Practice Questions 029–042
DII8-029 · Interaction & Architecture · Standard · Understand
What is the defining EAI idea in Chapter 8?
A. Application modules interact through well-defined APIs rather than reaching directly into one another's data stores.
B. All messages must pass through a cloud vendor.
C. All event streams must use CEP.
D. All data must be physically consolidated.
DII8-030 · Interaction & Architecture · Standard · Understand
Which statement best describes an Enterprise Service Bus?
A. A relational schema for a warehouse.
B. A message-oriented intermediary that passes messages among heterogeneous systems and supports loose coupling.
C. A technique for profiling source data.
D. A legal memorandum between organizations.
DII8-031 · Plan & Analyze · Difficult · Distinguish
What most distinguishes SOA from a single API call?
A. SOA means all data is stored in one place.
B. SOA is only a network protocol.
C. SOA is an architecture of independent reusable services with well-defined interfaces; APIs are commonly how services are exposed.
D. SOA is the same as replication.
DII8-032 · Plan & Analyze · Difficult · Apply
A firm combines card transactions, location signals and account history to identify fraud patterns and automatically trigger a block. Which concept fits best?
A. Point-to-point batch.
B. Archiving.
C. Replication.
D. Complex Event Processing.
DII8-033 · Plan & Analyze · Standard · Distinguish
Which statement best matches Data Virtualization?
A. It presents heterogeneous/distributed stores as a single database view without requiring physical consolidation.
B. It permanently copies every source into one new database.
C. It is only a data-retention policy.
D. It is a service-level agreement.
DII8-034 · Plan & Analyze · Foundational · Understand
How does Chapter 8 use Data-as-a-Service?
A. Only as database hosting.
B. Data can be provided on demand by an external vendor or internally through a catalog of enterprise data/services.
C. Only as a synonym for data virtualization.
D. Only as a synonym for ETL.
DII8-035 · Plan & Analyze · Standard · Understand
What is cloud-based integration/iPaaS in Chapter 8?
A. A requirement to move all data to a public cloud.
B. A replacement for all Data Governance.
C. A cloud-delivered integration capability addressing data, process, SOA and application integration, including SaaS/on-premises connections.
D. A type of archive media.
DII8-036 · Plan & Analyze · Standard · Understand
Why do formal data exchange standards improve interoperability?
A. They eliminate all transformation.
B. They guarantee zero latency.
C. They force one vendor product.
D. They provide a shared structure/meaning that participating systems can map to, reducing ambiguity and support complexity.
DII8-037 · Plan & Analyze · Foundational · Recall
Which Plan & Analyze activity comes first in the Chapter 8 lifecycle?
A. Define data integration and lifecycle requirements.
B. Build the final production flow.
C. Deploy CEP alerts.
D. Archive all source data.
DII8-038 · Plan & Analyze · Standard · Distinguish
What is the main purpose of data discovery before design?
A. To write final transformation code.
B. To identify potential data sources through technical search and subject-matter expertise, and assess whether they may fit the initiative.
C. To approve all service-level agreements.
D. To select only cloud technologies.
DII8-039 · Design & Develop · Difficult · Distinguish
What does lineage contribute to DII?
A. Only a list of database passwords.
B. Only current storage size.
C. The origin, movement, transformation, use and often frequency of change for data, supporting impact analysis.
D. Only target field names.
DII8-040 · Design & Develop · Standard · Apply
A source specification says a field is always populated, but the actual data may contain blanks/defaults. Which activity should test that assumption before design?
A. Sharing agreement.
B. CEP.
C. SOA registry.
D. Data profiling.
DII8-041 · Design & Develop · Standard · Recall
Which is one of the four business-rule categories named in Chapter 8?
A. Definitions of business terms.
B. Network routing tables.
C. Database backup media.
D. Server CPU utilization.
DII8-042 · Design & Develop · Standard · Apply
What should a DII solution architecture include?
A. Only a tool name.
B. Persistent/transitive structures, orchestration/frequency, regulatory/security concerns, and operational concerns such as availability, recovery and retention.
C. Only the final target table.
D. Only a project timeline.