Cloud Service A is hosted by Virtual Server A. Cloud Storage Device A contains LUN A. Cloud Storage Device A is a multi-tiered cloud storage device with different types of disk groups that perform at different levels. LUN A is located in the disk group with the highest performance level. Cloud Service B is hosted by Virtual Server B. Virtual Servers A and B are hosted by HypervisorA, which is installed on a physical server (not shown) that resides in Cloud A. A redundant implementation of LUN A is replicated synchronously to Cloud Storage Device C. Cloud Storage Device C does not support multiple types of disk groups and resides in Cloud B, which is located in a different geographic region than Cloud A. Requests that cloud service consumers send to Cloud Services A and B are intercepted by an automated scaling listener responsible for initiating scaling activities. 
Cloud Service Consumer A issues a request to Cloud Service A (1). To process the request, Cloud Service A accesses LUN Aon Cloud Storage Device A (2). Cloud Service Consumer B issues a request to Cloud Service B (3). To process the request, Cloud Service B accesses LUN B on Cloud Storage Device B (4). When Cloud Service Consumer A accesses Cloud Service A, there is usually no noticeable performance fluctuation, even during peak usage periods. However, recently, Cloud Storage Device A became unexpectedly unavailable, requiring that Cloud Service A access LUN A on Cloud Storage Device C instead. During the following outage period for Cloud Storage Device A, Cloud Service Consumer A encounters inconsistent performance from Cloud Service A, including unusual delays that occur whenever the data requested by Cloud Consumer A isn't cached and Cloud Service A is required to retrieve the data from LUN A. Which of the following statements describes a solution that can address this problem?
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Cloud Service A and Cloud Service B perform different functions but both share access to Cloud Storage Device A when fulfilling requests from cloud service consumers that require data access. Cloud Services A and B are hosted by Virtual Server A, which is hosted by Hypervisor A on Physical Server A. Cloud Service Consumer A accesses Cloud Service A to issue a request for data (1). Cloud Service A queries a database in Cloud Storage Device A to retrieve the data (2). Upon receiving the requested data, Cloud Service Consumer A combines it with additional data to form a new collection of data. Cloud Service Consumer A then accesses Cloud Service B and provides it with the new data (3). Cloud Service B accesses a different database in Cloud Storage Device A to store the new data (4). Cloud Consumer B accesses the usage and administration portal to upload new data (5). The data is uploaded to Cloud Storage Device B (6). Cloud Service Consumer A belongs to Organization A. Cloud Consumer B belongs to Organization B. 
Cloud Service A is a SaaS product offered by the cloud provider to the general public, and is therefore used by numerous cloud consumers from different organizations at different times. Cloud Service B is also a SaaS product as part of the same overall solution as Cloud Service A. However, because a given cloud service consumer only needs to access Cloud Service B when the data it receives from Cloud Service A meets certain criteria, it is not used nearly as much as Cloud Service A. Cloud Service A currently has a hard threshold allowing no more than 10 concurrent instances of it to exist at once. One day, Cloud Service Consumer A attempts to access Cloud Service A as the eleventh cloud service consumer, and is predictably rejected. Cloud Service Consumer A belongs to Organization A, one of the cloud provider's most important customers. Therefore, when Organization A complains about not being able to access Cloud Service A during peak usage times, the cloud provider agrees to provide a solution. As a result of a natural disaster, the cloud provider's data center that houses Physical Server A becomes unexpectedly unavailable. Physical Server A subsequently becomes unavailable for nearly two days. This outage exceeds what the cloud provider guaranteed in its original SLA and the cloud provider agrees to not charge Organization for usage fees for an entire month as compensation. However, the unavailability of Physical Server A had a significant impact on Organization As business, resulting in financial loss and loss of confidence of its clients. Organization A informs the cloud provider that it cannot continue working with this cloud unless the cloud provider can guarantee that the availability of Physical Server A will no longer be dependent on a single data center or a single geographic region. Organization B receives its latest monthly invoice from the cloud provider and discovers that the charges are identical to the invoice it received last month, even though the usage and administration portal shows that its data usage is a third less. They bring this issue to the attention of the cloud provider and are informed that they are currently subscribed to a fixed-allocation plan. The cloud provider explains that in order to get them on a plan whereby they are charged only for actual data usage, Cloud Storage Device B would need to be upgraded and a system capable of tracking runtime usage would need to be established. Organization B asks the cloud provider to make these changes. Which of the following statements provides a solution that can address Organization A's and Organization B's issues?
