Service a Is a Utility Service That Provides Generic Data

question 3

Multiple Choice

Service A is a utility service that provides generic data access logic to a database that contains data that is periodically replicated from a shared database (1) . Because the Standardized Service Contract principle was applied to the design of Service A, its service contract has been fully standardized. Service A is being accessed by three service consumers. Service Consumer A accesses a component that is part of the Service A implementation by invoking it directly (2) . Service Consumer B invokes Service A by accessing its service contract (3) . Service Consumer C directly accesses the replicated database that is part of the Service A implementation (4) . You've been told that the reason Service Consumers A and C bypass the published Service A service contract is because, for security reasons, they are not allowed to access a subset of the operations in the WSDL definition that expresses the service contract. How can the Service A architecture be changed to enforce these security restrictions while avoiding negative forms of coupling?

• A) The Contract Centralization pattern can be applied to force all service consumers to access the Service A architecture via its published service contract. This will prevent negative forms of coupling that could lead to problems when the database is replaced. The Service Abstraction principle can then be applied to hide underlying service architecture details so that future service consumers cannot be designed to access any part of the underlying service implementation.
• B) The Contract Centralization pattern can be applied to force service consumers to access the Service A architecture via its published service contract only. The Service Loose Coupling principle can then be applied to ensure that the centralized service contract does not contain any content that is dependent on or derived from the underlying service implementation.
• C) The Concurrent Contracts pattern can be applied to Service A in order to establish one or more alternative service contracts. This allows service consumers with different levels of security clearance to continue accessing the service logic via its published service contracts.
• D) None of the above.

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Definitions:

MP

Stands for "Member of Parliament," but in a logical context, it refers to a deductive pattern of reasoning where a specific conclusion is inferred from a general rule and a specific case.

Conj

An abbreviation for "Conjunction," a logical operator that connects two conditions or propositions where both must be true.

Inference Forms

Patterns of reasoning where specific statements lead logically to a conclusion.

MP

In logic, MP refers to Modus Ponens, a form of argument that if a conditional statement ('If P then Q') is accepted, and P is affirmed, then Q must also be affirmed.