E20-920 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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

An IT organization for a leading apparel retailer has a relatively small budget to deliver IT services. They are functioning in a legacy operating model and face typical challenges of up-front costs, underutilized resources, and low productivity.

What is the most important financial goal for them in offering cloud services?

A. Adopt a Cost to Serve model

B. Reduce their capital expenses

C. Be more transparent about their costs

D. Hire executives with strong financial backgrounds

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 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 Consumers should 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 and authentication Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates and pool placement

B. Configure multiple tenants in the service catalog Add a single 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 pool placement OS updates

C. 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

D. Configure multiple tenants and pools in the service catalog Add a template to the service catalog for each tenant Provide orchestration workflows enabling instance creations, customization and placement Provide orchestration workflows enabling data encryption and authentication Enable a configuration manager policy for OS updates

You are designing a cloud services architecture for a company. You have determined that running some of the customer facing applications the company uses in a public cloud would save a significant amount of money but the security

department wants to retain control of customer data at rest. The application infrastructure consists of two database servers and eight web servers.

How can you architect the application to minimize the risk involved with data exposure?

A. Host the application servers in the public cloud and host the databases in the private cloud.

B. Scale the application horizontally by utilizing a hybrid cloud where the application and database are mirrored a public cloud.

C. Cluster four of the application servers and one database server in the public cloud and the remaining servers in the private cloud.

D. Host the application servers and database servers in the public cloud and set up RBAC to restrict access to the applications

A company is considering transitioning to ITaaS. During an exploratory discussion, a potential stakeholder asks for clarification on the key difference(s) between traditional IT services and a cloud services.

What is the correct response?

A. A traditional IT service is often provided without accounting for direct cost or business value to the lines of business; a cloud service is packaged to provide business value to the lines of business and support direct costing through showbacks.

B. A traditional IT service views the physical network architecture as a manually-scaled system; a cloud service relies on an underlying layer of scalable network architecture.

C. A cloud service is any service that uses one of the five tenets of cloud computing; a traditional IT service uses guidelines from a more traditional computing model.

D. Both traditional IT services and cloud services are capable of driving value for the lines of business through service catalogs and degrees of automation; cloud services make use of cloud tenets and are designed to scale vertically.

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

What is the key consideration during design phase for a service provider to ensure that they can effectively process the termination of a service instance?

A. Archive the associated service data regardless of the user requirements

B. Automate the de-provisioning process to release resources back into the pools

C. Incorporate a service grace to prevent the actual deletion of the instance

D. Create a retention period for private user data and user PCI data.

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 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.

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