An IT organization is transitioning to cloud services to support an ITaaS model. The CIO has informed their directors that IT must be managed like a business.
What must IT do to meet this strategic goal?
- A . Complete with the lines of business for company profits
- B . Complete with offerings from cloud providers
- C . Contribute to the company by becoming a cost center
- D . Become the single source for cloud services
A company wishes to transform to using cloud services. They have a good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but have not established the needed education, teamwork, and discipline to take them through the full ITaaS implementation.
As their cloud architect consultant, you need to take them to the next level in the service orientation maturity model.
What is the next level?
- A . Service Aligned
- B . Service Capable
- C . Service Aware
- D . Self-Service
A bricks-and-mortar electronics retailer wants to increase sales by selling products through an online portal in addition stores. To achieve this, they have assembled a team of software developers to build the online portal and the selling capability.
Which cloud service model should they consider to quickly develop this solution?
- A . PaaS
- B . IaaS
- C . SaaS
- D . BaaS
An IT organization within a healthcare company has embarked on a strategic transformation by adopting the IT Value Transformation road map. They have been successful in bringing out several IT services by adopting cloud computing. These services have helped the company release new products quickly into the market.
However, the IT organization is still perceived internally as a cost center.
What is the IT organization neglecting?
- A . Seeking more business opportunities for IT services
- B . Reducing the cost of IT services even more
- C . Linking IT spending to specific business outcomes
- D . Improving the utilization of compute, network, and storage resources
A software development company has asked for your help to improve their application development processes. After a complete assessment of their development process, you suggest that they implement DevOps.
What primary benefit should the company see after following your advice?
- A . Fewer tools required to develop software
- B . Quicker response to the marketplace with new products
- C . Improved cost transparency of IT spending in developing software
- D . Increased visibility of their products across the organization
An IT organization is very traditionally structured. The lines of business (Lobs) have been facing difficulties with the representativeness of IT. The IT organization wishes to move to an ITaaS implementation.
What would be a benefit to the LOBs?
- A . Improve the skill sets required for personnel in the LOBs.
- B . Increase the visibility of products and services across the IT organization.
- C . Get more budgets to run their business applications to meet SLAs.
- D . Respond quickly to the marketplace with new products.
An IT organization wishes to adopt ITaaS to offer services to customers.
What should the organization consider when designing services?
- A . Manage the entire service lifecycle with the goal of zero-touch orchestration and service installation
- B . Use different service template for different business units to design all the services to be offered
- C . Ensure services are tightly coupled so that each service operates effectively
- D . Ensure that each service has dedicated resources available all the time in the resource pool
What is a big inhibitor to risk management in cloud environments?
- A . Asset valuation
- B . Multi tenancy
- C . Perceived risk
- D . Data availability
An enterprise is beginning its journey to ITaaS, and has retained a cloud architect to assist them. An assessment of their current environment has already been completed. They have identified economic, functional, and trust requirements for their applications.
What should the cloud architect recommend they apply these filters against?
- A . Service Inventory Analysis
- B . GRC Scorecard
- C . Balanced Scorecard
- D . Right-Sourcing Workloads
A company wants to deploy services in a new cloud infrastructure. The cloud architect is helping the company design services and realizes that the company is having trouble because of a legacy, organizational structure. The company is seeing delays in service delivery.
What would be an organizational cause for these delays?
- A . Introduction of multiple touch points
- B . Introduction of orchestration workflows
- C . Decrease in service catalogs tenants
- D . Increase in service catalog consumers
An IT group within an organization is transforming to ITaaS in their private cloud. They plan to appropriately bill the lines of business for the resources consumed by implementing a chargeback methodology. IT will initially offer a Windows platform to the QA personnel to perform end user testing on the application developed by the engineering group.
How would they effectively determine the cost of a service instance?
- A . Use the Windows license cost and growth requirements, then factor in the number of service instances that can be supported
- B . Use the base hardware, software, and licensing costs. Add the growth rate, then factor in the number of VMs that the hypervisors can support
- C . Use the price that is used by a competitive CSP as a baseline. Factor in variable administrative costs, and then divide by the number of planned service instances
- D . Use the variable costs and fixed costs associated with the service, then factor in the number of service instances that can be supported by the infrastructure resources
An organization is currently virtualized, and the CIO is planning for the transition to ItaaS. They are striving to make significant changes to internal IT processes and policies in order to streamline operations, and to improve service levels by deploying automation and orchestration tools.
