Certified SOA Architect

By mastering the patterns, principles, practises, and industry-standard technologies necessary to engineer contemporary services-based solutions, a Certified SOA Architect has proven proficiency in the technology architecture models and mechanics of service, microservice, and service composition implementations.

A single exam or a series of exams may need to be passed in order to earn the SOA Architect Certification, depending on the exam style selected. A digital Certificate of Excellence and a digital Certification Badge are awarded to those who successfully complete this certification by Acclaim/Credly, who also provides an account that allows for online certification status verification.

Exam Registration

You can take exams from anywhere in the world using Pearson VUE testing centres, Pearson VUE online proctoring, and Arcitura on-site exam proctoring at your location.

Course Outline

Fundamental SOA, Services & Microservices

• Business and Technology Drivers for SOA, Services and Microservices
• Strategic Goals and Benefits of Service-Oriented Computing
• Plain English Introduction to Services and Microservices
• Fundamental Characteristics of a Service-Oriented Architecture
• Understanding Service-Orientation as a Design Paradigm, including coverage of the Four Pillars of Service-Orientation
• Introduction to Service Layers, Service Models and Service Compositions
• Service Inventories, Service Layers and Service API Governance and Management
• Introduction to Common Service Technologies, including API
• Gateways, Virtualization, Containerization
• Introduction to Cloud Computing and Cloud Services
• Adoption Impacts and Requirements, including considerations for
• Governance, Infrastructure, Performance and Standardization

Service Technology Concepts

• Comparing Service Implementation Mediums
• Service Roles and Service Agents
• Message Exchange Patterns and Service Activities
• Basic XML, XML Schema, JSON and JSON Schema Concepts
• HTTP Methods, Response Codes and Headers
• Basic REST Service Concepts, including Properties and Constraints
• REST Services, Contracts, Resources and Messaging
• Hypermedia and Late Binding
• Basic WSDL and SOAP Concepts
• WS-* Technologies
• Web Service Contracts, Messaging and Registries
• Cloud Computing Concepts
• Vertical and Horizontal Scaling
• Multitenancy, Elasticity and Resiliency
• On-Demand Usage, Ubiquitous Access and Measured Usage
• Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds
• IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

Design & Architecture with SOA, Services & Microservices

• Fundamental Application Design with SOA
• Service-Orientation vs. “Silo”-Based Design
• Service-Oriented Application Design with Microservices
• Understanding Services and Service Capabilities
• Understanding the Functional Context of Microservices
• Complex Service Composition Design, Composition Runtime
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Composition with Microservices
• Distinguishing Characteristics of the SOA Model
• The Eight Design Principles of Service-Orientation
• Contract-First Design, Standardized Service Contracts and
• Uniform Contracts
• Service Loose Coupling and Coupling Types, Service Abstraction and Information Hiding
• Service Reusability and Agwnostic Design, Service Autonomy and Runtime Control
• Service Statelessness and State Deferral, Service Discoverability and Interpretability
• Design Guidelines for REST Services
• Design Guidelines for Web Services
• Design Guidelines for Microservices

Advanced SOA Design & Architecture with Services & Microservices

• SOA vs. Traditional Architectures
• Understanding Service and Composition Architectures
• Logic Centralization, Schema Centralization and Canonical Schemas
• Dual Protocols, Canonical Resources and Inventory Endpoints
• Contract Centralization, Official Endpoints and Services with
• Concurrent Contracts
• Lightweight Endpoints, Reusable and Uniform Contracts
• Service Façades, Legacy Wrappers and Service Data Replication
• Microservice Deployments and Containerization
• Redundant Implementations, Content Negotiation and Idempotent Capabilities
• Messaging Metadata, State Messaging and Event-Driven Messaging
• Service Instance Routing, Endpoint Redirection, Service Agents and Intermediate Routing
• API Gateways and Asynchronous Queuing
• Data Format Transformation, Data Model Transformation and Protocol Bridging
• Service Brokers and the Enterprise Service Bus
• Orchestration and Compensating Service Transactions
• Composition Autonomy, Entity Linking and State Repositories

Microservice Architecture & Containerization Lab

• This practical workshop serves as a continuation of course modules 3 and 7, enabling participants to put the technologies, concepts, approaches, patterns, and principles previously covered to use when completing a number of design challenges.

• In order to apply design patterns to create their own services and service-oriented solutions, participants are required to learn the background information for case study cases and complete a number of exercises.

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Preparation Guide: Certified SOA Architect

With the course modules and the length of time left before the final, most important exam in mind, the goal is to develop an examination plan. Always begin by paying attention to the areas that are more exposed. Distractions will be simpler to put aside while reading this study guide.

Official Guide

The exam course is accurately described in this study guide, which will aid in your comprehension of it and familiarisation with its ideas. You must be well informed of the exam requirements before starting your study process, hence the official guidebook is crucial.

Live Virtual Training

At both public and private classes given by Certified Trainers, virtual attendance is permitted. Exams may be taken online or at Pearson VUE testing centres by participants in online workshops.

Self Study with eLEARNING

Additionally, a limited selection of Arcitura courses come with reduced Pearson VUE exam vouchers.

Self Study with Self Study Kits

For Arcitura courses, study kits are available for purchase; they include both the necessary course materials and extras for independent study and exam preparation. Study Kits are available for a discounted price. examination vouchers for Pearson VUE.

Evaluate with Practice Tests

As you prepare for the test, build your confidence by using hundreds of Arcitura practise questions. Learn about your skills and limitations and specific topic areas so you can concentrate your studies where they should be. You can review particular portions at your convenience or practise a timed test.