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Question Which one of the following is the most important in order to achieve the cost efficiencies typically sought

from cloud computing? Answers A. Asset Management and Business Resiliency B. Information Infrastructure and Energy Efficiency C. Business Resiliency and Security D. Service Management and Virtualization What is the definition of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivery model? Answers The capability provided to the consumer to deploy consumer-created applications to A. the cloud infrastructure using programming languages and tools supported by the provider (e.g., Java, Python, .Net). The capability provided to the consumer to use the provider's applications running on a B. cloud infrastructure and accessible from various client devices through a thin client interface such as a Web browser (e.g., web-based email). The capability provided to the consumer to rent processing, storage, networks, and C. other fundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications. IBM's approach to cloud computing is differentiated by our focus on: Answers A. Private clouds and Platform as a Service (PaaS). B. Workload optimization, deployment choices, and integrated service management. C. Software as a Service (SaaS) and industry cloud implementations. What is IBM Smart Business Services on the IBM Cloud? Answers A. B. C. A new membership cloud model designed to be shared by a group of organizations with shared concerns. A flexible and cost-efficient, cloud-based development and testing environment behind the client's corporate firewall. A packaged service, such as computation and storage, provided as a metered service similar to a traditional public utility, such as electricity

What is IBM's offering for online collaboration services using the cloud? Answers A. IBM LotusLive B. IBM Smart Business Cloud C. IBM Smart Analytics Cloud D. IBM Lotus Quicker What are some of the core components of Tivoli in Service Managed Clouds? Answers A. Visibility, automation, standardization, consolidat B. Standardization and automation, provisioning of servers, security management C. Infrastructure, outsourced business functions, support and maintenance D. User centric self service portal, automated provisioning and image management, security and metering

Which of the following is an accurate characteristic of the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud delivery model? Answers A. It allows for the deployment of customer owned software on a public cloud. B. It provides access to storage and virtual machines which can be combined and layered for running applications.

It is the capability provided to the consumer to use the provider's applications running C. on a cloud infrastructure and accessible from various client devices through a thin client interface such as a Web browser (e.g., web-based email). It is the capability provided to the consumer to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure D. consumer-created applications using programming languages and tools supported by the provider (e.g., java, python,.Net). What is the IBM Cloud? Answers A. B. C. Our new offering name for cloud on the IBM zEnterprise server Our delivery platform and architecture for public and private cloud services Our solution for automatic data synchronization between our public cloud and our client's private cloud environments

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Our multi-tenant, consumer, pay-per-use computing environment

Consulting services are NOT the only way to begin adopting cloud computing with IBM. Which of the following cloud-delivered offerings allow clients to get started? Answers A. IBM Application Security Services for Cloud Computing B. IBM Smart Business Desktop on the IBM Cloud C. IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise D. IBM Deployment and Planning Automation In what ways does cloud change the economics of IT? Answers A. Consolidation, automation, standardization B. Automating service delivery, exploiting standardization, rapidly deploying new capabilities

C. Visibility, automation, control Private clouds seem to negate the advantages of elasticity and scalability. Why would a company run cloud services for its internal users when public clouds are available? Answers CIOs are naturally cautious about moving their entire application infrastructure and A. data to an external cloud provider, but often choose to move mission-critical applications to the public cloud for ease of use and lower costs. Public clouds offer per-usage billing to monitor individual business unit or department B. usage of the IT resources and charge them back, and always provide governance mechanisms to manage expense. Internal clouds can provide some of the same benefits as public clouds: self-service, C. optimized utilization, faster time to market, but without some of the security and availability concerns that are sometimes associated with public clouds. Which of the following best matches IBM's most commonly used definition for cloud computing? Answers A. A service in which dynamically scalable, and often virtualized, resources are provided over the Internet.

B. A consumption and delivery model for services - for users, a way to consume them

and for providers, a way to deliver them. C. The offering of computing resources as metered services, similar to a traditional public utility

D. The delivery of software resources as a service over the Internet IBM offers Cloud Consulting Services covering business and technical considerations. Which of the following is NOT offered? Answers A. Database Back-up B. Software design/development/testing C. Security D. Infrastructure Cloud computing services generally fall into three service models. Where does IBM CloudBurst fit? Answers A. Software as a Service (SaaS) B. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) C. Platform as a Service (PaaS) Seventy-seven percent of clients surveyed said that reducing costs would be a major factor in adopting cloud. What areas of savings would this include? Answers A. Hardware, software licenses, labor and support, outside maintenance B. Energy, OEM software, outsourcing, hardware maintenance In what way can a private cloud can help businesses reduce a clients cost? Answers A. By reducing operations costs when deploying a self-service interface B. By virtualizing key business processes. C. By providing maximum control over data and infrastructure. D. By using their internal IT department to maintain the entire infrastructure.

What is the IBM Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCMP RA) and what is its purpose? Answers A. B. It is an IBM cross-brand effort for enabling cloud economics to deliver the foundational cloud management infrastructure for both private and public clouds. It is IBM's Smarter Planet cloud offering, which allows clients to integrate with our Cloud in a structured implementation that leverages industry best practices.

C. It is a technical reference model for use by GTS and GBS architects. When enabling the IT infrastructure to support cloud computing, certain components and capabilities must be addressed, such as Service Management, Financial Management and Systems Management. What others should be included? Answers A. ROI and TCO B. Consolidation and Business Practices C. Virtualization and Standardization What are the three workloads of particular focus for sales? Answers A. B. C. Collaboration, Analytics, Business Services Development and Test, Desktop, Collaboration Infrastructure Storage, Business Services, Desktop

Which of the following best describes multi-tenancy? Answers A. A principle in software architecture where a single instance of the software runs on a server, serving multiple client organizations (tenants).

The ability of clients to pay for multiple cloud services at the same time. The B. services may be contracted for short time periods, e.g. CPU usage or for longer durations, e.g. cloud-based storage or vault services. C. An architecture in which multiple servers (tenants) serves multiple customers. What three segments are represented in the Cloud Computing Reference Architecture to deliver common, reusable assets? Answers

A. Development and Test, Desktop, and Collaboration B. Cloud service integrator, cloud service authority, cloud service mediator C. Cloud service consumer, cloud service provider, cloud service developer What are the most common types of service models in the industry? Answers A. B. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) Data Storage as a Service (DSaaS), Community as a Service (CaaS), Application as a Service (AaaS), Middleware as a Service (MaaS)

C. Public, Private, and Hybrid D. Cumulus, stratus, cirrus, nimbus What are the primary cloud deployment models? Answers A. Data Storage as a Service (DSaaS), Community as a Service (CaaS), Application as a Service (AaaS), Middleware as a Service (MaaS)

B. Public, Private, and Hybrid C. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Process as a Service (BPaaS)

D. Cumulus, stratus, cirrus, nimbus What does the Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivery model provide? Answers A. A computing platform and runtime environment B. A platform where virtualized machines can be hosted C. Access to hosted applications D. Services integrated with private networks and applications Which feature of cloud computing optimizes availability by maintaining configurations and managing changes to resources? Answers A. Provisioning

B. Automation C. Elasticity D. Virtualization

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