What is the most important consideration when choosing the orchestration tool?
- A . Verify that the compute, storage and network element management tools can gather the required data for centralized management
- B . Allow the chargeback tool to integrate with external service provider infrastructure for unified cost charging
- C . Integrate with existing heterogeneous IT management tools including service desk, service catalog, performance monitoring and reporting
- D . Allow addition of more IT services to the service catalog to meet the business demands
In a hypothetical future scenario, a security company has deployed a large fleet of surveillance drones to observe customer facilities. Audio and visual as well as radio spectrum and infrared data are transmitted back to the security company for processing.
The data is run through multiple virtual assistances and expert systems to detect and tag anomalies and potential threats in the data streams before passing team along to human security personnel.
What emerging 3 rd Platform technologies would enable the desired capabilities?
- A . Big data analytics, augmented humans, and robotics
- B . Robotics, machine learning, and big data analytics
- C . Augmented humans, robotics, and machine learning
- D . Machine learning, big data analytics, and augmented humans
An enterprise wishes to implement ITaaS to provide services for different business units through a service catalog.
As a cloud architect, what would you consider when designing a service catalog while keeping security in mind for this enterprise?
- A . Implement RBAC through the service catalog to control access and privileges
- B . Encrypt only service template information in the service catalog
- C . Ensure that each business unit has a dedicated service catalog
- D . Encrypt all the information provided in the service catalog
In the evolution of converged infrastructure, what are Turn-Key Clouds?
- A . Engineered systems designed to deliver discreet components in a predictable manner with a single personality
- B . Single-personality infrastructure for customers that lack the expertise in house to deploy and manage Converged Systems
- C . Factory fabricated systems that offer a complete cloud with multiple personas on top of common hardware
- D . Multi-persona factory fabricated systems with integrated cloud deployment models that are able to scale storage and compute independently
An organizations runs as Internet-based software service. To remain competitive with newcomers to the same market, the organization is transitioning from their traditional annual software release model on a monolithic stack to a quarterly minimum release model using cloud.
To achieve this goal, in what technologies should the organization invest?
- A . Stackless operations, DevOps, and continuous delivery
- B . Continuous delivery, cloud-native application design, and stackless operations
- C . DevOps, continuous delivery, and cloud-native application design
- D . Cloud-native application design, stackless operations, and DevOps
A company that provides cloud services has operation processes in place for service delivery.
The following information is desired:
– Measure consumption against available resources
– Track usage thresholds
– Produce usage trending reports
What type of process would provide this information?
- A . Incident Management
- B . Capacity Management
- C . Service Level Management
- D . Availability Management
A healthcare company decides to adopt cloud computing to offer new products and services to their customers.
What should be their biggest concern when it comes to storing and handling patient data from a governance perspective?
- A . Following industry rules and regulations
- B . Threats are mitigated by risk management
- C . All policies are followed in decision making
- D . prevention of unauthorized access and security beaches
The principles of Autonomy, Abstraction, Discoverability, Composability, and Reusability are all principles of what?
- A . Application profiling
- B . Service characteristics
- C . Delivery models
- D . Service inventory
A cloud architect is helping a company with a new service design process. The architect is concerned that the company may see delays in problem resolution that can impact customer satisfaction.
What did the architect observe that may have led to this concern?
- A . Virtual, service-centric IT organizational structure
- B . Single private cloud deployment for services
- C . Siloed, domain-centric IT organization structure
- D . Decreased number of touch points
A line of business has been using a public cloud provider and is now seeking services from the internal IT department. The line of business (LOB) has concerns about service performance and availability.
They also want to have a clear and logical description of services, capabilities, and key performance indicators. The organization would like to better understand support responsibilities and warranties.
What should the LOB obtain from the IT department to satisfy concerns?
- A . SLO
- B . Service offering
- C . Service template
- D . SLA
An organization wants to provide IaaS capabilities in a private cloud.
They have the following requirements:
– Each line of business must have access to its own services and templates
– Service templates should be as generic as possible
– Data encryption should be provided for only services that require it
– Each instance should use Microsoft Active Directory for authentication
– Each instance should have the latest OS patches applied
How can these requirements be addressed in a cloud design?
- A . Add one template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to create a tenant and then instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates - B . Add one template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates and tenant configuration - C . Configure multiple tenants in the service catalog
Add a template to the service catalog for each tenant
Provide orchestration workflows to instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates - D . Configure multiple tenants in the service catalog
Add a single template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to instantiate and customize instances and then assign it to a tenant
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates
In the evolution of converged infrastructure, what are Blocks?
