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?

What is characteristic of the IT-as-a-Service phase of IT transformation?

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 company is assessing the cloud maturity of their existing capabilities. Which components should be analyzed
to establish the baseline maturity?

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?

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: Loosely Coupled, Idempotent, and Service
Contract?

What is an example of an overall governance principle for deploying cloud services?

What key features do Web Scale infrastructure and applications share that contribute to their success?

An organization is using a hybrid cloud for services. Services are designed to use Load Balancers.
Orchestration workflows are designed so that services instances are placed in multiple fault domains. Why are
services designed in such a manner?