An IT organization has hired you as a cloud architect to assist them in planning for cloud services.
Your first goal is to help the IT organization categorize existing services against service characteristics.
You have provided a table that shows common service characteristics and their attributes for considerations, benefits, and trade-offs.
The following attributes from the table have been identified:
- Consideration standardized service contracts and metadata definitions
- Benefit: development and implementation cost reduction
- Tradeoff: very finite capability
What characteristics correspond to the identified attributes?

• A. Loosely Coupled, Composable, and Autonomy
• B. Idempotent, Loosely Coupled, and Reusable
• C. Idempotent, Composable, and Discoverable
• D. Discoverable, Reusable, and Autonomy

As a cloud architect you are helping your company plan for cloud services and you are working with a diverse cloud team.
You have targeted four key initial services and you have highlighted the following key considerations for each service:
- Determine who can access it and what can they do with it
- Use overall management to map dependencies across the service
- Define the workflow to instantiate the service
Your cloud team asks you which service area each of these considerations will most likely map to.
What should be your response?

• A. SLA, Operational Management, and Orchestration
• B. Service Offering, Operational Management, and Orchestration
• C. Service Visibility, SLA, and Service Termination
• D. Service Offering, Service Visibility, and SLA

A company is investigating creating applications on cloud infrastructure using microservices. The cloud architect has asked you to investigate technology considerations to ensure that the environment is designed for failure.
What is a valid technology consideration?

• A. Leveraging infrastructure to reorganize service workloads
• B. Utilizing command and control processes
• C. Ensuring ITaaS methodologies are embraced
• D. Avoiding business, people, and process single points of failure

A cloud service provider (CSP) has just delivered a presentation to your organization. The CSP emphasized the flexibility of their service offering and how they could easily accommodate the post- provisioning customization that your organization seeks.
During the ROI part of the presentation, the CSP explains how their use of automation and orchestration tools would streamline the execution of post-provisioning tasks. They did not, however, estimate the cost savings to your organization. You are helping to prepare an initial justification report for senior management.
How would you categorize the non-financial benefits of automation and orchestration tools?

• A. Time-to-market
• B. Time-to-deploy
• C. Time-to-deliver
• D. Time-to-value

You are responsible for building Service Level Agreements for your company.
When building them for the service lifecycle of a cloud application, what should you consider?

• A. Updates due to performance enhancements may be required
• B. New agreements should be established due to scheduled enhancements
• C. You should incorporate all necessary requirements when they are created
• D. They are contractual and cannot be changed without customer consent