- A . Multi-persona factory fabricated systems with cloud deployment models included that are able to scale storage and compute independently
- B . Factory fabricated systems that offer a complete cloud with multiple personas on top of common hardware
- C . Single-personality infrastructure for customers that lack the expertise in house to deploy and manage Converged Systems
- D . Engineered systems designed to deliver discreet components in a predictable manner with a single personality
An IT organization for a medium sized grocery retailer is considering adopting ITaaS. They are interested in offering services to the lines of business through a service catalog. As a first step, they performed an inventory of all existing IT capabilities.
What would you recommend as a preferred approach to building services in their service catalog?
- A . Dedicate resources to build perfect services that go beyond customer needs
- B . Offer services that are of highest priority to IT in the service catalog
- C . Use an agile, iterative way to quickly build services through a phased approach
- D . Offer all IT capabilities as services to the customer to provide greater choice
A Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a financial services company is facing a peculiar dilemma. Any line of business (LOB) request for IT services takes too long to be delivered.
The core problem that has been identified is that there are multiple ways to order services that involve cumbersome processes with several manual and redundant steps. The CIO understands that the order and delivery process must move to a new model.
Which model would be most appropriate?
- A . Bi-modal IT
- B . Adaptive IT
- C . Lean IT
- D . Value IT
A company wants to deploy services in a new cloud infrastructure. The cloud architect is helping the company design services and realizes that the company is having trouble because of a legacy, organizational structure. The company is introducing multiple touch points into the service delivery process.
What impact will these additional touch points have on the process?
- A . Increase in the number of APIs.
- B . Increase in service catalog deployments
- C . Delays in service delivery
- D . Delays in metric collection
An IT organization has hired you as a cloud architect to assist them in planning for cloud services. Your first goal is to help the IT organization categorize existing services against service characteristics.
You have provided a table that shows common service characteristics and their attributes for considerations, benefits, and trade-offs.
The following attributes from the table have been identified:
– Consideration: bundling services increases complexity
– Benefit: replaceable components, improved recovery from failure
– Trade off: very finite capability
What characteristics correspond to the identified attributes?
- A . Discoverable, Composable, and Idempotent
- B . Discoverable, Reusable, and Autonomy
- C . Composable, Loosely Coupled, and Autonomy
- D . Idempotent, Loosely Coupled, and Reusable
An organization wants to use a public cloud provider for IaaS instances. They will develop and deploy their own applications within these instances. The organization must follow health care compliance regulations.
What should the organization ensure before deploying their applications in the public cloud?
- A . Instances will not be placed in more than one availability zone
- B . Auditors have access to the cloud provider’s data encryption keys
- C . Cloud provider supplies data-in-transit encryption capabilities
- D . Cloud provider supplies proper controls and audits for compliance requirements
An organization is categorizing their existing services against service characteristics to determine how ready each one might be for the catalog. Part of this effort involves looking at the following three attributes for each service characteristic: considerations, benefits, and trade-offs.
What attributes correspond to the following characteristics: Discoverable, Idempotent, and Composable?
- A . Consideration: standardized service contracts and metadata definitions
Benefit: improves reliability and scale
Tradeoff: complexity grows as number of services increases - B . Consideration: standardized service contracts and metadata definitions
Benefit: development and implementation cost reduction
Tradeoff: high degree of cooperation and agreement of design standards and conventions - C . Consideration: late or dynamic binding of services
Benefit: improves reliability and scale
Tradeoff: high degree of cooperation and agreement of design standards and conventions - D . Consideration: late or dynamic binding of services
Benefit: development and implementation cost reduction
Tradeoff: complexity grows as number of services increases
DRAG DROP
A company has an incident process in place for the cloud services that they support.
What is the correct order of steps for an incident process?
A large IT organization has committed to transition to ITaaS.
What changes would need to happen in the IT organization to adopt this model?
- A . IT organization would move from a strategic business partner to a cost center view
- B . All the products and services would be delivered by the lines of business (LOBs)
- C . New service related roles and responsibilities would emerge to support the model
- D . Business users would acquire services that meet their needs quickly only through IT
You have been asked by a company to help drive IT efficiency, focusing specifically on direct, short-term activities.
What would you recommend?
