Exam 3: Migration to the Cloud

Faith has been tasked with migrating as many systems as possible to the cloud. She has a list of the systems that the IT department is aware of, but has heard employees talking about other systems that are not on her list. Which of the following might describe the systems that she still needs to gather information about?

Jeff has a dashboard application that can give him an at-a-glance look at the various virtual machines on his cloud infrastructure. He notices that one of the systems is showing memory usage at 95 percent. Which of the following types of testing has possibly been overlooked for that system?

Martin has been asked to look for weaknesses within the company's cloud infrastructure and create a report to be delivered to upper management. He is not to actually try and exploit any of the weaknesses found to determine to what extent they might compromise the system. Which of the following has Martin been asked to do?

Daphne is trying to log into her company's cloud-based emailsystem, but is getting an error message. Upon logging into the administrative portal, it appears the credit card on file has expired. Which of the following seems to be the issue?

Cara has requested some modifications to one of the cloud applications that the company developed internally. She pulled up the internal tracking application and sees that it has just gone through the change assessment phase. What is the next phase of the change management process that it should be in now?

Cato has received an email stating that the change that he requested has been completed and the tracking ticket associated with the change has been closed. Cato pulls up the cloud application to see the new features that he had requested but is disappointed to see that they aren't quite what had been described in the change request. Which of the following steps, or phases, of the change management process were omitted?

Fictional Corp currently has a data center that is not taking advantage of any virtualization technologies. They have decided that it is time to start looking at migrating to the cloud and depending less on their own data center. However, they have read that even the major cloud providers occasionally have outages that prevent them from meeting the 99.999 percent uptime that Fictional Corp needs, even if that isn't specified in the SLA of the major providers. Which of the following cloud solutions might best fit Fictional Corp's needs? (Choose two)

Fictional Corp has decided to outsource the development of a cloud application that it wants to have developed for its sales department to use. Which of the following might the company use to solicit bids for the project?

Fictional Corp wants to examine systems within their data center to determine how they operate under normal conditions and determine what resources would be necessary to be provisioned on a cloud service provider if they were to make that transition. Which of the following describes the records that Fictional Corp is looking to review?

Bill is trying to create a new web application to replace an existing system that is becoming outdated. The old application has been modified a number of times and the code has become rather convoluted over time, so he has decided to start over. However, the application that it is replacing needs to be usable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year with as little downtime as possible. Which of the following would be the type of system Bill is trying to create by adding in redundancy wherever he can?

Fictional Corp has several scripts that can be copied and pasted into their cloud service provider's platform to create new virtual machines with certain specifications. After one of the administrators runs one of the scripts, she goes through and verifies that everything was set up correctly, only to find that certain things were not set up correctly. Which of the following is the most likely issue?

Thomas has been tasked with implementing automation wherever possible. He starts to work on the first system where he knows automation would greatly benefit the company. What is one of the first things he should do before implementing the automation?

The Chief Technology Officer of an organization just got back from a technology conference where he learned about a set of best practices that many other organizations have put into place to help them be more efficient with their operations. Some of the topics covered by these best practices include change management and systems that store maintenance and configuration information for systems. He has determined that he wants everyone in his organization trained and up to speed on at least the foundational level of knowledge of these practices. What is the topic that the managers in IT should begin looking for training on?

Kathryn has been tasked with migrating several on-premises applications that currently reside on servers in the company's data center to a cloud service provider. As part of the process she has taken images from the local systems and put them onto the CSP's platform and now wants to run some tests to determine how well the environment auto-scales as demand increases. Which of the following best describes the type of testing she is performing at this stage of the migration?

Fictional Corp has recently implemented a change management process where a group of employees, through regular meetings, must approve or deny the changes that are proposed through a formalized process. What is the name of the team of employees that is responsible for approving or denying the requested changes?

Frank has just been hired as the new development manager at Widget Co. He was hired because he proposed that he could implement new methods such as one where new changes are deployed in small increments every 24 hours. Some of the team members don't quite understand it though, so he recommended they go read up on it. What search term would help them find the information they need to learn more about this method?

Allen has been tasked with the design, development, and optimization of automation processes. Which of the following is the term that could be used to describe his current set of tasks?

Fictional Corp uses a process to provide oversight to the development, maintenance, and retirement of programs that the company creates and uses internally. Which of the following would best describe this oversight and process?

Fictional Corp has grown exponentially over the first few years of its existence. Until now it had been using commercial off-the-shelf software. They've decided to create a development team and need to decide what the best method of development management is. Which of the following are the two most common methods that they might choose from?

George has completed the implementation of a new change to one of the virtual machines on the CSP they use that runs a few of the company's applications. He went back through and compared the results to the original approved request and determined that the change was successful. What is the next step that George should perform?