The promise of SOA is to promote easy modification to business processes through simplified application development and to remove the barriers of working with disparate operating systems, hardware platforms and data environments. These improvements are to be realized by viewing software and data as a service. With the proliferation of the Service Oriented Architecture Methodology, quality attribute requirements are of the utmost importance. Quality attributes such as availability, usability, security, performance, testability, audit-ability, operability, and modifiability are not only an integral part of SOA application development there are also a very active area of research. Some of the attributes have mature standards and tools available for the application developer and some require further research. This review is a summary of some of the research, standards, policies and issues that are related to the quality attributes of Service Oriented Architecture.