NO.93 A company is in the process of utilizing exposed cloud computing APIs in order to access database, storage, and e- commerce capabilities for their cloud applications.
Which type of APIs are these?

NO.94 A company wants to deploy services in a new cloud infrastructure. A developer is helping the company design these services and realizes that the company is having trouble because of manual, legacy processes.
How can the organization address the legacy processes?

NO.95 When should risk be evaluated as part of the governance process?

NO.96 A company has an incident process in place for the cloud services that they support.
What is the correct order of steps for an incident process?

NO.97 A company plans to offer CRM, CDN, and ERP services.
According to NIST, which services categories correspond to these offerings?

NO.98 An organization is using a hybrid cloud for services. Services are designed to use Load Balancers.
Orchestration workflows are designed so that services instances are placed in multiple fault domains.
Why are services designed in such a manner?

NO.99 An IT organization for a medium sized grocery retailer is considering adopting ITaaS. As a first step, they performed an inventory of all existing IT capabilities to determine the ones that could be offered as stand-alone services to their lines of business through a service catalog.
As a cloud architect on the IT team, what would you recommend?

NO.100 What is the primary challenge of the Service characteristic of Abstraction?

NO.101 An organization is using a public cloud provider for IaaS instances. The organization has developed and deployed a web application within these instances.
The organization wishes to formalize an SLA that includes the following terms pertaining to the public cloud provider:
– Respond to infrastructure outages within 4 hours
– Offer multiple availability zones
– Ensure that the application is accessible to global consumers 99.9% of the time
– Provide monthly billing reports
Why would the public cloud provider disagree with these terms?

NO.102 Your customer’s cloud applications are hosted by a CSP. You have been assigned to perform a compliance audit for the CSP’s cloud architecture using the CSA framework.
How can the company use the framework?

NO.103 You have been asked by a recently formed DevOps team to qualify the principles for Continuous Delivery.
Which method falls outside the practice of continuous delivery?

NO.104 An organization is categorizing their existing services against service characteristics to determine how ready each one might be for the catalog. Part of this effort involves looking at the following three attributes for each service characteristic: considerations, benefits, and tradeoffs.
What attributes correspond to the following characteristics: Reusable and Composable?

NO.105 Why should you develop and assess Service Level Agreements (SLAs) when creating service proposals?

NO.106 A financial organization recently deployed a private cloud. They also are planning to use public cloud services to meet their business application demands. They need to implement a measured services and chargeback methodology.
Based on best practices, which solution provides accurate and transparent reporting to the consumer?

NO.107 An IT organization has hired you as a cloud architect to assist them in planning for cloud services.
Your first goal is to help the IT organization categorize existing services against service characteristics.
You have provided a table that shows common service characteristics and their attributes for considerations, benefits, and trade-offs.
The following attributes from the table have been identified:
– Consideration: bundling services increases complexity
– Benefit: replaceable components, improved recovery from failure
– Trade off: very finite capability
What characteristics correspond to the identified attributes?

NO.108 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?

NO.109 An organization is deploying services in a private cloud. Consumers are calling IT because they are seeing performance issues within the deployed services.
How should IT troubleshoot and identify these performance issues?

NO.110 A cloud-based legal records management start-up is developing an overall service design strategy for a software offering. They want to use public clouds and CDNs to deliver their service geographically close to their customers, but they must handle sensitive information carefully.
How should the organization meet this goal?

NO.111 A company wants to deploy services in a new cloud infrastructure. A developer is helping the company design these services and has called upon a cloud automation engineer to help address some issues.
What issues does the developer hope to address?

NO.112 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?