Course Description

Section 1 - The Value of SOA (13%) a. Identify business functions where SOA can improve competitiveness and productivity. b. Identify the SOA factors that make businesses more agile. - 717 c. Realize the opportunity costs of not adopting SOA. - 717 d. Identify situations where SOA does not provide the desired value. http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid26_gci1049341,00. html Section 2 - SOA Concepts (24%)

a. Define the concept of a service in SOA. -717 b. Describe loose coupling in SOA. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-term3/

c. Describe the roles that XML plays in SOA (SOAP, WSDL, ebXML). -717 d. Describe the role of the registry in service publishing and discovery. e. f.

-717 Explain what a business process is in the context of SOA. -717 Explain what a transaction is in the context of SOA.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/may06/lieberman/?S_TACT=1 05AGX52&S_CMP=cn-a-r

g. Determine the role that technology standards (WS-Security, BPEL4WS, WS-I) play in SOA. -717 , 719 Section 3 - Basic SOA Architecture (22%)

a. Describe a basic SOA architecture. –717 b. Describe the role of an enterprise service bus (ESB) in SOA. – 719 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-soaesb/

c. Describe the role of Web services in building an SOA. - 717 d. Describe choreography of business processes from services and human e.

interactions. -719 Identify and explain the stages of the SOA lifecycle (model, assemble, deploy, manage). -719

http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/webservices/ws-soawhitepaper.pdf http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-term1/

Section 4 - SOA Management (19%)

a. Explain the need for SOA governance. - 717 b. Define SOA governance (SLA, roles and responsibilities, policies, c. d. e. f.

critical success factors, and metrics). -717 Describe Quality of Service (QoS) compliance in SOA governance -719 Explain the need for a distributed security model. - 719 Identify the impact of changes to services in the SOA lifecycle. - 717 Identify the role of the enterprise service bus (ESB) in SOA governance. - 717

Section 5 - Preparing for SOA (22%)

a. Position SOA benefits with respect to business and IT strategy. 717 b. Capture and assess business issues and drivers. c. Capture and assess IT issues and drivers. d. Describe the people and technology factors that impact readiness for SOA. 717 e. Identify barriers to SOA adoption. 717 f. Describe the entry points into SOA. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/entrypoints/index.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/newtosoa/