Oracle Service-Oriented

Architecture 11g
What two products in Oracle's business process management strategy make for
particularly good cross-sell and up-sell opportunities with SOA Suite?
- BPM Suite (*)
- BPA Suite (*)
What type of person is most likely to use BPA Suite?
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Enterprise Architect (*)

What best describes "social BPM" in BPM Suite 11g?

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It is a feature of BPM Suite's Process Spaces that utilizes Web 2.0 techniques to
help business users be more productive. (*)

You are building a quick HelloWorld composite application for a customer and you want
the application to be accessed via a web service call. To what area in the SOA
Composite Editor would you drag the Web Services palette item?
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Exposed Services (*)

You only have five minutes to do a quick SOA Suite demo. The customer wants to see
you build a HelloWorld-type composite application from scratch. Which statement best
describes how you might tackle this challenge?
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Build around a Mediator component accepting a web service call and writing out
the payload using the file adapter. (*)

What is the first SOA Suite tool you typically use when creating a new composite
application that accesses an existing web service endpoint?
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SOA Composite Editor (*)

You have a quick HelloWorld composite application up and running. It is exposed as a

web service endpoint and accepts and incoming payload with the web service call. You
want to demonstrate how the endpoint can be protected with a user name and
password. What tool would you access to specify the security policy?
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Enterprise Manager (*)

The _____ provides extract, load and transform capabilities for SOA applications
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Oracle Data Integrator (*)

Which two SOA-related products are typically part of a SOA governance discussion?
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Service Registry (*)

Enterprise Repository (*)

CEP performs _____ on large volumes of incoming events to identify situations that
may call for immediate action

pattern detection (*)

In a discussion about Oracle's process integration offering, which two non SOA-specific
products are typically mentioned because of their up-sell and cross-sell potential?
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BPA Suite (*)

BPM Suite (*)

The BPEL Process Manager performs _____ of web service and adapter invocations
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orchestration (*)

What is the list price of SOA Suite 11g?

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$57.5K per CPU (*)

For organizations who want to start small and incrementally grow their investment in
SOA, which two SOA Suite products are also offered for sale separately from SOA
Suite?
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BPEL Process Manager (*)

Oracle Service Bus (*)

A Java EE application server is required to deploy SOA Suite 11g. Which two are correct
statements about this underlying infrastructure?
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The cost of a WebLogic Server license is $45K per CPU. (*)

A separate WebLogic Service license is required if SOA Suite is to be deployed
atop WebLogic. (*)

What is the list price to add BPM Suite 11g to an existing SOA Suite 11g investment?
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$57.5K per CPU (*)

Which three of the following are included in SOA Suite 11g packaging?
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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) (*)

Complex Event Processing (CEP) (*)
Oracle Service Bus (OSB) (*)

What is the orchestration facility in SOA Suite 11g?

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BPEL Process Manager (*)

Which three are common SOA benefits?

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Common SOA benefits include: 1) Eases technical integration challenges from

ongoing mergers and acquisitions, 2) Speeds time to market for new business
initiatives and 3) Reduces costs of integrating disparate applications

What are the four key elements of Oracle's Fusion Middleware strategy?
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Complete (*)
Best of Breed (*)
Open (*)
Integrated (*)

In discussing potential projects being driven by the line of business, you will likely lead
with _____.

BPM Suite (*)

What is the best alternative to the spaghetti mess of point-to-point integrations found
in many legacy IT implementations?
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Exposing application functionality as reusable services (*)

Which Oracle SOA technology provides Extract, Load and Transform (E-LT) capabilities?
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Data Integrator (*)

What is the main management and monitoring console for SOA Suite 11g?
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Enterprise Manager (*)

Which two Oracle products are most closely associated with SOA governance?
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Service Registry (*)

Enterprise Repository (*)

What is the IT organization's most formidable challenge?

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Stove-piped, monolithic applications that are difficult to integrate (*)

Which two are true about KPIs?

