Uti Uty Ratte

Prof. Daniel Zeng

Sample MIS 541 Exam

INSTRUCTIONS

• The exam is close-book, close-notes. • This exam counts for only 30% of your grade for this second half of the semester. • Do NOT spend all your time on questions you do not know how to solve. • Partial credits will be given, so please SHOW YOUR WORK. • If you think some questions are not clear enough, please explicitly state your own interpretation and then proceed to solve them.

Good Luck!

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Question 1. General Background

(a) What does SaaS stand for? List 3 defining characteristics of an SaaS viewpoint.

(b) Define services in the narrow Web service sense.

(c) Briefly explain how Web Services can enable a technical IT consultant to make to order as to providing IT services.

(d) What are the top 3 standards organizations relevant to SOA? For each organization, list 2 standards or specifications they sponsor.

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Question 2. XML, Web Services, and SOA

(a) What is the relationship between XML and SGML?

(b) Briefly discuss the top 5 intended benefits of adopting an SOA approach for enterprise IS development.

(c) What role does XSD play in SOA?

(c) Describe a simple business scenario in which UDDI can be fruitfully deployed.

(d) Briefly define orchestration. What role does BPEL play in enabling orchestration?

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Question 3. WSDL, SOAP, and MEPs

(a) What is the relationship between WSDL and SOAP? (6 points)

(b) In a WSDL file, what does the element define? What is the most frequently used binding in enterprise applications? (8 points)

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Question 4. An SOA Case

You are hired as an IT manager working for an investment services firm. Your boss asks you to lead a team to complete an SOA system analysis and design project to accomplish the following business goal: Your firm will be providing a set of stock-related information services including: (a) listing all the stocks in a particular sector; (b) given a stock symbol, retrieving...