An Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) agent __________.

An Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) agent __________.

A.
Can apply categories of policies in any specified order

B.
Generates a request to an LDAP directory to look up policy definitions

C.
Always fails if the Policy Manager becomes unavailable

D.
Intercepts requests to and responses from a client or service

Explanation:
The OWSM Agent protects access to a web service at the web
service provider (server-side Agent)
• Step1: The client posts a request to a web service
• Step2: The Agent intercepts the request, applies security policies (e.g.,
decryption, signature verification, authentication, authorization), and passes
the request to the web service
• Step3: The web service returns a response
• Step4: The Agent intercepts the response, applies security policies (e.g.,
encryption), and passes the response to the client