A cloud provider has two cloud environments (Cloud A and Cloud B) that are in different geographical regions. Cloud Service A resides in Cloud A. A redundant implementation of Cloud Service A resides in Cloud B. An automated scaling listener is used in Cloud A to automatically balance the workload of requests for Cloud Service A across the two redundant implementations. Cloud Service A is required to access Cloud Storage Device A, which also resides in Cloud A. A redundant implementation of Cloud Storage Device A is located in Cloud B. A failover system is used to ensure that if the Cloud Storage Device A implementation in Cloud A fails, the Cloud Storage Device A implementation in Cloud B takes its place. Cloud Service Consumer A is owned by Organization A. Cloud Service Consumer A sends a request to Cloud Service A (1). The automated scaling listener intercepts the request and directs it to the Cloud Service A implementation in Cloud A (2). This Cloud Service A implementation attempts to access Cloud Storage Device A in Cloud A, but Cloud Storage Device A fails (3). The failover system redirects the request to Cloud Storage Device A in Cloud B (4). Cloud Service Consumer B sends a request to Cloud Service A (5). The automated scaling listener intercepts the request and directs it to the Cloud Service A implementation in Cloud B (6). This Cloud Service A implementation accesses Cloud Storage Device A in Cloud B to fulfil the request (7). 
An unexpected outage occurs in Cloud A, making Cloud Service A unavailable. Organization A notices that its cloud resource administrator can continue accessing data in Cloud Storage Device A via a usage and administration portal. Cloud Service Consumer A is unable to access data in Cloud Storage Device A via Cloud Service A during the outage. The cloud resource administrator manually restarts Cloud Service A and it continues to function normally. Organization A needs to change the cloud architecture so that when Cloud Service A fails, three automated attempts are made to recover it before a manual restart is required. Due to data storage regulations, Organization A is prohibited from storing some types of data across more than one cloud storage device. A large amount of the data in Cloud Storage Device A is subject to these regulations. Because of an increase in usage, the capacity of Cloud Storage Device A has reached its limit, resulting in regular delays and lag time when processing data access requests during peak usage times. A management change by another cloud consumer organization inadvertently reconfigures settings in the failover system used in Cloud A for Cloud Storage Device A. Organization A complains to the cloud provider who promises to take the steps required to prevent management tasks performed by other cloud consumer organizations from affecting IT resources being used by Organization A. Which of the following statements describes a solution that can resolve all of these issues?
Ready-Made Environment A is hosted by Virtual Server A and Ready-Made Environments is hosted by Virtual Server B. Virtual Servers A and B are hosted by Hypervisor A, which is part of a hypervisor cluster. An automated scaling listener intercepts cloud consumer requests and automatically invokes the on-demand generation of additional instances of ready-made environments, as required. A self-service portal and a usage and administration portal are also available to cloud consumers. The self-service portal can be used to request the provisioning of a new ready-made environment. Any cloud consumer that has already had a ready-made environment provisioned can configure and view information about that ready-made environment via the usage and administration portal. Cloud Consumer A accesses Ready-Made Environment A to work on the development of a new cloud service (1). Cloud Consumer B accesses Ready-Made Environment B to test a recently completed application comprised of three cloud services (2). Cloud Consumer C accesses the self-service portal to request the creation of a new ready-made environment (3). 
