SOA-Professional Exam Information and Outline
SOA Professional
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 5, 2026
SOA-Professional Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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official SOA-Professional exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap.
The information below reflects the 2026 syllabus defined by
Arcitura.
Below are complete topics detail with latest syllabus and course outline, that will help you good knowledge about exam objectives and topics that you have to prepare. These contents are covered in questions and answers pool of exam.
- 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