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:

Standard Cost

A predetermined cost of manufacturing a single unit or a specified quantity of a particular product or service, used as a benchmark to measure performance.

Direct Material

Raw materials that are directly attributable to the product being manufactured and can be easily traced in the manufacturing process.

Output

In economic and production contexts, this refers to the total amount of goods or services produced by a company or economy.

Actual Cost

The true expenditure incurred for manufacturing, operations, or project activities.