An IT organization for a medium sized grocery retailer is considering adopting ITaaS. As a first step, they performed an inventory of all existing IT capabilities to determine the ones that could be offered as stand-alone services to their lines of business through a service catalog.
As a cloud architect on the IT team, what would you recommend?
A. Patch Management
B. Authentication
C. Network
D. Storage
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 organization is using a public cloud provider for IaaS instances. The organization has developed and deployed a web application within these instances. The organization wishes to formalize an SLA that specifies that the public cloud provider will:
Respond to infrastructure outages within 4 hours Offer multiple availability zones Ensure application up-time of 99.9% Provide monthly billing reports
Why would the public cloud provider disagree with these terms?
A. IaaS instances are virtual and therefore do not require a monthly bill.
B. Availability zones must span multiple cloud providers.
C. Application up-time is not the responsibility of other cloud provider.
D. Infrastructure outages are not the responsibility of the cloud provider.
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
An organization falls under the compliance regulations for PCI. The organization will deploy applications in the public cloud and wants to use a public cloud provider that is PCI compliant.
How does the organization confirm compliance?
A. Provide third party audit documentation to the provider for review
B. Review the provider's compliance controls and third party audit documentation
C. Review the provider's infrastructure logs and access logs
D. Provide application logs to the provider for review
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?
A. Policies will be added that support each component of the service lifecycle
B. Policies will be added that support the addition of availability zones
C. The enterprise governance board will be expanded to include cloud architects
D. IT silos will be replaced with a business oriented framework
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
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
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 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