SOA Certified Professional Cloud Technology Lab Sample Questions:

1. Cloud Service A is being made available on public Cloud X by Cloud Provider X via the SaaS delivery model. Cloud Service A is hosted by Physical Server A that also hosts cloud services being used by different cloud service consumers (and owned by different cloud service owners).
Cloud Service Consumers A and B access Cloud Service A on a regular basis and Physical Server A has been able to accommodate the resulting usage load After reviewing the implementation environment for Cloud Service A. Cloud Provider X determines it needs to enhance the ubiquitous access and multi-tenancy characteristics within this part of Cloud X.

Which of the following statements accurately describes a solution that fulfills all of these requirements?

A) The resilient computing mechanism can be implemented to address ubiquitous access requirements by making Cloud Service A available to a broader range of cloud service consumer devices, including desktops running Web browsers and various mobile devices. The resource replication mechanism can be implemented to enable multi-tenancy within the Cloud Service A implementation.
B) The multi-device broker mechanism can be implemented to address ubiquitous access requirements by broadening the range of cloud service consumers that can access Cloud Service The resilient computing mechanism can be implemented to establish the multitenancycapabilities of Cloud Service A so that it will be able to resiliency accommodate the additional cloud service consumer devices that will gain access to it.
C) The resource replication mechanism can be introduced to address ubiquitous access requirements by broadening the range of cloud service consumers that can use Cloud Service A via standard service replication. The virtual server mechanism can be implemented to enable multi-tenancy via each service replication resulting from the application of the resource replication mechanism.
D) The multi-device broker mechanism can be implemented to address ubiquitous access requirements by broadening the range of cloud service consumers that can access Cloud Service A. The virtual server mechanism can be implemented to establish the multitenancy capabilities of Cloud Service A.

2. Cloud Service Consumer A invokes Cloud Service A from Cloud X (owned by Cloud Provider X) (1). To fulfill the request from Cloud Service Consumer A, Cloud Service A needs to invoke Cloud Service B that resides on Cloud Y (owned by Cloud Provider Y) (2). After completing its processing, Cloud Service B sends a response to Cloud Service A (3). Cloud Service A verifies the response and then finally sends its response to Cloud Service Consumer A (4).

The guaranteed availability of the Cloud Service A implementation is 95% and the guaranteed availability of the Cloud Service B implementation is 95%. Which of the following statements accurately describes the actual availability that Cloud Service Consumer A can receive based on the described scenario?

A) Because Cloud Service A acts as both a cloud service and cloud service consumer in order to
process Cloud Service Consumer B's request message, Cloud Service A forms a dependency on
Cloud Service B. As a result, the combined availability decreases, as follows:
0.95 X 0.95 = 0.9025 or 90.25%
B) Cloud Service Consumer A benefits from redundant cloud service implementations, thereby
increasing the guaranteed availability as follows:
1 - (1 - (0.95 - 0.1))X (1 - (0.95 - 0.1)) = 0.9775 or 97.75%
C) Because Cloud Service Consumer A's response message is processed by two separate cloud
services, the combined availability increases as follows:
1 - (1 - 0.95) X (1 - 0.95) = 0.9975 or 99.75%
D) As a result of the dependency formed by Cloud Service Aon Cloud Service B,the combined availability decreases significantly as follows:
(0.95 X 0.95) - 0.1 = 0.8025 or 80.25%

3. The cloud service owner of Cloud Service A is evaluating Clouds X, Y and Z to determine which cloud environment can offer the greatest level of reliability. All three clouds are geographically dispersed across three separate time zones. As a result, each cloud experiences usage peaks at different times. Based on the metrics provided, the greater the usage of a cloud, the lower its reliability. When the cloud service owner complains to Cloud Provider A (the owner of all three clouds) that none of the clouds provide an adequate level of reliability, Cloud Provider A suggests a solution that increases resiliency.

Which of the following statements accurately describes a solution that can be used to fulfill the resiliency requirements of Cloud Service A?

A) A cloud balancing solution is established, whereby a resource replication mechanism is implemented on each cloud. This allows Cloud Service A to be automatically replicated across cloud environments, thereby enabling each implementation of Cloud Service A to take the place of another, whenever failure conditions occur.
B) A cloud balancing solution is established, whereby an automated scaling listener mechanism is implemented on each cloud in such a way that every cloud can automatically scale out to another cloud. As a result, if reliability problems occur on any one cloud, the subsequent requests will be scaled out to another cloud in a manner that is transparent to cloud service consumers.
C) Redundant implementations of Cloud Service A are deployed in all three clouds. The failover system mechanism and a special type of automated scaling listener mechanism are implemented to establish a system whereby one redundant Cloud Service A implementation will automatically take over from another.
D) A failover system mechanism is implemented on Cloud X, which acts as the primary point of contact for cloud serviceconsumers. Upon failure conditions occurring, the Cloud Service A implementation on Cloud X automatically hands over control of current and future message requests from cloud service consumers to Cloud Y. Cloud Y retains control of cloud serviceconsumer communication until the next failure condition occurs, at which point it hands over control to Cloud Z. Finally, if a failure condition occurs in Cloud Z. control is handed back to Cloud X.

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