Fundamentals

·       Explain basic SOA concepts and how they map to implementations

·       Describe the components and architecture of SOA Suite

·       Describe SOA Suite's role in cloud integration and mobile applications

·       Use the right components to implement common integration patterns

·       Analyze XPath expressions to retrieve elements in an XML document

·       Describe Oracle’s SOA governance capabilities

·       Describe how B2B capabilities enable trading partner relationships

·       Describe the main features of the Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS)

 

BPEL Modeling

·       Use the BPEL Editor to create synchronous and asynchronous processes

·       Use WSDL partner link types and BPEL partner link elements to interact with services

·       Use the assign activity to manipulate data in BPEL variables

·       Model conditional branching, looping, and parallel processing

·       Implement exception handling, compensating transactions and correlation

·       Create and configure BPEL and composite sensors

·       Use the BPEL Debugger

 

Adapters

·       Describe the role adapters play in a SOA composite application

·       Describe the adapter architecture

·       Use the file, database, and JMS adapters

·       Configure adapters at design-time and run-time

·       Describe cloud-related adapters

 

Business Rules

·       Create if/then rules with Rules Designer

·       Create decision table rules with Rules Designer

·       Integrate a rule into a BPEL process

·       Describe how rules are used with mediator and human task components

 

Human Task Services

·       Design a human task

·       Invoke a human task from a BPEL process

·       Generate Application Development Framework (ADF) task forms for human tasks

·       Interact with the Worklist application to act on tasks

 

Service Mediation

·       Differentiate between when to use Mediator and Service Bus

·       Explain the role of Service Bus and the benefits it provides

·       Create and configure Service Bus proxies, pipelines, and business services

·       Use throttling, endpoint management, and caching to scale business services in Service Bus

·       Configure a service as RESTful and access it using the REST approach

 

Event Processing

·       Explain event-driven architecture and the support provided by Event Delivery Network (EDN)

·       Use components to publish and consume events

·       Explain Complex Event Processing (CEP) and how it is supported by Oracle Event Processing (OEP)

·       Explain Event Processing Network (EPN) and how it relates to OEP

·       Explain how various OEP CQL data cartridges enhance the capabilities of the CQL engine

 

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

·       Describe the role of BAM

·       Use activity monitors, counters, business indicators and interval monitoring objects

·       Create alert rules to launch alerts

·       Build an executive dashboard

 

Securing Services

·       Describe the role and features of Oracle Web Service Manager (OWSM)

·       Describe identity propagation

·       Attach security policies to end points at design-time and run-time

 

Deployment and Troubleshooting

·       Deploy and undeploy components to SOA Suite

·       Discuss the role Maven and Hudson play

·       Create test cases to initiate inbound messages and to emulate outbound, fault and callback messages

·       Monitor components deployed to SOA Suite

·       Describe how SOA Suite applications scale to large-scale production

·       Troubleshoot a deployed SOA Suite application

 

Installation and Configuration

·       Install and configure SOA Suite

·       Upgrade a production application from SOA Suite 11g

·       Install and configure Oracle Event Processing (OEP)