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 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?

You are responsible for building Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for your company. When building them for
the service lifecycle of a cloud application, what should you consider?

A company wishes to transform to using cloud services. They have a good understanding of Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA), but have not established the needed education, teamwork, and discipline to take them
through the full ITaaS implementation.
As their cloud architect consultant, you need to take them to the next level in the service orientation maturity
model. What is the next level?

An IT organization adopted the ITaaS model to offer services to their business units. They want to assess their readiness for creating and operating cloud services. What would be an appropriate assessment for them to perform related to governance?

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?