A company is actively moving business applications to an ITaaS model. The IT department
increasingly acts as an adviser, proposing the best fit from either private cloud capability or public
cloud suppliers.
The company’s finance department is considering their financial applications for cloud as they

increasingly need more capacity and better performance at the end of the month, which the
current infrastructure cannot deliver. The financial application architecture is three tier
(presentation, middleware, and database).
The IT security team has suggested that with appropriate controls the presentation layer could be
deployed in a public cloud but the middleware and database layers cannot.
What would be the best approach to enabling service elasticity in this scenario?

A start-up cloud provider is evaluating potential resource allocation models to use for reserving
client resources. Their service offering targets software development and testing.
Which model would be most suitable?

The line of business (LOB) Services Product Manager has asked you to implement a solution that
monitors the actual resource utilization of your company’s private cloud infrastructure.
This solution should gather actual statistics of utilization and relate them back to the actual
infrastructure costs to show the realized cost to run the vApp within the company’s private cloud.
Which software solution would best fit the requirements of the LOB Services Product Manager?

You are a Cloud Architect working with a large financial services company. They currently have a
large, hybrid cloud that includes multiple CSPs. The company recently suffered a breach on some
of their web servers hosted at one of the CSPs and were not alerted to it.
Why might you recommend RSA NetWitness Panorama as a solution for the company?

A public cloud service provider wants to improve their IT capabilities in the following areas:
1 – Storage performance trending
2 – More comprehensive element management
3 – Holistic visibility across their storage services
4 – Security and Audit Log Management
5 – Reduce troubleshooting time
Which three areas is ProSphere best suited to address?

A health care provider is determining the best chargeback model for their organization. Their
requirements are:
Simple to measure
Operational costs should be amortized over a specific time period
Charges should be divided among the lines of business
Which chargeback model satisfies these requirements?

A health care applications software company has been growing rapidly by acquiring several similar
companies, which are based in other states.
IT is now struggling to provide services for developing, testing and supporting multiple application
teams. For each application, customer support must frequently handle sensitive electronic medical
records data that is subject to Federal compliance. No formal standards or policies have been
established across application teams relative to sensitive data.
With the goal of ITaaS transformation, senior management seeks to establish IT governance.
What would you recommend for a governance model, and why?

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 has already been completed
and a gap analysis has been done.
What should the Cloud Architect recommend to determine if business activities are aligned with
strategic vision?

You have been hired by a large, global manufacturing company to conduct a consolidation
assessment.
During the interview process, you determine which applications are most important to the
business. Key performance metrics are also collected. You also find:
Some applications see little or no use
SLAs for mission critical applications are 99.99%
Corporate email is considered proprietary and confidential information
Country specific regulations apply to certain applications
What should you use to determine proper application placement?

You are the IT Manager of a health care company. You have decided to move to the public cloud
and are evaluating various public cloud providers.
What characteristic would the best public cloud provider have, and why?