- A . Begin development of a self-service portal for the business to develop and deploy applications
- B . Attempt to consolidate vendors of hardware and software running in the environment by simplifying workloads
- C . Identify applications with workloads that run infrequently or that require boutique services for migration to the cloud
- D . Initiate a cloud comparison initiative to compare the price of competing cloud alternatives
A line of business (LOB) has been using a public cloud and is seeking services from the internal IT department. The LOB has requested an SLA for each service.
Why would the LOB make this request?
- A . Need for a clear description of services, capabilities, key performance indicators, support responsibilities and warranties
- B . Need to understand what template is included with the service, the catalog entry for the service, and the associated dependencies and policies
- C . Need to understand the availability, throughput, frequency, and response time capabilities for the underlying infrastructure components
- D . Need for a clear description of terms and conditions for using the services of the IT cloud before actually using the services
An organization is categorizing their existing services against service characteristics to determine how ready each one might be for the catalog. Part of this effort involves looking at the following three attributes for each service characteristic: considerations, benefits, and tradeoffs.
What attributes correspond to the following characteristics: Reusable and Composable?
- A . Consideration: service usually has to be agnostic to context
Tradeoff: complexity grows as number of services increases - B . Consideration: late or dynamic binding of services
Benefit: requires collaborative service design - C . Benefit: can be human readable metadata
Tradeoff: improved recovery from failure - D . Benefit: improves reliability and scale
Tradeoff: high degree of cooperation and agreement of design standards and conventions
A company has an IT organization that is separated into teams that support different underlying technologies. Each team has its own budget and manages its own tools.
They have a clear understanding of current performance, capacity, and events. Team response to assigned help desk tickets is satisfactory. The company intends to deploy a private cloud and provide services to internal customers.
What service operation management challenge may this company face?
- A . Inability to provide accurate pricing models
- B . Inability to calculate fixed costs
- C . Time consuming root cause analysis
- D . Lack of control over service placement
An IT department wants to reduce waste by shutting down and archiving auto-scaling groups (ASGs) and VMs that have been inactive for more than two weeks. Archived ASGs and VMs will consume tenant quota for the responsible parties.
The IT department wants email notifications to be sent to the tenant and the line of business controller automatically when this happens.
How might you define the configuration for such a solution?
- A . Monitoring triggers for low activity
Orchestration activities for inactivity backup
Backup target as tenant’s object store
Monitoring alerts for inactivity backup - B . Metering triggers for low activity
Orchestration activities for inactivity backup
Backup target as tenant’s object store
Metering alerts for inactivity backup - C . Metering triggers for low activity
Catalog activities for inactivity backup
Backup target as tenant’s object store
Metering alerts for inactivity backup - D . Monitoring triggers for low activity
Catalog activities for inactivity backup
Backup target as tenant’s object store
Monitoring alerts for inactivity backup
An IT department has defined 50 service offerings in their service catalog to satisfy application developers. All services are sourced from within the private cloud. Many of the variants have only been deployed a small number of times. A big data platform is offered and being actively used by a team of data scientists.
The developers are able to customize the platform’s compute, storage, protection and network configuration upon instantiation. Because of the culture of the organization, no chargeback mechanism is implemented.
Within six months, IT finds that the environment has become very complex.
What can they do to resolve the problem?
- A . Implement a showback mechanism to influence consumer behavior when choosing specific resources
- B . Reduce resource contention between application developers and data scientists by using separate resource pools
- C . Standardize on a subset of offerings to meet the needs of most developers and minimize the number of customization options
- D . Offload the big data IaaS platform to a public service provider
An organization wants to provide IaaS capabilities in a hybrid cloud.
The organization has the following requirements:
– Each line of business must have access to its own services and templates
– Service templates should be as generic as possible
– Data encryption should be provided for all services
– Each instance should use Microsoft Active Directory for authentication
– Each instance should have the latest OS patches applied
– Consumers should not be given the ability to select which cloud to use for instance deployment
How can these requirements be addressed in a cloud design?
- A . Add multiple pools and one template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to create a tenant and then instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption in the template
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates - B . Configure multiple tenants and pools in a service catalog
Add a template to the service catalog with data encryption enabled for each tenant
Provide orchestration workflows enabling instance creations, customization and placement
Provide orchestration workflows enabling authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates - C . Configure multiple tenants in the service catalog for each cloud
Add a single template to each service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for pool placement OS updates - D . Add multiple pools and one template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to create a tenant and then instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates and pool placement
Which IT Governance principle should cloud services adhere to?
