Below are four statements about business and technology alignment, as it pertains to service- oriented computing. Which of these statements is false?

Question

Options

• ABusiness and technology alignment represents the extent to which an IT enterprise and its automated
• BService-oriented computing promotes the abstraction and accurate encapsulation and expression of
• CThe pursuit of business and technology alignment can be supported by the collaboration of business
• DIn order for an IT enterprise to increase business and technology alignment, its business analysts must

• A
  8% (2)
• B
  17% (4)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  71% (17)

Explanation

Option D is false because business and technology alignment in service-oriented computing does not require business analysts to have deep knowledge of underlying technical platforms or implementation details. SOC achieves alignment precisely through abstraction - services expose standardized contracts that hide technical complexity, allowing business and IT stakeholders to collaborate without requiring business-side personnel to master technology internals.

Why the distractors (A, B, C) are true:

• A correctly defines business-technology alignment as the degree to which IT systems reflect and support business goals and processes.
• B is true because a core tenet of SOC is abstracting business logic into reusable, well-encapsulated services that can be understood and governed at the business level.
• C is true because alignment is an ongoing collaborative effort between business and technology teams - neither side achieves it alone.

Memory tip: Think of SOC's value proposition as building a bridge, not a tunnel. The bridge (service abstraction) lets business and technology meet in the middle - business analysts don't need to dig into the technical side to cross it. Any answer claiming they must go deep into technology contradicts the whole point of service abstraction.

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