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I took my IBM 665: Architectural Design of SOA Solutions exam yesterday, and thankfully passed, I’d taken the same test previously and managed to fail by a single question, which was quite gutting to be honest, but second time round, with a bit more preparation. I managed to sail through and get a good mark.

Which basically means that I’m now an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer. This fits in well with my role as part of the SOA Virtual Team within FSS at IBM.

The test itself consists of five sections with about 59 multiple-choice questions.
Section 1 covers knowledge of applied SOA; Applying SOA principles to solution design, positioning the SOA benefits with respect to business and IT strategy, determining the role that technology standards play when implementing an SOA, applying the IBM SOA Reference Architecture and leveraging the IBM SOA Foundation and applying proper design guidelines for an SOA architecture.

Section 2 deals with SOA Assessment and Analysis; Capturing and assessing business issues and drivers, IT/technical issues and drivers, performing functional area assessments to assure readiness for SOA (people, processes and technology), assessing the current IT systems from an SOA perspective, identifying functional requirements which address business issues and drivers, identifying nonfunctional requirements and how they relate to services and creating an SOA architecture (solution outline) utilising existing reference architectures.

Section 3 is all about SOA Design; Determining services and tasks based on business process model, applying appropriate standards to SOA design, articulating architectural/design decisions, determining the approach to legacy transformation in the SOA solution, designing the service integration environment, incorporating IBM SOA Foundation products into the design as appropriate, applying appropriate SOA design patterns to solve customer problems, designing a service definition to address functional requirements, and designing a service component to address nonfunctional requirements.

Section 4 is SOA Implementation; Guide and review security implementation, guide and review implementation of integration patterns, guide and review services enablement for legacy applications, guide and review quality assurance5. Guide and review the application of IBM SOA products/tools, and guide and review the information management implementation.

The last section, Section 5 deals with SOA Deployment and Management; Guide and review the service management implementation, the business/IT policy management, business Process Management, operations management and analyze and refine service integration for optimization and reuse.

The rose wasn’t part of the test, Michelle gave it to me last night when I got home, as a Well Done for finally getting through the test, which was a wonderful end to a hard day.

Certification, IBM, SOA, SolutionDesigner

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