A company wants to deploy services in a new cloud infrastructure. A developer is helping the company design these services and realizes that the company is having trouble because of manual, legacy processes.
How can the organization address the legacy processes?
A company is assessing the cloud maturity of their existing capabilities. Which components should be analyzed to establish the baseline maturity?
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 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?
An IT organization is in the process of transitioning to an ITaaS model and adopting cloud services. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is very concerned about the cultural shift in mindset that will be required in order to achieve success.
What might this concern be?
In a hypothetical future scenario, a small toy company wants to create a few small gifts for employees who have performed well throughout the year. The gifts will be different every year and will change color depending on the stock price and social media sentiment of the company. The company wants to manufacture these gifts in-house.
What emerging 3rd Platform technologies enable the desired capabilities?
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 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 company has an on-demand self-service portal. What is the most likely sequence of events in the service catalog when an IaaS service is provisioned?
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?
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?