An organization wants to provide IaaS capabilities in a private 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
How can these requirements be addressed in a cloud design?

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 inhouse.What emerging 3rd Platform technologies enable the desired capabilities?

The CFO is discussing with you a chargeback model for critical qualities of service. The model must allow for:
Control of service usage over a short period of time (hours)
Granular control of system load such as latency of applications
Which chargeback model should you recommend?

You are architecting a new cloud application for your company. You have been tasked to determine the impact
of the company’s required governance directives across the full lifecycle. What governance element should you
apply during the build of the service?

Your company is an application service provider that hosts customer applications and data in your data center.
The entire infrastructure is client-server based and you have begun to assess the risk of moving your web
applications to a cloud-based infrastructure. During this phase you are required to provide the value of
corporate assets involved.
How should you assess these corporate assets?

An organization falls under the compliance regulations for PCI. The organization will deploy applications in the
public cloud and wants to use a public cloud provider that is PCI compliant.
How does the organization confirm compliance?

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?

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?

The operations department of a major hosting provider is under pressure to deliver services more quickly. They
have a large number of tools for managing IT technologies across the data center. Although investments in
virtualization and automation have been made, it still takes months to provision basic IT services to meet new
customer demands. Hence, the provider is considering offering cloud services.
What is a key focus area for driving higher operational efficiency and associated profits?

What is the most important goal of an IT transformation to the cloud?