Which of the following statements are true?

• A. The application of the Rules Centralization pattern reduces redundancy by centralizing common business rules-related logic that would normally be distributed across multiple services.
• B. The application of the Rules Centralization pattern results in centralized business rules that can be applied at runtime.
• C. The application of the Rules Centralization pattern centralizes the governance of business rules so that they can be modified and evolved from a single location.
• D. The application of the Rules Centralization pattern can lead to a decrease in autonomy because it can introduce the need for an additional service to be part of service compositions.

Which of the following statements is false?

• A. The Messaging Metadata pattern can support the application of patterns such as Intermediate Routing by supplementing messages with activity-specific metadata.
• B. The Messaging Metadata pattern is not applicable to situations where the message sender and receiver need to participate in stateful or conversational message exchanges.
• C. Widespread use of the Messaging Metadata pattern can be seen in the emergence of many WS-* extensions that define industry standard SOAP header blocks that carry metadata.
• D. Messaging frameworks and technologies need to provide support for the reading and writing of message headers or properties in order to fully support the application of the Messaging Metadata pattern.

Because the Service Broker pattern is part of the Enterprise Service Bus pattern, the Schema Centralization pattern is also considered part of the Enterprise Service Bus pattern.

• A. True
• B. False

Which of the following statements is false?

• A. The Data Format Transformation pattern is applied in situations where there is a need to convert data between disparate XML schemas.
• B. Some transport protocols can be associated with specific data formats, in which case it makes sense to apply the Data Format Transformation pattern together with the Protocol Bridging pattern.
• C. The Data Format Transformation pattern is one of the patterns that comprise the Service Broker pattern.
• D. When applying the Data Format Transformation pattern, data format transformation logic can be the responsibility of a service fa?ade component that is tasked with converting between proprietary and standardized data formats.