A healthcare company decides to adopt cloud computing to offer new products and services to their customers. What should be their biggest concern when it comes to storing and handling patient data from a governance perspective?
A company plans to offer CRM, CDN, and ERP services. According to NIST, which services categories correspond to these offerings?
An appliances manufacturing company that has been in business for many decades is concerned about the slowing growth in their business. They feel that this is mainly due to not being able to retain customers.
Which industry force and related technology need might be impacting this?
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?
An IT organization wishes to adopt ITaaS to offer services to customers. What should the organization consider when designing services?
A line of business has been using a public cloud provider and is now seeking services from the internal IT department. The line of business (LOB) has concerns about service performance and availability. They also want to have a clear and logical description of services, capabilities, and key performance indicators. The organization would like to better understand support responsibilities and warranties.
What should the LOB obtain from the IT department to satisfy concerns?
An IT organization is very traditionally structured. The lines of business (Lobs) have been facing difficulties with the representativeness of IT. The IT organization wishes to move to an ITaaS implementation.
What would be a benefit to the LOBs?
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 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?
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:
Your cloud team asks you which service area each of these considerations will most likely map to. What should be your response?
In a hypothetical future scenario, a small toy company wants to create a few small gifts for employees who have performed well throughout the year. The gifts will be different every year and will change color depending on the stock price and social media sentiment of the company. The company wants to manufacture these gifts in-house.
What emerging 3rd Platform technologies enable the desired capabilities?
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 organization wants to provide IaaS capabilities in a hybrid cloud. They have the following requirements:
- Each line of business must have access to its own services
- Templates will be shared
- Service templates should be as generic as possible
- Data encryption should be provided for only services that require it
- Each instance should use Microsoft Active Directory for authentication
- Each instance should have the latest OS patches applied
How can these requirements be addressed in a cloud design?