Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question
The daily mutual fund trading cycle consists of four key processes: Transaction capture, pricing,
trading and reconciliation. Transaction capture consists of two sub-processes: manual exchange
and loans and distributions (LSD). For transaction capture, retirement plan participants use an
online account management application to enter manual fund exchange transactions. For LSD,
plan participants use a separate application to enter requests. The L&D application determines
whether the request can be fulfilled based on the mutual fund balances held in each plan balances
and a set of business rules. Each day’s captured manual exchange transactions accumulate in a
transaction database.
ArchiSurance contracts with a third-party information service to receive a file of mutual fund prices

at the close of each trading day.
The pricing application uses this file to convert captured transaction into trades, and then validates
each trade against the mutual fund balances held in each plan. The pricing generates a trade file
with the minimum number of trades necessary. The trading application sends this file to an
external trading service. When the trading application receives a confirmation file back from the
trading service, it passes it to the reconciliation application, which updates the plan recordkeeping
database.
The account management and LSD applications are hosted on separate application server
clusters. Each cluster is a physically separate host that runs application server software on a set of
virtualized hosts. All of these applications use a database server infrastructure that is hosted on
another separate cluster of virtualized servers also on a dedicated physical host. The pricing,
consolidation, trading and reconciliation applications, however, are batch applications that run on
the ArchiSurance mainframe computer. All application hosts are connected via a converged data
center network (DCN), which also connects them to a storage area network (SAN) as well as a
wide area network (WAN) that is used to communicate with the external trading service. The
SANincludes two physically separate storage arrays, ere of which holds data for all databases,
and another that holds data for all files.
Refer to the Scenario
You have been asked by a team of IT auditors to show the applications used for daily trading and
the infrastructure that underlies them, including all ArchiSurance servers, storage arrays and
networks. It is not necessary to model the WAN or other external infrastructure.
Which answer best describes the applications and infrastructure?

A.
Option A

B.
Option B

C.
Option C

D.
Option D