A financial company has made several acquisitions within the past few years. They currently have
two primary data centers that are 50 km apart. Recently, an internal assessment was conducted to
explore ways to improve ingress/egress utilization and to extend their firewall to the cloud.

Which type of firewall would best suit their needs?

A hosting company has experienced a sudden increase in customer interest and wishes to
implement ITaaS. They are now hosting online shopping applications for several retail computer
and electronics companies.
Developers in the customer companies use their own internal credentials and have the ability to
publish applications and changes to their stores. Shoppers access these stores using a variety of
mobile applications and web browsers.
What should be addressed when migrating to ITaaS and implementing a service catalog for the
retail and electronic companies?

An IT organization is currently 80% virtualized and the CIO is planning for the transition to ITaaS.
Senior executives are concerned that IT supports too many services and that many of the services
are neither efficient nor necessary.
What argument can the CIO make to address the executives’ concerns and convince them that
ITaaS is the correct strategic decision?

A large service provider is designing a solution to protect itself against malicious content, such as
viruses in a SOAP attachment, and denial of service attacks.
Which type of firewall is most appropriate for their needs?

An enterprise has decided to implement a new service that will process credit card information.
They will deploy this service within their private cloud. They have a relationship with a public cloud
provider that claims to be PCI compliant.
The enterprise wishes to implement a service that is PCI compliant with the least amount of effort.
The service is protected by a policy-based intrusion detection system. Cardholder data is securely
transmitted to the web interface.
Which additional design elements would best be suited for this implementation?

An enterprise is beginning its journey to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), and has retained a Cloud
Architect to assist them. An assessment of their current environment is complete and a list of final
requirements is being generated.
What should the Cloud Architect recommend as the next step?

The human resources division of your organization is planning to deploy their health and benefits
application into the corporate hybrid cloud. The goal is to provide off-site employees access to
their records data from a centralized resource that is protected by the organization’s security and
compliance guidelines.
The manager of the human resources division would prefer to pay for the use of this application
with no fixed guarantee, paying for only the resources consumed.

Which VMware vCenter Chargeback cost model would best fit the needs of the human resources
division?

A hosting provider is evaluating potential resource allocation models to use for reserving client
resources. Their service offering targets companies that want to run a dedicated private cloud and
have mature personnel capable of allocating and managing resources based on their own needs.
Which model would be most suitable?

A hosting organization operates from two data centers and typically hosts very large customers.
The delivery and support of the IT Infrastructure is not service driven. The IT technical delivery
functions operate in silos. Customers suffer a significant lead time to establish new operational
environments. In addition, changes to applications that impact the infrastructure have a long lead
time.
One of the customers has requested a service-driven approach for a new business application and
its associated infrastructure. The hosting organization has agreed to build a PaaS offering.
Which operational tool and process transformation approach is most suitable for the hosting
company?

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