The line of business (LOB) Services Product Manager has asked you to implement a solution that monitors the actual resource utilization of your company's private cloud infrastructure.
This solution should gather actual statistics of utilization and relate them back to the actual infrastructure costs to show the realized cost to run the vApp within the company's private cloud.
Which software solution would best fit the requirements of the LOB Services Product Manager?

• A. VMware vCenter Operations
• B. VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
• C. VMware vCloud Director
• D. VMware vCenter Chargeback

Refer to Scenario 7.
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A web hosting company has been growing steadily over the past year. Their single data center is at maximum capacity for power, space and cooling, and their physical infrastructure is also running at capacity. They are evaluating the feasibility of obtaining another data center in a remote location to enable further growth.
One of the web hosting company's eCommerce customers notifies them that they are launching an enormous holiday sale, beginning in a few weeks. They expect utilization of their virtual server farm to double or triple for the next three to six months. The web hosting company cannot deploy the needed resources in a new data center in time for the sale. They opt to purchase services from a cloud service provider using a pay-as-you-go model.
Over the next two weeks, Layer 2 connectivity is established between the two sites. The web hosting company's IT staff works with the CSP to configure the necessary physical and virtual infrastructure. All traffic to the public cloud is routed through the private data center, across the Layer 2 connection. A local load balancer is deployed in the private data center. Orchestration tools are configured to burst the service into the public cloud automatically when utilization reaches 80%."
After viewing the weekly trending analysis, you notice that the cost of resources allocated does not correspond to resource utilization. And the billing statement from the cloud service provider (CSP) reflects higher than expected charges.
What is the most effective action to take to rectify the discrepancy?

• A. Terminate the contract with the CSP and sign a contract with a public provider that better integrates with the solution
• B. Contact the CSP representative and renegotiate the terms of service of the contract
• C. Verify that the orchestration engine is configured to trigger the collapse of the underutilized resources
• D. Contact the CSP representative and negotiate a fixed cost model

In an effort to grow market share, a financial company has decided to expand their portfolio of web-based services to residential and mobile users. To improve adoption of these services, the software development team was given the requirement to encrypt data in flight without requiring a software footprint on the client.
Which capability best meets their in-flight encryption requirement?

• A. Cipher-text
• B. SSL VPN
• C. IPSEC
• D. PGP

An organization is expanding its private cloud to a hybrid deployment to accommodate growth in its web / database application. The CIO is concerned about the security risks associated with the public cloud. They do not view firewall security as adequate to protect important company data. Encryption is being considered as a security measure.
As the cloud architect, what would you recommend?

• A. Utilize database encryption.
  Tell the CIO that search look-ups can be resource intensive.
• B. Utilize application encryption.
  Tell the CIO that the level of control is very granular, and developer resource requirements are
  minimal.
• C. Utilize application encryption.
  Tell the CIO that search look-ups can be resource intensive.
• D. Utilize database encryption.
  Tell the CIO that the level of control is very granular, but substantial developer resources are
  required.

The marketing line of business of an enterprise has deployed web services within a private cloud. They wish to provide additional web services elastically and distribute them around the globe using a public cloud provider.
The web services have a loosely coupled design and have no content dependencies on any resources in the private cloud. They are created from a standard PaaS template, which includes an intrusion prevention system that periodically polls a central management server for security updates. The IPS management server is located within the private cloud. No layer 2 connectivity exists between the private and public clouds. The consumers of these web services are distributed across the globe.
Which solution would you recommend to best support the web service elasticity and to minimize service network latency for the consumer?

• A. Implement a global load balancing service as a front-end for the web services.
• B. Implement an encrypted VPN tunnel between the private and public clouds.
• C. Deploy a central database server to consolidate web service content.
• D. Increase bandwidth between the private cloud and the Internet.