Dell Cloud Services Design 2023 (D-CS-DS-23) Free Practice Test

Question 1

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-deliver

B. Time-to-value

C. Time-to-deploy

D. Time-to-market

Correct Answer: B

Question 2

A company has an IT organization that is separated into teams that support different underlying technologies. Each team has its own budget and manages its own tools.
They have a clear understanding of current performance, capacity, and events. Team response to assigned help desk tickets is satisfactory. The company intends to deploy a private cloud and provide services to internal customers.
What service operation management challenge may this company face?

A. Time consuming root cause analysis

B. Inability to provide accurate pricing models

C. Lack of control over service placement

D. Inability to calculate fixed costs

Correct Answer: C

Question 3

In the evolution of converged infrastructure, what are Appliances?

A. Factory fabricated systems that offer a complete cloud with multiple personas on top of common hardware

B. Single-personality infrastructure for customers that lack the expertise in-house to deploy and manage Converged Systems

C. Engineered systems designed to deliver discreet components in a predictable manner with a single personality

D. Multi-persona factory fabricated systems with integrated cloud deployment models that are able to scale storage and compute independently

Correct Answer: A

Question 4

An IT organization for a medium sized grocery retailer is considering adopting ITaaS. They are interested in offering services to the lines of business through a service catalog. As a first step, they performed an inventory of all existing IT capabilities.
What would you recommend as a preferred approach to building services in their service catalog?

A. Dedicate resources to build perfect services that go beyond customer needs

B. Offer services that are of highest priority to IT in the service catalog

C. Use an agile, iterative way to quickly build services through a phased approach

D. Offer all IT capabilities as services to the customer to provide greater choice

Correct Answer: C

Question 5

A company is considering transitioning to ITaaS. During an exploratory discussion, a potential stakeholder asks for clarification on the key difference(s) between traditional IT services and a cloud services.
What is the correct response?

A. A traditional IT service views the physical network architecture as a manually-scaled system; a cloud service relies on an underlying layer of scalable network architecture.

B. A traditional IT service is often provided without accounting for direct cost or business value to the lines of business; a cloud service is packaged to provide business value to the lines of business and support direct costing through showbacks.

C. Both traditional IT services and cloud services are capable of driving value for the lines of business through service catalogs and degrees of automation; cloud services make use of cloud tenets and are designed to scale vertically.

D. A cloud service is any service that uses one of the five tenets of cloud computing; a traditional IT service uses guidelines from a more traditional computing model.

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

What is the most important goal of an IT transformation to the cloud?

A. IT operates more efficiently and at less cost

B. IT is aligned to business outcomes and demonstrates value

C. IT should be a broker for external services

D. IT should be more responsive and agile

Correct Answer: A

Question 7

In a hypothetical future scenario, a security company has deployed a large fleet of surveillance drones to observe customer facilities. Audio and visual as well as radio spectrum and infrared data are transmitted back to the security company for processing.
The data is run through multiple virtual assistances and expert systems to detect and tag anomalies and potential threats in the data streams before passing team along to human security personnel.
What emerging 3 rd Platform technologies would enable the desired capabilities?

A. Big data analytics, augmented humans, and robotics

B. Augmented humans, robotics, and machine learning

C. Machine learning, big data analytics, and augmented humans

D. Robotics, machine learning, and big data analytics

Correct Answer: D

Question 8

In a hypothetical future scenario, a CFO wants the corporation's intelligent lighting system to turn on only when humans are present, as well as change color depending on the time of day and local weather conditions.
What emerging 3rd Platform technologies would enable the desired capabilities?

A. Sensor networks and big data analytics

B. Augmented humans and Internet of Things

C. Internet of Things and sensor networks

D. Big data analytics and augmented humans

Correct Answer: C

Question 9

An IT group within an organization is transforming to ITaaS in their private cloud. They plan to appropriately bill the lines of business for the resources consumed by implementing a chargeback methodology. IT will initially offer a Windows platform to the QA personnel to perform end user testing on the application developed by the engineering group.
How would they effectively determine the cost of a service instance?

A. Use the base hardware, software, and licensing costs. Add the growth rate, then factor in the number of VMs that the hypervisors can support

B. Use the price that is used by a competitive CSP as a baseline. Factor in variable administrative costs, and then divide by the number of planned service instances

C. Use the Windows license cost and growth requirements, then factor in the number of service instances that can be supported

D. Use the variable costs and fixed costs associated with the service, then factor in the number of service instances that can be supported by the infrastructure resources

Correct Answer: D

Question 10

Your company is an application service provider that hosts customer applications and data in your data center. The entire infrastructure is client-server based and you have begun assess the risk of moving your web applications to a cloud-based infrastructure. During this phase you are required to provide an initial classification of the application data.
How should you perform the initial classification?

A. Use a quick-scoring system

B. Categorize based on SOC controls

C. Assign to a CSM scoring matrix

D. Break down the data into initial categories

Correct Answer: A

Question 11

A service provider is starting a new business for providing cloud services. However, they are concerned that their cloud infrastructure design needs to be validated by usage over time and then adjusted to handle heavy loads.
What can they do to mitigate this concern with paying customers?

A. Include a reimbursement policy for service outages in the SLA

B. Re-design their cloud infrastructure to accommodate heavy loads

C. Design their costing model to include loss of unhappy customers

D. Not accept any heavy loads until the design has been validated

Correct Answer: D

Question 12

An IT organization is conducting an inventory of their existing services against service characteristics to determine how ready each one might be for the catalog.
An SSO authentication service has the following attributes:
- It can execute without other services
- It uses a minimalist approach
- It can be bundled with other services
What service characteristics correspond to the identified attributes?

A. Abstraction, Idempotent, and Reusable

B. Composable, Discoverable, and Idempotent

C. Autonomy, Discoverable, and Reusable

D. Abstraction, Autonomy, and Composable

Correct Answer: D

Question 13

An IT organization is transitioning to cloud services to support an ITaaS model. The CIO has informed their directors that IT must compete with offerings from cloud providers.
What strategic goal does this directive support?

A. Manage IT like a business

B. Transition to a cost center

C. Provide additional siloed service

D. Enable custom services

Correct Answer: A

Question 14

An organization is beginning its journey to ITaaS. The services that IT provides are meeting the current state of well-defined business goals. Governance is in place, and they are meeting regulatory requirements for the regions in which they operate.
Teamwork, education, and discipline have been established, relevant business requirements and goals are defined, and the necessary organizational foundation for service orientation is in place.
As their ITaaS consultant, you need to take them to the next level in the service orientation maturity model.
What is the next level?

A. Service Aligned

B. Service Aware

C. Self Service

D. Service Capable

Correct Answer: A

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