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?

An IT department wants to reduce waste by shutting down and archiving auto-scaling groups (ASGs) and VMsthat have been inactive for more than two weeks. Archived ASGs and VMs will consume tenant quota for the responsible parties. The IT department wants email notifications to be sent to the tenant and the line of business controller automatically when this happens.
How might you define the configuration for such a solution?

As a cloud architect you are helping your company plan for cloud services and you are working with a diverse
cloud team. You have targeted four key initial services and you have highlighted the following key
considerations for each service:
Determine who can access it and what can they do with it
Use overall management to map dependencies across the service
Define the workflow to instantiate the service
Your cloud team asks you which service area each of these considerations will most likely map to. What should
be your response?

A large IT organization has committed to transition to ITaaS. What changes would need to happen in the IT
organization to adopt this model?

In a hypothetical future scenario, a CFO wants the corporation’s intelligent lighting system to turn on only when
humans are present, as well as change color depending on the time of day and local weather conditions.What emerging 3rd Platform technologies would enable the desired capabilities?

A bricks-and-mortar electronics retailer wants to increase sales by selling products through an online portal in
addition stores. To achieve this, they have assembled a team of software developers to build the online portal
and the selling capability.
Which cloud service model should they consider to quickly develop this solution?