What Is a Service-Oriented Architecture

question 12

Multiple Choice

What is a service-oriented architecture?

• A) A business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as linked, repeatable activities, tasks, or services.
• B) A business task.
• C) The capability of services to be joined together on demand to create composite services, or disassembled just as easily into their functional component.
• D) The capability of two or more computer systems to share data and resources, even though they are made by different manufacturers.

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Definitions:

Actual Costs

The actual expenses incurred in the production or acquisition of goods and services, as opposed to estimated or standard costs.

Standard Cost

An estimated or predetermined cost of performing an operation or producing a good, used in budgeting and variance analysis.

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Direct Materials Price Variance

A measure used in management accounting to assess the difference between the actual cost of materials used in production and the expected (standard) cost.