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?

A service provider is preparing to offer PaaS. One of the challenges they are facing is incorporating the cost of
databases. What should you recommend as the best way to include this in the costing model?

A company wants to deploy services in a new cloud infrastructure. The cloud architect is helping the company
design services and realizes that the company is having trouble because of a legacy, organizational structure.
The company is introducing multiple touch points into the service delivery process.
What impact will these additional touch points have on the process?

An IT organization for a medium sized grocery retailer is considering adopting ITaaS. They are interested in offering services to the lines of business through a service catalog. As a first step, they performed an inventory of all existing IT capabilities.
What would you recommend as a preferred approach to building services in their service catalog?

Your company requires a service funding model that will allow it to make short term spending decisions as part
of an incremental strategic spending program. Which funding model should you recommend?

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