EMC Dell Cloud Services Design 2023 Sample Questions:
1. An organization's growing development team has adopted a continuous delivery model for their SaaS offering. However, as the number of developers and code commits increases, the continuous integration (CI) system the organization built using traditional IT resources is beginning to strain resources. The organization would prefer to maximize the use of their traditional CI resources before making use of the company cloud.
How do you solve this problem in the least disruptive way?
A) Add a CI node type to the company cloud service catalog and configure the CI system to deploy onto the cloud only when all traditional nodes are in use
B) Create an additional CI system on the company cloud and deploy it only when all traditional nodes are in use
C) Convert the traditional CI system's hardware into cloud hypervisors to use the company cloud for all CI operations
D) Deploy VMs into the company cloud when the traditional CI resources are becoming taxed so that the new VMs will be ready when needed
2. You have been hired by an organization to help them transition to cloud services. While performing discovery of their application environment you realize that some applications have unique risk considerations.
How should the organization manage application security requirements?
A) Create a CVE database to handle security controls
B) Implement an intrusion protection system for the entire environment
C) Address security on an application-by-application basis
D) Adopt the public cloud provider's most stringent security standards
3. What is the primary challenge of the Service characteristic of Abstraction?
A) The complexity grows as the number of services increases
B) Dependent services may not work as efficiently in a decoupled environment
C) If the service becomes too simplified, then it will become dependent on other services to be useful
D) Other elements of the architecture may be required to manage stateful information
4. An IT organization is preparing to offer cloud services as part of adopting an ITaaS model.
What is a cultural challenge that IT has to overcome in order to be successful?
A) Enable good communications within each of the siloed domains
B) Ensure that all IT staff are conscious of costs
C) Improve vendor communications
D) Be organizationally agile to quickly meet market and line of business demands
5. A company plans to offer CRM, CDN, and ERP services.
According to NIST, which services categories correspond to these offerings?
A) CRM: SaaS; CDN: IaaS; ERP: SaaS
B) CRM: IaaS; CDN: SaaS; ERP: PaaS
C) CRM: PaaS; CDN: PaaS; ERP: IaaS
D) CRM: IaaS; CDN: IaaS; ERP: SaaS
Solutions:
Question # 1 Answer: A | Question # 2 Answer: C | Question # 3 Answer: C | Question # 4 Answer: D | Question # 5 Answer: A |