Services can be referred to as __________ because of the enterprise-centric design considerations of service-orientation and SO

Question

Options

• Aenterprise architectures
• Benterprise resources
• Centerprise definitions
• Denterprise-centric business models

• A
  6% (2)
• B
  88% (28)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Option B is correct because service-orientation is fundamentally an enterprise-centric design paradigm - services are intentionally designed to be reusable, shared assets that serve the broader organization, making them enterprise resources in the same way capital equipment or data are organizational resources.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (enterprise architectures): Services are components within an enterprise architecture, not architectures themselves.
• C (enterprise definitions): This phrase has no established meaning in service-orientation; services define behavior, they aren't called "definitions."
• D (enterprise-centric business models): Too broad - business models describe how an organization creates value, not what individual services are classified as.

Memory tip: Think of services like company tools in a shared toolbox - they're resources the whole enterprise can reach for, not architectures or definitions. The word "resource" maps directly to how SOA treats services: pooled, reusable, governed at the enterprise level.

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