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BAM is used to monitor KPI performance. (*)

KPI stands for Key Performance Indicator (*)

There are four facets to Oracle's strategy for delivering SOA products to market.
Identify two
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Offer complete and comprehensive offerings (*)

Provide products that are well integrated and designed to work together (*)

Which SOA Suite 11g component targets the design and real-time updates of
executive dashboards
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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) (*)

Which two are true about CEP?

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A classic use of CEP technology is fraud detection. (*)

CEP monitors streams of independent, incoming events and looks for patterns
that might be decision-impelling. (*)

Which statement describes a key trend in the SOA market?

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Management of distributed architectures is a challenge (*)

In the Gartner magic quadrant studies for SOA, which two competitors typically occupy
the same quadrant as Oracle?
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IBM (*)
TIBCO (*)

Although not a formal part of SOA Suite 11g, Master Data Management can be a
powerful companion solution. What statement is true about Master Data Management?

Master Data Management reconciles multiple customer master records into one
definitive and comprehensive "single source of the truth" record for the
customer. (*)

You are building a quick HelloWorld composite application for a customer and you want
the application to write out a message to the files system. To what area in the SOA
Composite Editor would you drag the File Adapter palette item?
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External References (*)

Which two are correct statements about the SOA Suite 11g B2B capabilities?
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B2B is essentially an eCommerce gateway that supports mature business

documents, classic business processes and industry-tempered messaging
services. (*)
B2B provides for the secure and reliable exchange of documents between
businesses like retailers, suppliers and manufacturers. (*)

In the Gartner magic quadrant studies for SOA, which quadrant do you find Oracle
typically occupying
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Leaders (*)

BAM depends on _____ definitions that are monitored by the BPEL business processes
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key performance indicator (*)

Dashboarding is provided by SOA Suite's ____ facility.

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BAM (*)

BPM is important to addressing which #1 C-level pain point identified by Gartner

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Improving business processes (*)

Which best describes why mergers and acquisition often present a great opportunity
for SOA?
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With merger and acquisition activity there is a need to integrate existing and
newly acquired systems. (*)

What is the primary developer IDE for SOA Suite 11g?

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JDeveloper (*)

Which best describes pricing for BPM Suite?

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BPM Suite can be added to an existing SOA Suite installation for a list price of
$57.5K per processor. (*)

What Oracle product is used in BPM Suite to provide the Process Spaces capability?
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WebCenter (*)

Which Oracle product offering is a high-level, enterprise modeling and analysis tool
that might be part of a Six Sigma initiative?

BPA Suite (*)

What three capabilities does BPM Suite add to the underlying SOA Suite foundation?
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Process simulation (*)

Process Spaces (*)
BPMN modeling (*)

Which two features are typically included into a BPEL Process Manager discussion?
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Human Workflow (*)

Business Rules (*)

How does the E-LT (Extract, Load and Transfer) approach differ from the more
traditional ELT (Extract Transform and Load) approach?
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E-LT leverages the power of the database instead of relying on a separate ETL
transformation server. (*)

You are doing a chalk talk about Oracle's SOA technology. You begin constructing a
building block diagram. What technology is at the foundation of that diagram?
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Java EE application server like WebLogic Server (*)

Which product is based on the UDDI standard?

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Service Registry (*)

Which two are true about how adapters are used in SOA Suite 11g?
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Adapters are available for legacy environments like CICS and IMS. (*)
Adapters are based upon the JCA standard (*)

How does SOA address the difficulties IT faces today in integrating existing
applications?
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SOA recommends that functionality in existing applications be exposed as

services. (*)

What two statements best describe the role that Oracle Web Services Manager
(OWSM) plays in SOA Suite 11g?
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OWSM provides policy management and a services security infrastructure. (*)

OWSM coordinates authentication and authorization for web services. (*)

Which two SOA Suite features demonstrate support for events in a SOA project?
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Complex Event Processing (*)

Event Delivery Network (*)

Which two are true about how Service Component Architecture (SCA) is utilized in SOA
Suite 11g?
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SCA defines an assembly model for creating composite applications. (*)

SCA is most visually evident in JDeveloper's SOA Composite Editor. (*)

Which two are true about adapters used in SOA Suite 11g?

