SOA-Architect Exam Information and Outline
SOA Architect
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 6, 2026
SOA-Architect 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: Microservice Technology Concepts
- Service implementation mediums, roles and message exchange patterns
- XML, XML Schema, JSON and JSON Schema
- HTTP methods, status codes and headers; REST constraints and hypermedia
- WSDL, SOAP and WS-* technologies
- Cloud concepts: scaling, multitenancy, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS
- Module 3: 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 4: Advanced SOA Design & Architecture
- Service and composition architectures; centralization patterns
- Endpoints, façades, event-driven and state messaging
- Service routing, API gateways, brokers and ESB
- Orchestration and compensating transactions
- Module 5: SOA Design & Architecture Lab
- Re-modeling Web services as REST services; API gateway and endpoint design