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Oracle AIA Foundation Pack 11g: Developing Applications

Introduction to Application Integration Architecture (AIA)
Describe the AIA Concepts & Products
Explain the AIA Value Proposition
Explain Types of Integrations Supported by AIA
Explain typical AIA Project Lifecycle
Outline AIA Product Strategy, Availability and Roadmap

Functional Design of an Integration
Create a new AIA Project
Add an existing service into an AIA Project
Create a new service solution component request
Analyze the Participating Application Connectivity Technology
Define the Deployment Strategy

Business Process Orchestration
Describe Concepts of Business Process Orchestration
Create an Enterprise Business Flows (EBF)
Create a Composite Business Processes (CBP)
Update existing EBFs and/or CBPs

Service Deployment
Explain AIA Deployment Plan
Create a Bill of Materials
Create a Deployment Plan
Package Integration Solution (PIP)
Deploy AIA Content Manually

Testing & Maintenance
Describe Test & Maintain AIA Integrations
Create CAVS Simulators
Describe Versioning
Describe AIA Error Handling & Logging
Describe AIA Guaranteed Message Delivery

Advanced AIA Implementation Topics
Discuss Advanced SOA Design Patterns and Security
Discuss Cluster Topologies and Installation
Discuss Development Tools and Resources
Discuss Sizing and Coding for Performance
Describe AIA B2B Support

Enterprise Mediation (EBO, EBS, EBM)
Describe Enterprise Business Objects
Describe Enterprise Business Services
Describe Enterprise Business Messages
Describe Service Construction
Outline SOA Development Lifecycle

Technical Design of an Integration
Introduce Technical Components of an AIA Project
Analyze the ABM to EBM mapping
Design the EBSs
Design the EBFs
Design the ABCSs

Governing SOA Development Lifecycle
Explain Functional Decomposition
Create Services using Service Constructor
Generate Bill-of-material & Deployment Plan
Install & Deploy AIA Artifacts
Identify Assets in Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER)

Annotating and Harvesting AIA Artifacts
Describe Annotation and Harvesting
Annotate a Service
Harvest a Service (to OER)

Implementation Best Practices
Outline a typical AIA Project Plan and Methodology
Describe AIA Implementation Governance
Discuss AIA Implementation Methods, Planning and Estimating
Describe Integrating with Oracle Applications using AIA
Describe Integrating with Legacy and 3rd Party Apps

Upgrading and Migrating from previous versions of AIA
Explain AIA Upgrade and Migration Scenarios
Upgrade AIA Technology Stack
Migrate AIA Artifacts
Discuss AIA Migration Strategies and Approaches
Describe the AIA Migration Flow

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QUESTION 1
What is the purpose of harvesting?

A. to parse theimplementation artifacts and persist their metadata to the AIA backend
B. to source control the implementation artifacts
C. to test the implementation
D. to collect the produced artifacts and store them

Answer: A

Explanation: Harvesting of Artifacts.The metadata can be submitted to Oracle Enterprise
Repository either from the command line, from Oracle JDeveloper, or using an Ant task.
The Harvester scans for artifacts and harvests those artifacts to detect the dependencies that exist
between them. The Harvester creates entities for these artifacts in Oracle Enterprise Repository
and creates the relationships between them.
Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository,
Harvesting of Artifacts

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QUESTION 2
Which statement is true about the AIAConfigurationProperties.xml file?

A. All the service-level configuration properties are stored within the module-level properties.
B. All the module-level configuration properties are stored within the service-level properties.
C. All the module-level configuration properties are stored within the system-level properties.
D. All the service-level configuration properties are stored within the system-level properties

Answer: C

Explanation: AIA provides external configuration properties to influence the run-time behavior of
system, infrastructure components, and services. These properties are provided as name-value
pairs at the system, module, and service levels in AIAConfigurationProperties.xml.
The AIAConfigurationProperties.xml supports two types of configurations:
* System level, including module level
Contains system-level configuration name-value pairs and module-level configuration name-value
pairs within the system level.
* Service level
Contains service-specific configuration name-value pairs.
Note:The AIA framework has this configuration file, AIAConfigurationProperties.xml, which groups
a lot of information about the environment – logging levels, notification recipients, and a great deal
of error handling behaviour.

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QUESTION 3
How do you jump start standards-compliant service deployment?

A. By using AIA code generator tool to create a skeleton of ABCS
B. By creating ABCS manually and by executing PIP Auditor to check compliance
C. By enforcing sticker qa checks
D. By manual code walkthrough

Answer: A

Explanation: AIA Service Constructor is an application that helps jump-start ABCS development
by pregenerating AIA artifacts complying with architectural recommendations. It generates artifacts
according to the AIA architecture naming recommendations and relieves developers of performing
repeatable mundane tasks, making them focus more on value-added business scenario-specific
tasks.
Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Concepts and Technologies Guide for Oracle Application
Integration Architecture Foundation Pack, Constructing an ABCS Using Service Constructor

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QUESTION 4
For upgrades, knowing what custom mappings have been done can be very useful for customers
to identify whether the upgrade will cause any functional issues. How will you identify the
functional issues?

A. XMAN (mapping compliance reports) reports in the CSV can be analyzed to find duplicate EBM
mappings that also contain extended records.
B. XMAN (mapping compliance reports) CSV reports can be analyzed to find the ABCS name that
has changed.
C. PIP Auditor reports can be analyzed to figure out the compliance of upgraded PIP.
D. EOL2CSV reports can be analyzed to find the correct ABCS for specific business flow.

Answer: B

Explanation: The reuse of artifacts and effective information sharing are key principles of SOA
governance. The XSL Mapping Analyzer (XMAN) analyzes mapping information that exists in
cryptic Application Business Connector Service (ABCS) XSLT files and provides it in a more
readable format so that existing connector mappings can be easily considered for reuse.
Being able to comprehend the mappings between an Application Business Message (ABM) and
an Enterprise Business Message (EBM) becomes imperative when developing a connector based
on existing connectors.
When preparing for an upgrade, use XMAN to compare customized mappings to Oracle-supplied
mappings. Evaluate the results of these comparisons and make any necessary changes before
performing the upgrade.
Reference: Oracle Application Integration Architecture, Infrastructure Components and Utilities
Guide

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QUESTION 5
Which two statements are true for a requester ABCS?

A. It receives the ABM as pay load and optionally returns the ABM as the response.
B. It cannot have additional interactions with the requester application to enrich the ABM.
C. It is supplied by the provider application to interface with an EBS.
D. It enables the participating application to invoke an EBS either to access data or to perform
transactional task.

Answer: A,D

Explanation: An ABCS (Application Business Connector Services) can be requester-specific or
provider-specific. A requester ABCS accepts the request from the client application through a
client-specific Application Business Message (ABM) and returns the response to the client
application through a client-specific ABM. The role of the requester ABCS is to act as a vehicle to
enable the participating application to invoke the EBS either to access data or to perform a
transactionaltask. (D) The client side ABM is the payload that is passed by the requester
application to the requester ABCS.
The requester application that wants to leverage an action must define the requester-specific
ABCS. The requester application that wants to implement this ABCS could be Siebel CRM,
PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM, or Oracle eBusiness Suite CRM. The requester application-specific
ABCS must take the requester application-specific ABM as input and provide the requester
application-specific ABM as output.
Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Concepts and Technologies Guide for Oracle Application
Integration Architecture Foundation Pack, Introduction to ABCS