File and FTP adapters are bundled in SOA Suite to support reading, writing and
transferring files. (*)
Adapters execute operations that translate message data into a form that can
be accepted by or received from an external application. (*)

Which two best describe how business rules can be used in a SOA composite
application?
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Rules can determine routing paths within a business process based on service
level agreements or other guidelines. (*)
Rules can validate input documents. (*)

Which three are service engines that plug into the service infrastructure backplane?
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BPEL Process Manager (*)

Human Workflow (*)
Business Rules (*)

Which two best describe events as they are supported in SOA Suite 11g?
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An event is a message structure that represents an occurrence of a business

event that can be communicated to other applications. (*)
Business events consist of message data sent as the result of an event
occurrence in a business environment. (*)

Once a SAR file has been generated by JDeveloper, it can be deployed by ___.
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Enterprise Manager (*)

Which two SOA Suite features have Enterprise Service Bus (EBS) capabilities?
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Mediator (*)
Oracle Service Bus (*)

What two are most true about the BPEL Process Manager
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It is integrated with the business rules engine and the human workflow facility.
(*)
It is an orchestration engine that invokes capabilities via web service
invocations and calls out via JCA adapters. (*)

Which two are true about the Oracle Service Bus (OSB)?
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OSB provides services like message routing, transformation and mediation. (*)
OSB is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). (*)

Which two are true about BPM Suite's Process Composer?

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It is a web-based modeling tool. (*)

It extends modeling access to business users and process analysts who might
be intimidated by an IDE like JDeveloper. (*)

What Oracle product is used in BPM Suite to provide the Process Spaces capability?
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WebCenter (*)

_____ modeling is mostly focused on service orchestration while _____ modeling targets
capturing business process details

BPEL, BPMN (*)

What tool allows you to monitor component engines in the SOA Suite installation?
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Enterprise Manager (*)

Which two of the following have a primary use of allowing a component in a composite
application to communicate with the outside world?
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JMS adapter (*)

SOAP-based web service (*)

Which three are true about SOA Suite's BAM component?

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BAM is bundled with SOA Suite 11g. (*)

A developer uses a BAM modeling tool to create dashboards that map KPIs to
business graphics. (*)
BAM relies on BPEL process sensors to collect information. (*)

Which two components can both publish and subscribe for events on the Event
Delivery Network?
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BPEL Process Manager (*)

Mediator (*)
Why might you use EDN instead of a web service invocation to link capabilities of
your application?

You want to provide looser coupling between provider and consumer. (*)

Once a SAR file has been generated by JDeveloper, it can be deployed by ___.
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Enterprise Manager (*)

_____ provides a web browser-based facility to un-deploy composite applications.

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JDeveloper (*)
The _____ standard describes protocol that can guarantee delivery of SOAP
messages

WS-ReliableMessaging (*)

What SOA Suite 11g capability allows you to specify security for SOA-based web
service calls?
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Oracle Web Services Manager (*)

The _____ component integrates humans with automated processes orchestrated
by BPEL.

Human Workflow (*)

Which of the following component is typically used for basic routing, filtering and
transformation?

Mediator (*)

Two service engines in the same service infrastructure exchange _____ in order to
collaborate in a composite application
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normalized messages (*)

Oracle Web Services Manager policies are made up of one or more _____ that are
executed in the order in which they are listed
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assertions (*)

Oracle Web Services Manager provides which three main operations?

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Defining security and management policies for Web services (*)

Enforcing policies from a central policy manager (*)
Monitoring for security and management events (*)
What is true about the servers in a production SOA installation?

A managed server instance hosts the Java EE application which is the SOA
runtime environment. (*)

Composite applications can be tested using testing tools provided by

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JDeveloper (*)

Which three can be dragged and dropped into the components panel of the SOA
Composite Editor?
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Business Rules (*)

Mediator (*)
Human Task (*)

Which component would you be most likely to use to do content-based and headerbased routing?
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Mediator (*)

_____ is a component type that lets you create components that use plain old Java
objects (POJOs) and expose them as SCA services and references.
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Spring Bean (*)

Security policy is applied to _____ to provide authentication and authorization

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service endpoints (*)