EMC IT-as-a-Service Expert Exam for Cloud Architects Sample Questions:

1. An enterprise wants to deploy a single sign-on solution to utilize within their private cloud environment. Their developers are experienced with the REST protocol, and they have a large number of interns that are employed May through August every year.
Their primary goal is to build a solution that utilizes the REST protocol. Their secondary goal is to be able to bulk load credentials for the interns into the system each year.
They have asked you to review the offerings from two identity providers. The results of your analysis are shown below:
-Provider A supports OpenID and OAuth -Provider B supports OAuth and SCIM
Which provider would you recommend, and why?

A) A, because it satisfies the primary goal
B) A, because it satisfies both the primary and secondary goals
C) B, because it satisfies both the primary and secondary goals
D) B, because it satisfies the primary goal

2. You are a cloud consultant recently assigned to help an international pharmaceutical manufacturer implement ITaaS. The company has a well-staffed, highly technical IT organization.
There are concerns that implementing ITaaS will be met with resistance, because the IT group may feel that their job security is threatened.
You are seeking an individual within the organization to fill the role of Executive Sponsor for the ITaaS transformation project. Which individual would be the best candidate to fill this role?

A) The CIO, who has close ties to the IT organization and is focused on emerging technologies for ITaaS
B) The Vice President of Operations, who is a good communicator and understands ITaaS as it relates to the business
C) A member of the Board of Directors, who holds a high enough position in the organization to drive change
D) A senior Finance executive with a familiarity of ITaaS, who is focused on cost savings possible with ITaaS

3. A financial company has made several acquisitions within the past few years. They currently have two primary data centers that are 50 km apart. Recently, an internal assessment was conducted to explore ways to improve ingress/egress utilization and to extend their firewall to the cloud.
Which type of firewall would best suit their needs?

A) Linked VPN
B) Load balanced reverse proxy servers
C) Federated
D) Reverse proxy servers

4. The line of business (LOB) Services Product Manager has asked you to implement a solution that monitors the actual resource utilization of your company's private cloud infrastructure.
This solution should gather actual statistics of utilization and relate them back to the actual infrastructure costs to show the realized cost to run the vApp within the company's private cloud.
Which software solution would best fit the requirements of the LOB Services Product Manager?

A) VMware vCenter Operations
B) VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
C) VMware vCenter Chargeback
D) VMware vCloud Director

5. A startup company is transitioning from a public cloud to a private cloud environment. As a first step, they will transition to a hybrid cloud model.
What is the best option for an interim single sign-on solution that can also be leveraged once the private cloud is fully implemented?

A) Public Key Infrastructure
B) SAML
C) Federated Single Sign-On
D) OAuth

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