A company is assessing the cloud maturity of their existing capabilities. Which components should be analyzed to establish the baseline maturity?
Answer : A
An organization will be deploying services in a new private cloud infrastructure. The organization has a strong enterprise and IT governance framework in place.
How will this framework likely be enhanced in the new cloud environment?
Answer : A
What is characteristic of the IT-as-a-Service phase of IT transformation?
Answer : A
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A European company has been providing web services within their private cloud. They now wish to make these web services available globally by using a public cloud provider. You are hired as a cloud architect to help them with this transition. In your analysis, you find that a different hypervisor is being used by the public cloud provider.
As the enterprise elastically provisions resources, what is a possible solution if the hypervisors are different?
Answer : D
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?
Answer : C
A company plans to offer BI, CDN, and backup services. According to NIST, which cloud service models correspond to these offerings?
Answer : B
An organization is using a hybrid cloud for services. They wish to mitigate the risk of compromising data confidentiality. How can this be accomplished?
Answer : D
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?
Answer : B
A mobile company has processes in place for service support. One process facilitates collaboration and is a placeholder for functional requests; another process contains metadata on systems, network, and software. What types of processes are these?
Answer : D
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?
Answer : C
In the evolution of converged infrastructure, what are Turn-Key Clouds?
Answer : C
As a cloud architect you are helping your company plan for cloud services and you are working with a diverse cloud team. You have targeted four key initial services and you have highlighted the following considerations for each service:
- Use overall management that maps dependencies across the service
- Define what metrics need to be collected for chargeback or showback
- Specify providerג€™s responsibility in meeting performance service levels
Your cloud team asks you which service area each of these considerations will most likely map to. What should be your response?
Answer : B
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?
Answer : D
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?
Answer : B
Chargeback models are being evaluated by a healthcare provider. Their requirements are:
-Simple to measure
-Operational costs to be amortized over a defined period
-Operational costs to be divided between all service consumers
Which chargeback model satisfies these requirements?
Answer : A