When an organization cannot implement a single enterprise service inventory, it has the option to organize collections of services into multiple service inventories referred to as __________.

Question

Options

• Adomain service inventories
• Bsub-inventories
• Csectional service inventories
• Dservice inventory subsets

• A
  87% (33)
• B
  8% (3)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Domain service inventories is correct because this is the established SOA term for partitioning a large enterprise service inventory into smaller, governance-aligned collections - typically organized around business domains like HR, Finance, or Sales - when a single unified inventory is impractical.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (sub-inventories) sounds intuitive but is not formal SOA terminology; it implies a hierarchical parent-child relationship that doesn't reflect how domain inventories actually work.
• C (sectional service inventories) is fabricated terminology with no basis in SOA standards or literature.
• D (service inventory subsets) describes a fragment of an existing inventory rather than a fully governed, independently managed collection.

Memory tip: Think "domain" = department or business area - just as a company divides into domains (HR, Finance, etc.), it can divide its service inventory the same way. The word "domain" is the key anchor in SOA architecture vocabulary.

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