Lab Sample Questions:
Service A is a task service that is required to carry out a series of updates to a set of
databases in order to complete a task. To perform the database updates Service A must
interact with three other services, each of which provides standardized data access
capabilities.
Service A sends its first update request message to Service B (1), which then responds
with a message containing a success or failure code (2). Service A then sends its second
update request message to Service C (3), which also responds with a message containing
a success or failure code (4). Finally, Service A sends a request message to Service D (5),
which responds with its own message containing a success or failure code (6).
You've been asked to change this service composition architecture in order to fulfill a set of
new requirements: First, if the database update performed by Service B fails, then it must
be logged by Service A.
Secondly, if the database update performed by Service C fails,
then a notification e-mail must be sent out to a human administrator. Third, if the database
update performed by either Service C or Service D fails, then both of these updates must
be reversed so that the respective databases are restored back to their original states.
What steps can be taken to fulfill these requirements?
- A. The Compensating Service Transaction pattern is applied to Service B so that it invokes
exception handling logic that logs failed database updates before responding with a failure
code back to Service A . Similarly, the Compensating Service Transaction pattern is
applied to Service C so that it issues an e-mail notification to a human administrator when a
database update fails. The Atomic Service Transaction pattern is applied so that Services
A, C, and D are encompassed in the scope of a transaction that will guarantee that if the
database updates performed by either Service C or Service D fails, then both updates will
be rolled back. The Service Autonomy principle is further applied to Service A to ensure
that it remains consistently available to carry out this sequence of actions. - B. The Atomic Service Transaction pattern is applied so that Services A, C, and D are
encompassed in the scope of a transaction that will guarantee that if the database updates
performed by either Service C or Service D fails, then both updates will be rolled back. The
Compensating Service Transaction pattern is then applied to all services so that the scope
of the compensating transaction includes the scope of the atomic transaction. The
compensating exception logic that is added to Service D automatically invokes Service B to
log the failure condition and Service C to issue the e-mail notification to the human
administrator. This way, it is guaranteed that the compensating logic is always executed
together with the atomic transaction logic. - C. Service A is updated to perform a logging routine when Service A receives a response
message from Service B containing a failure code. Service A is further updated to send an
e-mail notification to a human administrator if Service A receives a response message from
Service C containing a failure code. The Atomic Service Transaction pattern is applied so
that Services A, C, and D are encompassed in the scope of a transaction that will
guarantee that if the database updates performed by either Service C or Service D fails,
then both updates will be rolled back. - D. None of the above.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
Service A has become increasingly difficult to maintain. Its core service logic has become
bloated and convoluted because it has been updated numerous times during which
additional functionality was added to interact with the database and the legacy system and
to support interaction with Service Consumers A and B (via the two service contracts) as
well as interaction directly with Service Consumer C.
What steps can be taken to solve these problems and to prevent them from happening
again in the future?
- A. The Service Facade pattern can be applied to position a Facade component between
the core service logic and the implementation resources (the database and the legacy
system) and to also position a Facade component between the two service contracts and
Service Consumers A and - B. None of the above.
- C. The Official Endpoint pattern can be applied to limit access to Service A to one of its two
published service contracts. The Service Loose Coupling principle can be applied so that
Service Consumer C does not negatively couple itself directly to the core service logic of
Service A . B.
The Service Facade pattern can be applied to position a Facade component
between the core service logic and the implementation resources (the database and the
legacy system) and to position a faade component between the core service logic and the
two service contracts. The Contract Centralization pattern can be applied to limit access to
Service A to one of its two published service contracts. The Service Abstraction principle
can be applied to hide the implementation details of Service A from service consumers. - D. The Service Faade pattern can be applied to position a Facade component between the
core service logic and the two service contracts. The Contract Centralization pattern can be
applied to limit access to Service A to one of its two published service contracts. The
Service Loose Coupling principle can be applied so that Service Consumer C does not
negatively couple itself directly to the core service logic of Service A .
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
Service A is a utility service that provides generic data access logic to a database that
contains data that is periodically replicated from a shared database (1). Because the
Standardized Service Contract principle was applied to the design of Service A, its service
contract has been fully standardized.
Service A is being accessed by three service consumers. Service Consumer A accesses a
component that is part of the Service A implementation by invoking it directly (2). Service
Consumer B invokes Service A by accessing its service contract (3). Service Consumer C
directly accesses the replicated database that is part of the Service A implementation (4).
You've been told that the reason Service Consumers A and C bypass the published
Service A service contract is because, for security reasons, they are not allowed to access
a subset of the operations in the WSDL definition that expresses the service contract. How
can the Service A architecture be changed to enforce these security restrictions while
avoiding negative forms of coupling?
- A. The Contract Centralization pattern can be applied to force service consumers to access
the Service A architecture via its published service contract only. The Service Loose
Coupling principle can then be applied to ensure that the centralized service contract does
not contain any content that is dependent on or derived from the underlying service
implementation. - B. The Concurrent Contracts pattern can be applied to Service A in order to establish one
or more alternative service contracts. This allows service consumers with different levels of
security clearance to continue accessing the service logic via its published service
contracts. - C. None of the above.
- D. The Contract Centralization pattern can be applied to force all service consumers to
access the Service A architecture via its published service contract. This will prevent
negative forms of coupling that could lead to problems when the database is replaced. The
Service Abstraction principle can then be applied to hide underlying service architecture
details so that future service consumers cannot be designed to access any part of the
underlying service implementation.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
It has been confirmed that Policy A and Policy B are, in fact, the same policy and that the
security credential check performed by Service Agent B also needs to be carried out on
messages sent to Service B .
How can this service composition architecture be changed to reduce the redundancy of
policy content and fulfill the new security requirement?
- A. The Policy Centralization pattern can be applied so that Policy A and Policy B are
combined into the same policy. The Service Agent pattern is then applied to introduce a
new service agent (called Service Agent D) which carries out the validation and
enforcement of Policy A and Policy B.
Service Agent B can be moved so that it performs
the security credential check for Service B, but not for Service A . - B. The Policy Centralization pattern can be applied so that Policy A and Policy B are
combined into the same policy. The policy enforcement logic is removed from Service
Agent C and Service Agent A is then used to enforce the policy for messages sent to
Service A and Service B . Service Agent B can be used to perform the security credential
check for Service A and Service B . - C. None of the above.
- D. The Policy Centralization pattern can be applied so that Service Agent A is changed to
enforce the policy for messages sent to Service A and Service B and to perform the
security credential check for Service A and Service B .
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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