EMC Dell Cloud Services Design 2023 Sample Questions:

1. A company is considering transitioning to ITaaS. During an exploratory discussion, a potential stakeholder asks for clarification on the key difference(s) between traditional IT services and a cloud services.
What is the correct response?

A) A cloud service is any service that uses one of the five tenets of cloud computing; a traditional IT service uses guidelines from a more traditional computing model.
B) A traditional IT service views the physical network architecture as a manually-scaled system; a cloud service relies on an underlying layer of scalable network architecture.
C) A traditional IT service is often provided without accounting for direct cost or business value to the lines of business; a cloud service is packaged to provide business value to the lines of business and support direct costing through showbacks.
D) Both traditional IT services and cloud services are capable of driving value for the lines of business through service catalogs and degrees of automation; cloud services make use of cloud tenets and are designed to scale vertically.

2. What is a characteristic of traditional application development that differs from Agile development?

A) All functional activities occur in multiple phases
B) The stakeholder is usually involved in only the planning phase
C) It follows the strategy of plan, develop, design, test, and implement
D) Final acceptance testing is the responsibility of the developer

3. Based on the recommendation of a cloud architect, an enterprise placed some sensitive data in the public cloud and implemented security mechanisms to protect this data. Recently, the public cloud provider's systems had a security breach.
The enterprise was not concerned because they felt their data had been completely protected. All of the services housing the data are protected by an intrusion prevention system (IPS) application, and no alerts were generated by the system. The cloud provider's logs show that the enterprise's services were not accessed or copied.
How did the enterprise protect its data?

A) All data in the public cloud environment was encrypted at-rest and in-transit The encryption keys were under complete control of the enterprise and were not available to the public provider
B) All data in the public cloud environment was encrypted at-rest only
The encryption keys were under complete control of the enterprise and were not available to the public provider
C) All data in the public cloud environment was encrypted in-transit only The encryption keys were under complete control of the enterprise and were not available to the public provider
D) All data in the public cloud environment was encrypted at-rest and in-transit The data encryption keys in which a copy of the keys were held by the public cloud provider in case the keys were lost

4. An online retailer has been experiencing tremendous growth in the past two years. Until now, they have been using a private cloud architecture to run their online business. In order to support the growth, they have decided to invest in hybrid cloud services.
What is a primary consideration when moving to a hybrid environment?

A) Service architecture is simplified
B) Software licensing a very complex
C) Service consumption is low
D) Service costs are high

5. An organization wants to use a public cloud provider for IaaS instances. They will develop and deploy their own applications within these instances. The organization must follow health care compliance regulations.
What should the organization ensure before deploying their applications in the public cloud?

A) Cloud provider supplies data-in-transit encryption capabilities
B) Cloud provider supplies proper controls and audits for compliance requirements
C) Auditors have access to the cloud provider's data encryption keys
D) Instances will not be placed in more than one availability zone

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