Exam 280 IBM Cloud Computing Infrastructure Architect V1

1. An enterprise is utilizing a cloud computing environment in which the infrastructure resides on the premises of the service provider, and the service provider manages the cloud infrastructure. The provider dedicates the clouds infrastructure to the enterprise and users access cloud services over a VPN. What is the name of this cloud deployment model? A. B. C. D. hybrid cloud private hosted cloud private managed cloud public community cloud

2. Which cloud attribute allows IT resources to be redirected for other service delivery functions? A. B. C. D. metering elasticity portability self-service

3. What is a benefit of the IBM Common Cloud Management Platform Reference Architecture? A. B. C. D. It describes IT transformation processes. It provides guidelines for cloud non-functional requirements. It describes common definitions for an optimized enterprise. It provides a design blueprint for common cloud management.

4. An application developer uses development tools and application platforms hosted in the cloud in order to develop, deploy, and host their application. What type of cloud service is this application developer using? A. B. C. D. Platform as a Service Software as a Service Development as a Service Infrastructure as a Service

5. Which type 1 Hypervisor technologies offer the most secure guest isolation for a cloud computing environment? A. B. C. D. Xen and Hyper-V PowerVM and Xen KVM and PowerVM VMware and Hyper-V

6. A company is building a private cloud and would like to leverage their existing server investment in the new cloud. Which statement is true concerning the company's desire to use their existing servers?

A. They can use their existing servers without making any modifications or adjustments. B. They cannot use any of their existing servers because private clouds do not use onpremise infrastructure. C. They cannot use any of their existing servers because building a private cloud requires new server technology. D. They can use existing servers if those servers are compatible with the server virtualization technology used in the new cloud. 7. Which elements of component failure must be addressed in a cloud operational model? A. B. C. D. workload and service failure application and workload failure server, storage, and network failure high availability and fault tolerant system failure

8. A company is building a cloud environment and wants to ensure high utilization of CPU resource in their data center. Which virtualization technology can help them achieve this? A. B. C. D. client server storage network

9. What is a qualifying criteria for migrating an on-premise application to a cloud environment? A. B. C. D. application performance under peak workloads application performance in benchmarking setup application performance in multi-tenant architecture application performance in single-tenant architecture

10. Why is software lock-stepping a concern in a virtualized cloud environment? A. B. C. D. It stops replication. It kills the cluster heartbeat. It requires asynchronous processing. It restricts a virtual machine to a single processor.

11. What is a benefit of monitoring in public cloud deployments? A. B. C. D. shared resources faster provisioning fewer physical servers maintain service levels

12. Which product is a core software component of IBM Service Delivery Manager? A. B. C. D. IBM Tivoli Access Manager IBM Tivoli Storage Manager IBM Tivoli System Automation IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager

13. A security architecture would include which operational approach? A. auditable logs of end-to-end operation flows B. sharing of management IDs so that Administrators can supervise each others

activities C. confidential security policies and practices for the cloud provider, to prevent any leak of operational processes D. control of customer virtual servers by cloud provider administrators as they can detect security concerns sooner than the customer 14. Which IBM product delivers analytics capabilities as a cloud service? A. B. C. D. IBM Analytics Services IBM Smart Analytics Cloud IBM Analytics Cloud Manager IBM Cloud Services for Analytics

Answer Key: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. B D D A B D C B C D D C A B