One of the fundamental characteristics of service-oriented architecture is:

The correct answer is A. business-driven. SOA is fundamentally business-driven because services are designed around business capabilities and processes - IT aligns to business needs, not the other way around. This is a core tenet from Thomas Erl's SOA principles: services represent real business functions (e.g…

Background, Goals, Benefits, and Challenges of SOA

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Abusiness-driven
Bintegration-centric
Cinventory-neutral
Dsilo-driven

How the community answered

(20 responses)

A
90% (18)
C
5% (1)
D
5% (1)

Explanation

SOA is fundamentally business-driven because services are designed around business capabilities and processes - IT aligns to business needs, not the other way around. This is a core tenet from Thomas Erl's SOA principles: services represent real business functions (e.g., "Process Order," "Validate Customer") rather than technical constructs.

Why the distractors are wrong:

B (integration-centric) describes Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) or middleware patterns - SOA enables integration, but being integration-centric is not its defining characteristic.
C (inventory-neutral) is actually the opposite of SOA; SOA explicitly promotes a governed service inventory - a curated portfolio of reusable services across the enterprise.
D (silo-driven) contradicts SOA's purpose - SOA exists specifically to break down technology and organizational silos through shared, reusable services.

Memory tip: Think of the "B" in SOA's DNA - Business drives the design. If you see "silo," "integration-first," or "neutral-to-inventory," those are anti-SOA signals.

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#SOA characteristics#business-driven#architecture fundamentals#service-orientation

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