The cloud provider is required to perform an emergency maintenance outage on a cloud storage device used by all ready-made environments. The unplanned outage takes two hours. During this period, Cloud Consumers A and B are unable to access Ready-Made Environments A and B and Cloud Consumer C receives an error when submitting a request to create a new ready-made environment. After the maintenance outage is over, Cloud Consumers A and B encounter the following problems: Cloud Consumer A is unable to recover session data that was kept in memory for an extended period, prior to the time of the outage. Cloud Consumer B has no access to Virtual Server B, which was moved to Hypervisor B during the maintenance outage. When Cloud Consumer B attempts to ping Virtual Server B, the request times out. Even though Cloud Consumer C is able to log into the usage and administration portal to confirm that its ready-made environment was successfully provisioned, the unexpected outage has raised concerns about the stability of the ready-made environment's underlying infrastructure. Cloud Consumer C informs the cloud provider that it cannot proceed with its lease of the ready-made environment if there are future occurrences of this type of maintenance outage. Which of the following statements can help address the problems and concerns of the three cloud consumers?
Cloud Sen/ice A is hosted by Virtual Server A, which is hosted by Hypervisor A on Physical Server A. Cloud Service B is hosted by Virtual Server B. Virtual Server C hosts Cloud Services C and D. Virtual Server B and Virtual Server C are hosted by Hypervisor B on Physical Server B. Cloud Service Consumer A accesses Cloud Service A (1). Cloud Service Consumer B accesses Cloud Service A (2). Cloud Service Consumer C accesses Cloud Service A (3) and then accesses Cloud Service B (4). 
Cloud Service Consumers A, B and C simultaneously access Cloud Service A. Cloud Service Consumer C receives a runtime exception and its request for access is rejected. It is determined that Cloud Service Consumer C attempted to upload a large amount of input data for Cloud Service A, which exceeded the bandwidth threshold of the virtual network. The cloud architecture needs to be improved to avoid this from happening again. Cloud Service Consumer C's repeated access of Cloud Service B imposes workloads that are large and highly unpredictable. After some time, Cloud Service B begins to delay its responses and sometimes times out entirely. The cloud resource administrator discovers that Virtual Server B is unstable and close to failure primarily because its CPU and memory resources are being used to their maximum capacity. Cloud Services C and D are being positioned as SaaS products for use by a range of cloud consumer organizations. After their initial release, they begin to quickly use up the available memory in Virtual Server C, primarily because of the large amounts of state and session data they need to place into memory for extended periods. Which of the following statements lists the patterns that can be applied to solve these three requirements and problems?
Physical Server A hosts Hypervisor A which hosts Virtual Server A, Virtual Server B and an active cluster comprised of three virtual servers. Virtual Server A hosts Ready-Made Environment A. Ready- Made Environment A uses Cloud Storage Device A to store data related to the ready-made environment and its users. Cloud Service A is hosted by a high-availability (HA) virtual server cluster. Hypervisor A is a cluster-enabled hypervisor. 
Developers access Ready-Made Environment A to work on the development of a new solution (1). During this usage. Ready-Made Environment A regularly reads and writes data to Cloud Storage Device A (2). Cloud Service Consumer B accesses Cloud Service A (3). Cloud Service A queries data residing in Cloud Storage Device A in response to processing requests from Cloud Service Consumer B (4). Hypervisor A is made part of a cluster of hypetvisors. Ready-Made Environment A, which is still hosted by Virtual Server Aon Hypervisor A, subsequently becomes unexpectedly unavailable. It then takes twenty minutes to pass before Virtual Server A and Ready-Made Environment A become available again on Hypervisor B (a hypervisor that is also part of the hypervisor cluster). This delay is considered unacceptable by Cloud Consumer A. Furthermore, after being relocated to Hypervisor B, Virtual Server A is unable to connect to the network. By the time the cloud provider rectifies this second problem, Cloud Consumer A experiences a total of two hours of downtime. Which of the following statements describes a solution that can minimize or entirely avoid a delay for the runtime relocation of Ready-Made Environment A?