- A . Asset valuation
- B . Data classification
- C . Strategic alignment
- D . Risk profiling
As a company moves towards a DevOps model, they have asked you to help their developers achieve the following objectives:
– Repeatedly produce production ready code within short intervals
– Ensure more effective collaboration between developers and delivery personnel
– Align releases tighter to business needs
In order to speed up the cycle of service creation, what would you focus your attention on?
- A . Tools that help automate all steps of the software development life cycle
- B . Practices such as Agile and Scrum that codify application development
- C . Principles of continuous improvement within the Development and Operations organization
- D . Cloud service models for rapid development, testing, and implementation
You have been approached by a company to recommend a service model given the following economic drivers:
– 65% of developer effort is spent on maintenance
– There is a lack of reusable development components
– Multiple development environments are being instantiated without standardization
– There is a need for software minimum customization
In addition, developers would like independent control to test and provision their own environments.
What is the most appropriate service model to recommend?
- A . PaaS
- B . BaaS
- C . IaaS
- D . SaaS
A service provider is starting a new business for providing cloud services. However, they are concerned that their cloud infrastructure design needs to be validated by usage over time and then adjusted to handle heavy loads.
What can they do to mitigate this concern with paying customers?
- A . Not accept any heavy loads until the design has been validated
- B . Re-design their cloud infrastructure to accommodate heavy loads
- C . Design their costing model to include loss of unhappy customers
- D . Include a reimbursement policy for service outages in the SLA
When should risk be mitigated as part of the governance process?
- A . Before deploying applications in the cloud
- B . During the initial planning stage
- C . After user acceptance testing is completed
- D . During the strategy phase of the lifecycle
An IT organization in a technology company is in the process of adopting cloud services in an ITaaS model. They are seeking to reduce their operating costs while delivering business aligned services.
What is the most effective way to do so?
- A . Implementing automation in delivery of services
- B . Increasing utilization by encouraging multi-tenancy
- C . Implementing a service catalog and enabling self-service
- D . Aligning IT staff with lines of business to ensure agreement with business objectives
An organization wants to provide IaaS capabilities in a hybrid cloud.
They have the following requirements:
– Each line of business must have access to its own services
– Templates will be shared
– Service templates should be as generic as possible
– Data encryption should be provided for only services that require it
– Each instance should use Microsoft Active Directory for authentication
– Each instance should have the latest OS patches applied
How can these requirements be addressed in a cloud design?
- A . Add a single shared template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to create a tenant and then instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates - B . Configure multiple tenants in the service catalog
Add a single template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows enabling instance creation, customization and tenant assignment
Provide orchestration workflows enabling data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager for OS updates - C . Add one template to the service catalog with encryption enabled
Provide orchestration workflows to instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates and tenant configuration - D . Configure multiple tenants in the service catalog
Add a single shared template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows enabling data encryption and authentication in the template
Provide orchestration workflows enabling instance creation, customization and tenant assignment
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates
An IT department is using a number of tools to automate the expansion and contraction of the cloud resource pools.
Which cloud feature are they implementing?
- A . Elasticity
- B . Monitoring
- C . Trust zones
- D . Chargeback
An organization is beginning its journey to ITaaS. The services that IT provides are meeting the current state of well-defined business goals. Governance is in place, and they are meeting regulatory requirements for the regions in which they operate.
Teamwork, education, and discipline have been established, relevant business requirements and goals are defined, and the necessary organizational foundation for service orientation is in place.
As their ITaaS consultant, you need to take them to the next level in the service orientation maturity model.
What is the next level?
- A . Service Aware
- B . Service Aligned
- C . Service Capable
- D . Self Service
An IT organization adopted the ITaaS model to offer services to their business units. They want to assess their readiness for creating and operating cloud services.
What would be an appropriate assessment for them to perform related to governance?
- A . Assess the readiness of the current service catalog
- B . Determine the cost information needed for charging any service
- C . Assess the skills of the IT staff to determine training needs
- D . Assess the compliance needs and requirements for any service
An organization wants to provide IaaS capabilities in a private cloud.
The organization has the following requirements:
– Each line of business must have access to its own services and templates
– Service templates should be as generic as possible
– Data encryption should be provided for all services
– Each instance should use Microsoft Active Directory for authentication
– Each instance should have the latest OS patches applied
How can these requirements be addressed in a cloud design?
