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?

A. Discoverable, Composable, and Idempotent

B. Discoverable, Reusable, and Autonomy

C. Composable, Loosely Coupled, and Autonomy

D. Idempotent, Loosely Coupled, and Reusable

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?

A. Adopt the CSP's policies for security and their certifications

B. Use the roles and responsibilities defined by the provider

C. Determine what the service provider supplies for compliance requirements

D. Measure the company's requirements for transparency in security policies

An IT organization adopted the ITaaS model to offer services to their business units. They want to assess their readiness for creating and operating cloud services. What would be an appropriate assessment for them to perform related to governance?

A. Assess the readiness of the current service catalog

B. Determine the cost information needed for charging any service

C. Assess the skills of the IT staff to determine training needs

D. Assess the compliance needs and requirements for any service

You are responsible for building Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for your company. When building them for the service lifecycle of a cloud application, what should you consider?

A. SLA updates may be needed due to the availability of new markets

B. New SLAs should be created with the release of scheduled enhancements

C. SLAs should incorporate all necessary requirements when they are created

D. SLAs are contractual and cannot be changed without customer consent

An organization is using a hybrid cloud for services. They wish to mitigate the risk of compromising data confidentiality. How can this be accomplished?

A. Include digital signature capabilities in services

B. Establish a parent-child relationship of data records

C. Include an option in the catalog for service placement

D. Include a data-at-rest encryption capability in services

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 seeing delays in service delivery.

What would be an organizational cause for these delays?

A. Introduction of multiple touch points

B. Introduction of orchestration workflows

C. Decrease in service catalogs tenants

D. Increase in service catalog consumers

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?

A. Consideration: service usually has to be agnostic to context Tradeoff: complexity grows as number of services increases

B. Consideration: late or dynamic binding of services Benefit: requires collaborative service design

C. Benefit: can be human readable metadata Tradeoff: improved recovery from failure

D. Benefit: improves reliability and scale TradeOff: high degree of cooperation and agreement of design standards and conventions

A company plans to offer CRM, CDN, and ERP services. According to NIST, which services categories correspond to these offerings?

A. CRM: PaaS; CDN: PaaS; ERP: IaaS

B. CRM: IaaS; CDN: IaaS; ERP: SaaS

C. CRM: IaaS; CDN: SaaS; ERP: PaaS

D. CRM: SaaS; CDN: IaaS; ERP: SaaS

An enterprise is beginning its journey to ITaaS. An assessment of their current environment has already been completed. It has been determined that a change made -- even to a small part of the infrastructure -- requires the entire monolith to be rebuilt and deployed . As a cloud architect, what would you use to redesign the monolith to resolve this issue?

A. Highly modular, component based suite of services

B. Tightly coupled, services architectural style

C. Tightly integrated, open architectural style

D. Highly modular, monolithic architectural style

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 standardized service contracts and metadata definitions -Benefit: development and implementation cost reduction -Tradeoff: very finite capability

What characteristics correspond to the identified attributes?

A. Loosely Coupled, Composable, and Autonomy

B. Discoverable, Reusable, and Autonomy

C. Idempotent, Composable, and Discoverable

D. Idempotent, Loosely Coupled, and Reusable