Engineering Questions with Answers - Multiple Choice Questions
Software Engineering MCQ – Service Oriented Architecture
1 - Question
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is
a) Strongly Coupled
b) Loosely Coupled
c) Strongly Cohesive
d) Loosely Cohesive
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Answer: b
Explanation: SOA is the architectural style that supports loosely coupled services to enable business flexibility.
2 - Question
Which of the following is an essential principle of an architecture?
a) Consistency
b) Reliability
c) Scalability
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: Architecture implies a consistent and coherent design approach.
3 - Question
Arrange the following activities in order to build a SOA.
i. Virtualization through mediation.
ii. Track services with registries.
iii. Govern, secure and manage the services.
iv. Design for interoperability through the adoption of standards.
a) i, ii, iii, iv
b) iii, ii, i, iv
c) ii, iii, i, iv
d) ii, iii, iv, i
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Answer: c
Explanation: The order mentioned is appropriate to build a SOA
4 - Question
How is SOA different from OO Architecture ?
a) Strong coupling among objects
b) Communications are prescriptive rather than being descriptive
c) Data is separated from a service or behavior
d) Data and methods are integrated into a single object
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Answer: c
Explanation: A service-oriented architecture is essentially a collection of services which communicate with each other.
5 - Question
Which architecture will be built on top of a SOA ?
a) The Application Architecture
b) The Service Architecture
c) The Component Architecture
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
6 - Question
Which of the following utilities is not a part of Application Service Layer ?
a) Policy implementation
b) QoS
c) Security
d) Verify invoice
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Answer: d
Explanation: It is a part of Business service layer.
7 - Question
Which of the following utilities is not a part of Business Service Layer ?
a) Task centric service
b) Wrapper Services
c) Get account info
d) Entity centric service
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Answer: b
Explanation: It is a part of Application service layer.
8 - Question
We can build Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Object Oriented (OO) language
a) True
b) False
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Answer: a
Explanation: In SOA, the design methodology is associated, not an OO programming language. In fact we can do OO based architecture using non OO languages. Likewise we can build SOA using OO language.
9 - Question
Which architecture describes the various elements that support the implementation of services.
a) The Application Architecture
b) The Service Architecture
c) The Component Architecture
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: c
Explanation: None.
10 - Question
Web Services is not a realization of SOA ?
a) True
b) False
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Answer: b
Explanation: Web services is one realization of the SOA.