Lecture 11 - Documenting and Evaluating Design

What is the primary goal of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

• To tightly couple services for better communication

• To enable interoperability between distributed services

• To reduce software development time by eliminating documentation

• To enforce the use of only RESTful services

Which of the following is a key advantage of SOA in enterprise systems?

• It allows monolithic application design

• It enables reuse and integration across different platforms

• It increases system complexity with tightly coupled components

• It eliminates the need for APIs

What is a disadvantage of SOA?

• It increases software modularity

• It can introduce performance overhead due to service calls

• It requires microservices

• It is not used in enterprise applications

Which type of system benefits the most from SOA?

• A standalone mobile application

• A large-scale enterprise system with multiple integrations

• A simple personal website

• A video game engine

Which of the following is NOT a standard used in SOA?

• SOAP

• WSDL

• UDDI

• FTP

What is the primary purpose of WSDL?

• To encrypt web service messages

• To describe the interface of a web service

• To route messages to the correct service

• To execute remote procedure calls

Which of the following is a disadvantage of SOAP-based services?

• They cannot be used over the internet

• They introduce additional complexity due to XML parsing

• They do not support authentication

• They can only be used with REST APIs

What is UDDI primarily used for?

• Service discovery

• Message encryption

• Database management

• Logging service requests

Which of the following applications would most likely benefit from SOAP?

• A financial transaction system that requires high security

• A lightweight mobile application

• A simple blog website

• A small IoT sensor network

REST stands for:

• Remote Execution of Services and Transactions

• Representational State Transfer

• Resource Exchange and Service Transformation

• Reliable Enterprise Service Transactions