Cloud Service A is installed on Virtual Server A and the database it accesses is located on Cloud Storage Device A. Both Virtual Servers A and B are hosted by Hypervisor A. Requests from cloud service consumers are intercepted by an automated scaling listener that automatically routes subsequent requests to additional instances of Cloud Service A whenever the given usage of an instance exceeds two concurrent requests. 
Cloud Service Consumer A accesses Cloud Service A (1), which either sends a query or a read/write request to a database on Cloud Storage Device A (2). A usage and administration portal is available, enabling Cloud Consumer A to view the billing and usage history of Virtual Servers A and B (3). Cloud Service Consumer A and Cloud Consumer A are owned by Organization A. which performs several tests on the cloud architecture that produce the following results: A stress test is performed to generate workloads on Virtual Servers A and B to gauge their load capacity. This test reveals that both virtual servers have firm workload thresholds. If the workload capacity on either virtual server reaches its threshold, further processing requests are rejected. An availability test shows that Cloud Service A becomes unavailable whenever Hypervisor A crashes. A security test is carried out during which the cloud architecture is accessed by a malicious cloud consumer that disables the path used by Cloud Service A to access Cloud Storage Device A, thereby causing all subsequent cloud service consumer requests to be replied to with data access errors. Which of the following statements describes a solution that addresses the concerns raised by the three tests?
Virtual Server A and Virtual Server B are hosted by Hypervisor A, which resides on Physical Server A. Virtual Server A hosts Cloud Service A. Virtual Server C. Virtual Server D, Virtual Server E and Virtual Server F are hosted by Hypervisor B on Physical Server B. Physical Server C, which hosts Hypervisor C, is currently not being used. Cloud Service Consumer A accesses Cloud Service A (1), which accesses files stored in a folder on Virtual Server A (2). Cloud Consumer B uses Proprietary User Portal A to administer legacy software (not shown) installed on Virtual Server D (3). Proprietary User Portal B and Proprietary User Portal C are also available for accessing additional legacy systems located on Virtual Server F; however, they are not often used. 
The cloud shown in the figure is a private cloud. Department A and Department B share IT resources within the private cloud and are part of the same organization. Cloud Service Consumer A belongs to Department A and Cloud Consumer B belongs to Department B. During routine access of Cloud Service A by Cloud Service Consumer A, the Department A cloud resource administrator is notified that a hardware fault is occurring within Physical Server A that will soon cause it to fail. The cloud resource administrator scrambles to arrange for Cloud Service A to be relocated but is unable to do so before Physical Server A does fail. It takes several more hours of downtime until, with the cooperation of the cloud provider, the Cloud Service A implementation is successfully moved to Physical Server C and made live again. Managers at Department A demand that a system be put in place to avoid this scenario in the future. Cloud Service A was initially developed specifically for Department A's Cloud Service Consumer A. However, recently Department B has indicated that it will be developing its own cloud service consumer that will also need to regularly access Cloud Service A. After this new cloud service consumer is deployed, both Department A and Department B experience occasional runtime errors when their cloud service consumers attempt to access Cloud Service A at the same time. Cloud Service A accesses a legacy system on Virtual Server A that requires regular updates and patches to stay current. Each time the legacy system is updated, Cloud Service A needs to undergo an update as well, during which it needs to be temporarily unavailable. Department A managers ask the cloud provider to extend the cloud architecture so that a duplicate, secondary implementation of Cloud Service A can be made available while the primary implementation undergoes a maintenance update. Which of the following statements provide a solution that can adequately resolve all of Departments A and B's issues?
Virtual Server A is hosted by Hypervisor A, which resides on Physical Server A. Virtual Server A hosts Cloud Services A and B. Virtual Server B is hosted by Hypervisor B on Physical Server B. Physical Server C is currently not being used. Cloud Service Consumer A sends a request to Cloud Service A that is intercepted by Pay-Per-Use Monitor A (1), which collects billing-related usage data that is later forwarded to the billing management system (2). Cloud Service A receives and processes the request (3). Cloud Consumer B accesses the usage and administration portal (4) to access data on Cloud Storage Device B. Pay-Per-Use Monitor B intercepts the data access to collect and forward billing-related usage data to the billing management system (5). Cloud Storage Device B processes the data access request from Cloud Consumer B (6). 