- A . Add one template to the service catalog with data encryption enabled
Provide orchestration workflows to create a tenant and then instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates - B . Configure multiple tenants in the service catalog
Add a single template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication in the template
Provide orchestration workflows to instantiate and customize instances and then assign it to a tenant
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates - C . Add one template to the service catalog
Provide orchestration workflows to instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable data encryption and authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates and tenant configuration - D . Configure multiple tenants in the service catalog
Add a template to the service catalog with data encryption enabled for each tenant
Provide orchestration workflows to instantiate and customize instances
Provide orchestration workflows to enable authentication
Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates
In the evolution of converged infrastructure, what are Appliances?
- A . Factory fabricated systems that offer a complete cloud with multiple personas on top of common hardware
- B . Multi-persona factory fabricated systems with integrated cloud deployment models that are able to scale storage and compute independently
- C . Engineered systems designed to deliver discreet components in a predictable manner with a single personality
- D . Single-personality infrastructure for customers that lack the expertise in-house to deploy and manage Converged Systems
What is a characteristic of traditional application development that differs from Agile development?
- A . All functional activities occur in multiple phases
- B . It follows the strategy of plan, develop, design, test, and implement
- C . The stakeholder is usually involved in only the planning phase
- D . Final acceptance testing is the responsibility of the developer
An online retailer has been experiencing tremendous growth in the past two years. Until now, they have been using a private cloud architecture to run their online business. In order to support the growth, they have decided to invest in hybrid cloud services.
What is a primary consideration when moving to a hybrid environment?
- A . Service architecture is simplified
- B . Service costs are high
- C . Software licensing a very complex
- D . Service consumption is low
An organization wishes to more efficiently produce services by unifying processes and methods from various departments to provide more cross functional integration. To achieve these goals, all elements of the infrastructure will be software driven and manual processes will be automated as much as possible.
What practice is this organization trying to adopt?
- A . DevOps
- B . Service Oriented Architecture
- C . Governance
- D . Agile
A service provider is preparing to offer PaaS. One of the challenges they are facing is incorporating the cost of databases.
What should you recommend as the best way to include this in the costing model?
- A . Treat database licensing as a variable cost in the model
- B . Treat database licensing as a fixed cost in the model
- C . Treat database licensing as a hybrid cost in the model
- D . Ignore database costs in the model
A financial organization recently deployed a private cloud. They also are planning to use public cloud services to meet their business application demands. They need to implement a measured services and chargeback methodology.
Based on best practices, which solution provides accurate and transparent reporting to the consumer?
- A . Use a mash-up of the internal private cloud and the public cloud metrics
- B . Deploy an internal tool to measure the private cloud metrics and use an independent tool to measure public cloud metrics
- C . Deploy an internal tool to measure the private cloud metrics and use public cloud vendor-specific tool to measure the public cloud metrics
- D . Use public cloud vendor-specific tool to measure both the public and private cloud metrics to get more visibility.
Your company is an application service provider that hosts customer applications and data in your data center.
The entire infrastructure is client-server based and you have begun to assess the risk of moving your web applications to a cloud- based infrastructure. During this phase you are required to provide the value of corporate assets involved.
How should you assess these corporate assets?
- A . Use realistic valuations
- B . Create a valuation that is information-asset centric
- C . Use original purchase values
- D . Create values based on accelerated depreciation
A company is in the process of utilizing exposed cloud computing APIs in order to access database, storage, and e- commerce capabilities for their cloud applications.
Which type of APIs are these?
- A . Infrastructure
- B . Service
- C . Application
- D . Configuration.
An organization is deploying services in a private cloud. Consumers are calling IT because they are seeing performance issues within the deployed services.
How should IT troubleshoot and identify these performance issues?
- A . Cloud administrator uses the monitoring tools
- B . Service manager uses the monitoring tools
- C . Cloud architect uses the metering tools
- D . Cloud administrator uses the metering tools
An enterprise is beginning its journey to ITaaS. An assessment of their current environment has already been completed. It has been determined that a change made – even to a small part of the infrastructure-requires the entire monolith to be rebuilt and deployed
As a cloud architect, what would you use to redesign the monolith to resolve this issue?
- A . Highly modular, component based suite of services
- B . Tightly coupled, services architectural style
- C . Tightly integrated, open architectural style
- D . Highly modular, monolithic architectural style
When should risk be evaluated as part of the governance process?
- A . After the strategy phase of the lifecycle
- B . Before deploying applications in the cloud
- C . During user acceptance testing
- D . During the initial planning stage