SOA Certified Professional Cloud Technology Lab Sample Questions:

1. A cloud consumer is interested in leasing cloud-based virtual servers. It compares the virtual servers offered by Cloud Provider X and Cloud Provider Y.
Cloud X (owned by Cloud Provider X) and Cloud Y (owned by Cloud Provider Y) both provide shared physical servers that host multiple virtual servers for other cloud consumers.
The virtual servers on Cloud X are accessed directly, whereas the virtual servers on Cloud Y are accessed via an automated scaling listener. On Cloud X, virtual servers are pre-configured to support a specific amount of concurrent cloud service consumers. When this threshold is exceeded, cloud service consumer requests are rejected. Due to the use of the automated scaling
listener, virtual servers on Cloud Y can provide a greater level of elasticity.

The hourly cost to the cloud consumer to use a virtual server on Cloud X is half that of the cost to use a virtual server on Cloud Y.
Within a one month period, Cloud Provider X bases its hourly charge on the maximum number of virtual servers used. Within a one month period, Cloud Provider Y bases its hourly charges on actual virtual server usage. Cloud Provider Y charges $20 for each hour that a cloud consumer uses a virtual server.
The cloud consumer predicts its monthly usage requirements to be as follows: The cloud consumer is required to choose the cloud provider with the lowest on-going cost, based on its predicted usage. Which of the following statements accurately calculates the on-going usage costs of Cloud Providers X and Y and correctly states the cloud provider that the cloud consumer must choose?

A) The total usage duration is (20 + 30 + 50) hours = 100 hours.
The actual usage is (20 + 30 + 50) X 5 server hours = 500 server hours.
The cost of using virtual servers from Cloud Provider X is (500 X 5 X$10) = $25,000.
The cost of using virtual servers from Cloud Provider Y is (500 X $20) = $10,600.
The cloud consumer must therefore choose Cloud Provider Y.
B) The total usage duration is (3 x 20) + (4 x 30) + (5 x 50) hours = 430 hours.
The actual usage is (20 + 30 + 50) hours = 100 hours.
The cost of using virtual servers from Cloud Provider X is (430 X $10) = $4,300.
The cost of using virtual servers from Cloud Provider Y is (100 X $20) = $2,000.
The cloud consumer must therefore choose Cloud Provider Y.
C) The total usage duration is (20 + 30 + 50) hours = 100 hours.
The actual usage is (20X3)+ (30X4) + (50X5) hours =430 hours.
The cost of using virtual servers from Cloud Provider Xis100X5X$10 = $5,000.
The cost of using virtual servers from Cloud Provider Y is 430 X $20 = $8,600.
The cloud consumer must therefore choose Cloud Provider X.
D) The total usage duration is (20 + 30 + 50) x 12 hours = 1,200 hours.
The actual usage is (20 X 3) + (30 X4) + (50 X 5) server hours = 430 server hours.
The cost of using virtual servers from Cloud ProviderXis12X5X$10 = $600.
The cost of using virtual servers from Cloud Provider Y is 430 X $20 = $8,600.
The cloud consumer must therefore choose Cloud Provider X.

2. A company is planning to build and launch a new SaaS product that will be available for use by the general public. It intends to build the service on-premise and then deploy it in a public cloud. The company has the following set of four requirements for the implementation of the new service:
1.The cloud service needs to exchange messages primarily by using HTTP methods and other features provided by HTTP.
2.The cloud service needs to store highly structured data with potentially complex relationships.
3.The cloud service needs to be deployed on a dedicated virtual server that can be administered with a high level of control by the cloud consumer's own cloud resource administrator.
4.The cloud service needs to be deployed with a minimal amount of integration testing.
For this project, the company has a very limited budget. The company is assessing the IT resources that are offered by Clouds X and Y within the constraints of its limited budget.
Cloud X can offer an IaaS environment with very few proprietary characteristics that includes a database that supports only no relational storage, as well as support for the deployment and usage of REST services.

Cloud Y can offer a PaaS environment with a pre-configured virtual server that includes native
support for WSDL and SOAP, as well as a database that supports only relational storage. The implementation of a new service within Cloud Y will require compliance to a high level of proprietary characteristics.
As previously listed, the company has identified four specific implementation requirements for its new cloud service. Which of the following statements correctly identifies how many of the four requirements Clouds X and Y can directly fulfill?

A) Cloud X fulfills 3 out of4requirements. Cloud Y fulfills 1 out of 4 requirements.
B) Cloud X fulfills 1 out of4requirements. Cloud Y fulfills 3 out of4requirements.
C) Cloud X fulfills 0 out of 4 requirements. Cloud Y fulfills 4 out of 4 requirements.
D) Cloud X fulfills 2 out of4requirements. Cloud Y fulfills 2 out of4requirements.

3. Organization A has been expanding and, as a result, is outgrowing the processing capacity of its on-premise Service A implementation. It is determined that this is due to usage thresholds of Service A and complex data processing limitations in Database A. The diagram depicts Organization A's current on-premise environment, where Service Consumers A. B and C attempt to access Service A at the same time. Service Consumer A successfully accesses Service A, which then successfully retrieves the requested data (1). Service Consumer B successfully accesses Service A, but due to the complex data structure, the request for the data times out and fails (2). Finally, Service Consumer C attempts to access Service A, but is rejected because Service A is unable to accept more concurrent requests.

Organization A is required to continue using its on-premise Service A implementation, with the exception of Database A, which does not need to remain on-premise. Database A is dedicated to Service A and is comprised of relational data.
Which of the following statements provides a solution that uses cloud-based IT resources to solve the performance limitations of Service A and Database A?

A) Automated scaling listener mechanisms can be implemented in both the on-premise and cloud environments. Using built-in resiliency features, these service agents can be configured to coordinate the routing of messages between the on-premise Service A implementation and a redundant Cloud Service A implementation. This dynamic functionality can avoid service usage thresholds in both Service A and Cloud Service A.
B) The virtual server and resource replication mechanisms can be implemented to replicate Service A and Database A across both on-premise and cloud environments. This enables on-demand usage in that requests sent by Service Consumers A, B and C will automatically be redirected to the replicated service and/or database. As a result, Service A' s usage thresholds will no longer result in rejected requests and Database A' s processing limitations will no longer result in failed data access attempts.
C) None of the above.
D) A cloud balancing solution can be implemented within the public cloud, whereby a redundant Cloud Service A implementation is established. Cloud Service A becomes the first point of contact for Service Consumers A, B and C (thereby turning them into Cloud Service ConsumersA. B and C). Upon reaching its usage threshold (which will be higher than the on-premise Service A), Cloud Service A automatically routes usage requests to Service A. The resource replication mechanism is implemented within the cloud to establish a replicated Database A that can further be used to load balance data access requests from Cloud Service A or Service A.

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