A public cloud service provider is facing several challenges in its IT operations:
1 – Rapidly increasing storage capacity needs, forcing frequent data migrations
2 – Transition to a converged network infrastructure with FCoE
3 – Deployment of several types of hypervisors simultaneously in production
4 – Long-term archival of very large volumes of tenant data for compliance
5 – In-flight encryption for tenants with stringent compliance requirements
Which challenge(s) would VPLEX address?

The operations department of a major hosting provider is under pressure to deliver services more
quickly. They have a significant 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. The provider is considering offering
cloud services.
What is a key focus area for driving higher operational efficiency and associated profits?

A large health insurance company has a mature ITaaS implementation. They have developed a
SaaS claims filing application for use in their internal telephone claims center.
Last month, a decision to sell policies through independent insurance agents was approved by the
Board of Directors. As a result, claims data must be made available in the offices of the
independent insurance agents.
Which body has the responsibility of defining data access to the independent insurance agents?

You are reviewing an organizations IT decision making processes in preparation for ITaaS. IT has
a history of implementing technologies and solutions that dont meet the needs of the enterprise.
What would you recommend to solve this problem?

A public cloud service provider is facing several challenges in its IT operations:
1 – Rapidly increasing storage capacity needs, forcing frequent data migrations
2 – Consolidation of disparate Fibre Channel fabrics from multiple connectivity vendors
3 – Deployment of several types of hypervisors simultaneously in production
4 – Long-term archival of very large volumes of tenant data for compliance
5 – Very limited application mobility across data centers, using array-based replication
Which challenge(s) would VPLEX address?

An enterprise’s IT department is transitioning to ITaaS. The IT department is developing a service
management methodology. They are uncertain about how much of the measurement data should
be stored, and for how long. One consideration is the trade-off between storage cost and data
granularity.
What would you, the cloud architect, recommend as a best practice?

Which describes the process for instantiating an IaaS offering?

An enterprise wants to deploy a single sign-on solution to utilize within their private cloud
environment. Their developers are experienced with the REST protocol, and they have a large
number of interns that are employed May through August every year.
Their primary goal is to build a solution that utilizes the REST protocol. Their secondary goal is to
be able to bulk load credentials for the interns into the system each year.
They have asked you to review the offerings from two identity providers. The results of your
analysis are shown below:
Provider A supports OpenID and OAuth
Provider B supports OAuth and SCIM
Which provider would you recommend, and why?

Refer to Scenario 1.

What can the IT department do to address problem (a)?

Refer to Scenario 4.

Your second goal is to demonstrate that the CSP solution will suit even the most demanding
application relative to backup needs.
Which application would you select for this test?