95-843 Service Oriented Architecture    Quiz 4 Preparation

Quiz 4 on Monday November 22, 2010


1) Read chapter 5 of Newcomer.
 
    a) Compare and contrast the change of business processes and
       the change in delivery channels (channel access tier).
    b) Describe the role of the channel access tier.

2) Read chapter 6 of Newcomer.

    a) What is BPM and what are its goals?
    b) Discuss BPM Process Modeling, Process Execution
       and Process Monitoring.
    c) Describe the Business Process Layer, Service Layer,
       Application layer and Technology layer and BAM.
    d) Compare orchestration and choreography.

3)  Questions relating to SOA Patterns:

    a) Intermediate Routing 
    b) Rules Centralization
    c) Reliable Messaging
    d) Legacy Wrapper
    e) Brokered Authentication
    f) Atomic Service Transaction
    g) Compensating Transactions
    h) Data Confidentiality

    See the link http://www.soapatterns.org/

4) Read the article on SOA and Cloud Computing on the schedule.

    a) What is "managing-by-magazine"?
    b) What is "managing-by-inertia"?
    c) How does the author define "architecture"?
    d) What is "small SOA"? What is "Big SOA".
    e) What are the primary benefits of SOA?
    f) What are the core ideas behind cloud computing?