SOA-Analyst Exam Information and Outline
SOA Analyst
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 6, 2026
SOA-Analyst Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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- Exam Format
- Online-proctored multiple-choice certification exam (Pearson VUE) covering the modules below
- Practice exam questions provided with the certification bundle
- Module 1: Fundamental SOA, Services & Microservices
- Business and technology drivers for SOA
- Service-orientation principles and the four pillars
- Service layers, models, compositions and inventories
- API governance; API gateways, virtualization and containerization
- Cloud computing basics and adoption requirements
- Module 2: Design & Architecture with SOA, Services & Microservices
- SOA vs. silo-based design; microservice application design
- Service capabilities and composition
- Eight service-orientation design principles
- Design guidelines for REST services, Web services and microservices
- Module 3: Fundamental SOA Analysis & Modeling
- Analysis roles, granularity and service models
- Agnostic vs. non-agnostic services; service inventories
- Functional decomposition; entity, utility, task and micro-task abstraction
- Composition and service API modeling
- Module 4: Advanced SOA Analysis & Modeling
- SOA project lifecycle and adoption planning
- Modeling REST services, Web services and microservices
- BPMN process models and DMN decision models
- Module 5: SOA Analysis & Modeling Lab
- Service candidate modeling exercises (insurance and e-commerce case studies)