EMC Dell Cloud Services Design 2023 - D-CS-DS-23 Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
An IT organization is in the process of transitioning to an ITaaS model and adopting cloud services.
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is very concerned about the cultural shift in mindset that will be required in order to achieve success.
What might this concern be?

QUESTION NO: 2
You are designing a cloud services architecture for a company.
You have determined that running some of the customer facing applications the company uses in a public cloud would save a significant amount of money but the security department wants to retain control of customer data at rest.
The application infrastructure consists of two database servers and eight web servers.
How can you architect the application to minimize the risk involved with data exposure?

QUESTION NO: 3
An organization wants to provide IaaS capabilities in a hybrid cloud.
They have the following requirements:
- Each line of business must have access to its own services
- Templates will be shared
- Service templates should be as generic as possible
- Data encryption should be provided for only services that require it
- Each instance should use Microsoft Active Directory for authentication
- Each instance should have the latest OS patches applied
How can these requirements be addressed in a cloud design?

QUESTION NO: 4
A company has an incident process in place for the cloud services that they support.
What is the correct order of steps for an incident process?

QUESTION NO: 5
An organization is categorizing their existing services against service characteristics to determine how ready each one might be for the catalog. Part of this effort involves looking at the following three attributes for each service characteristic: considerations, benefits, and tradeoffs.
What attributes correspond to the following characteristics: Reusable and Composable?

QUESTION NO: 6
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?

QUESTION NO: 7
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?

QUESTION NO: 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?

QUESTION NO: 9
A template has been created that defines an IaaS capability. It will be combined with policies, constraints, and rules and added to the service catalog. The template defines a base configuration for a virtual machine but options can be made available to modify some of the configuration options.
What will be used to instantiate the IaaS instances and modify the configuration as required?

QUESTION NO: 10
As a company moves towards a DevOps model, they have asked you to help their developers achieve the following objectives:
- Repeatedly produce production ready code within short intervals
- Ensure more effective collaboration between developers and delivery personnel
- Align releases tighter to business needs
In order to speed up the cycle of service creation, what would you focus your attention on?

QUESTION NO: 11
A company wishes to transform to using cloud services. They have a good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but have not established the needed education, teamwork, and discipline to take them through the full ITaaS implementation.
As their cloud architect consultant, you need to take them to the next level in the service orientation maturity model.
What is the next level?

QUESTION NO: 12
An organization is deploying services in an existing private cloud. The lines of business have concerns about service performance in planned services.
How should IT address these performance concerns?

QUESTION NO: 13
An IT department wants to reduce waste by shutting down and archiving auto-scaling groups (ASGs) and VMs that have been inactive for more than two weeks. Archived ASGs and VMs will consume tenant quota for the responsible parties.
The IT department wants email notifications to be sent to the tenant and the line of business controller automatically when this happens.
How might you define the configuration for such a solution?

QUESTION NO: 14
A company has asked for your assistance in mapping the act of service termination into their service design process. They have created a list of the key components in the termination process.
What factor is outside of this process?