Cloud Service Consumer A and Cloud Consumer B belong to Organization A Cloud Storage Device B is accessed on a regular basis by Cloud Consumer B. However, managers at Organization A receive reports from their cloud resource administrator that Cloud Storage Device B is unavailable for longer periods and more frequently than what they expected, based on the SLA availability guarantee they were provided by the cloud provider. This results in wasted time when the cloud resource administrator attempts to upload or access data and then discovers that Cloud Storage Device B is unavailable. The cloud resource administrator requires a means of checking for the availability of Cloud Storage Device B prior to attempting access. As the workload increases on Physical Server B, Cloud Consumer B begins to receive runtime exceptions and degraded data access performance from Cloud Storage Device B. It is determined that the cause of the deteriorating performance is a network bottleneck that has formed on Physical Server B due to its bandwidth capacity being reached, primarily because of other cloud consumer organizations also sharing its hosted IT resources. Organization A receives a monthly billing statement that shows the charges for the total usage of Cloud Service A during that period. However, Organization A requires a more detailed breakdown of the types of usage and their associated costs. For example, Cloud Service Consumer A can issue requests for information by employees within Organization A and on behalf of clients of Organization A. Organization A requires a breakdown of the usage costs incurred on behalf of clients so that it can bill the clients for this usage accordingly. The cloud provider informs Organization A that it has no existing monitor that can collect and log this detailed usage information and suggests that Organization A customize its own monitor. Which of the following statements lists the patterns that can be applied to solve these three problems?
Cloud Service A is hosted by Virtual Server A, which is hosted by Hypervisor A that resides on Physical Server A. Cloud Storage Device A is used to store media library data that is continuously replicated with a redundant, secondary implementation of Cloud Storage A (not shown). Access to Cloud Service A is monitored by Pay-Per-Use Monitor A. Access to Cloud Storage Device A is monitored by Pay-Per-Use Monitor B. Pay-Per-Use Monitors A and B capture billing-related usage data that is forwarded to a billing management system that is hosted by Physical Server B. Cloud Service Consumer A accesses Cloud Service A and the usage data is captured by Pay-Per-Use Monitor A (1). Cloud Consumer B accesses Cloud Storage Device A via a usage and administration portal that it uses to upload media data (2). This usage is captured by Pay-Per-Use Monitor B (3). Pay- Per-Use Monitors A and B store collected usage data in the billing management system (4), which is later used by the cloud provider to bill for the usage of Cloud Service A and Cloud Storage Device A. 
Each service instance of Cloud Service A requires a virtual server with 2 virtual CPUs and 4 GBs of RAM at a package price of $2.00 for each initial invocation and an additional $0.50 for each consecutive 60 seconds of usage. Cloud Service Consumer A accesses Cloud Service A twice in one day. The two exchanges with Cloud Service A last 60 seconds and 120 seconds. For that one day, the organization that owns Cloud Service Consumer A is billed $6.50, which it determines is incorrect. After complaining to the cloud provider, it is discovered that the rapid provisioning system responsible for provisioning instances of Cloud Service A is not de-provisioning Cloud Service A when Cloud Service Consumer A indicates it has completed an exchange. Instead, Cloud Service A is de- provisioned after a 60 second timeout that occurs after Cloud Service Consumer A is completed with an exchange. Storage space on Cloud Storage Device A can only be purchased in units of terabytes (TBs), with each TB costing $1 per day. Cloud Consumer B purchases 5 TBs of storage space on day 1 and stores 5 TBs of data on days 6 and 7. Cloud Consumer B was expecting to be billed $10.00, but is billed $35. After raising a complaint, Cloud Consumer B is informed by the cloud provider that cloud consumers are billed based on the allocation of storage space, regardless of how much storage space they actually use. Which of the following statements describes a solution that can update the cloud architecture to avoid these billing-related problems and discrepancies?