CAS-001 · Question #129
A large organization has gone through several mergers, acquisitions, and de-mergers over the past decade. As a result, the internal networks have been integrated but have complex dependencies and…
The correct answer is D. Enterprise service bus (ESB). An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is specifically designed to integrate heterogeneous, disparate systems across a large enterprise using a standards-based messaging backbone. It supports event-driven messaging, protocol mediation, message routing, transformation, and security…
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A large organization has gone through several mergers, acquisitions, and de-mergers over the past decade. As a result, the internal networks have been integrated but have complex dependencies and interactions between systems. Better integration is needed in order to simplify the underlying complexity. Which of the following is the MOST suitable integration platform to provide event- driven and standards-based secure software architecture?
Options
- AService oriented architecture (SOA)
- BFederated identities
- CObject request broker (ORB)
- DEnterprise service bus (ESB)
How the community answered
(61 responses)- A3% (2)
- B11% (7)
- C5% (3)
- D80% (49)
Explanation
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is specifically designed to integrate heterogeneous, disparate systems across a large enterprise using a standards-based messaging backbone. It supports event-driven messaging, protocol mediation, message routing, transformation, and security policy enforcement - exactly the requirements described for an organization with complex post-merger system interdependencies. An ESB decouples systems so they communicate through the bus rather than point-to-point, dramatically simplifying the underlying complexity. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style or philosophy, not a deployable integration platform. Federated identities (B) addresses identity and access management across organizational boundaries, not system integration. An Object Request Broker (C) is a CORBA-era mechanism for distributed object communication, which is too narrow and outdated for enterprise-wide integration. ESB is the purpose-built, modern answer to the described problem.
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