C5050-287.ibm Number: C5050-287 Passing Score: 800 Time Limit: 120 min File Version: 1.0 IBM C5050-287 Foundations of IBM Cloud Reference Architecture V5 Version 1.0
Exam A QUESTION 1 Which IT methodology does IBM incorporate into its service management approach to cloud? A. ITIL B. Open Unified Process C. Six Sigma D. CMMI /Reference: http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/definition/itil QUESTION 2 Which three IBM Spectrum Storage family offerings provide Software Defined Storage (SDS) data plane capability? A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate B. IBM Spectrum Protect C. IBM Spectrum Control D. IBM Spectrum Scale E. IBM Spectrum Virtualize F. IBM Spectrum Optimize /Reference: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/stzswd_11.5.1/po/xiv_sds_po_overview.html
QUESTION 3 Which architectural artifact captures information related to reliability, performance, scalability and security? A. functional requirements B. use cases C. non-functional requirements D. system context diagram Correct Answer: C /Reference: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4706.html http://www.scaledagileframework.com/nonfunctional-requirements/ QUESTION 4 Which statement is true about mobile business applications? A. Mobile business application provide operational analytics. B. Mobile business application provide foundational capabilities. C. Mobile business application provide additional mobile functionality not provided by Mobile Backend. D. Mobile business application provide service management. Correct Answer: D /Reference: http://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst/us/en/mobilefirst-for-ios/ QUESTION 5 Which initiative demonstrates that the organization need to participate in an API economy?
A. driving cold-chain logistics B. instituting a big data analytics program C. establishing a continuous delivery pipeline D. building an ecosystem of partners and vendors Correct Answer: B /Reference: http://www.ibm.com/middleware/us-en/knowledge/hybrid-integration/api-economy.html QUESTION 6 Why is standardization important to cloud computing? A. drives commoditization and increases quality B. ensure developer proficiency during build cycles C. consolidates and differentiates IT services D. serve as a provisioning interface to automate services /Reference: https://fedcsis.org/proceedings/2012/pliks/219.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/commoditization QUESTION 7 Based upon the diagram, which capability or capabilities should be provided by the Connection layer to allow developers to take advantage of the functionality offered by App A and APP B?
A. secure connectivity to database DB1 and DB2 B. API Discovery and Assembly C. Monitoring and debug of Node.js apps D. network connectivity to enterprise IT /Reference: QUESTION 8
Which technology best supports application portability? A. docker containers B. OpenFlow C. docker stacks D. OpenDaylight /Reference: https://www.docker.com/what-docker QUESTION 9 What challenge of hybrid cloud environments is addressed by IBM solutions like IBM Cast Iron, IBM MobileFirst platform integration and IBM API Management? A. lack of workload portability B. integration of systems of engagement and systems of record C. service management of provisioned systems D. mobile applications security in hybrid cloud environments Correct Answer: B /Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/technotes/tips1076.pdf QUESTION 10 What is the principal reason that continuous testing is necessary in the agile world? A. So that multiply teams can get better utilization out of testing environments.
B. To bridge the gap between slow and fast speed IT development. C. It supports the large volume and high frequency of changes driven by cloud native development approaches. D. To ensure application interoperability across public cloud providers. Correct Answer: B /Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/continuous_testing QUESTION 11 What are three essential cloud characteristics? A. broad network access B. on-demand self service C. economies of scale D. measured service E. vendor lock-in prevention F. workload virtualization BD /Reference: http://www.inforisktoday.com/5-essential-characteristics-cloud-computing-a-4189 QUESTION 12 Which IBM capability is used to control and manage traffic and SLAs in a hybrid cloud environment? A. IBM DataPower Gateway B. IBM Castlron C. IBM StrongLoop D. IBM API Management
/Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/datapower-gateway QUESTION 13 Which option represents the minimal set of groups needed for an OpenStack environment? A. Public, Private, Management, Data B. Public, Private, Management, Services C. Public, Guest, Management, Services D. Public, Guest, Management, Data /Reference: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/fuel-docs/userdocs/fuel-user-guide/configure-environment/network-settings.html QUESTION 14 What must a hardware platform typically support for a cloud infrastructure? A. VMware ESX B. high availability C. disk mirroring D. virtualization Correct Answer: D /Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ibm_cloud_computing QUESTION 15 What is the delivery model for IBM Gravitant?
A. Platform as a Service offering B. Business Process as a Service offering C. Infrastructure as a Service offering D. Software as a Service offering Correct Answer: D /Reference: http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/software-as-a-service/ibm-buys-cloud-brokerage-specialist-gravitant/d/d-id/1322985 QUESTION 16 What is a benefit of IBM Operational Decision Manager? A. It provides rules tightly coupled with applications for optimal execution. B. It enforces rules to be written as software code that are stored locally in each application. C. It provides capabilities for manual execution of business rules. D. It allows externalization of business rules from application processes. Correct Answer: D /Reference: http://soapower.com/ibmbpm/whitepapers/ibm-odm-whitepaper-why-decision-mgmt-matters-for-businessandit.pdf QUESTION 17 Which capability describes the IBM Cloud principle, industrialized hybrid cloud? A. The ability to create high availability environment using one public cloud and one private cloud. B. The ability to securely integrate data and resources from different cloud environments.
C. The ability to run the right workload using the appropriate delivery model. D. The ability to run workloads on cloud computing hardware with redundant power and networking Correct Answer: B /Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=wh&infotype=sa&htmlfid=wuw12386usen&attachment=wuw12386usen.pdf&ct=ism0056 QUESTION 18 In a Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution advanced functions like thin-provisioning, compression and tiering are provided by which SDS function? A. data plane virtualization B. storage virtualization C. massive scale-out D. array optimization Correct Answer: B /Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/storage_virtualization QUESTION 19 What are microservices? A. APIs that exploit Docker containers and are deployed as Platform as a Service. B. APIs designed with intimate details of the underlying infrastructure. C. Discrete building blocks for cloud native applications that abstract the service implementation. D. SOA-type services wrapped around legacy systems. Correct Answer: C /Reference: http://ryanjbaxter.com/2015/07/15/using-microservices-to-build-cloud-native-applications-part-1/
QUESTION 20 A client has workloads running in IBM Cloud Manager Services and identified additional workloads that are suited to run on IBM Softlayer. Which connectivity option should a cloud advisor recommend to connect the two workloads? A. AT&T NetBond B. Direct Connect, using the clients preferred carrier to provide a dedicated private connection. C. IBM Softlayer Interconnect (SLI) service D. Secure access through an IPsec based Virtual Private Network (VPN) over the Internet Correct Answer: C /Reference: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/it-services/cloud-services/cloud-managed-networking-services/ QUESTION 21 What does the customer pay for in a subscription-based pricing model? A. The market price for the service, which varies over time based on supply and demand. B. They pay the same amount regardless of the resources they used. C. The usage that is correlated back to cloud consumers. D. The amount of services actually used such as service functions. Correct Answer: B /Reference: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2013/06/present-future-cloud-pricing-models/ QUESTION 22 What are two barriers to adopting cloud computing? (Select 2)
A. business agility B. Capital cost C. government compliance D. data privacy E. business model Correct Answer: CD /Reference: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/cio/reader/build/media/cloud/overcoming_obstacles_to_cloud_computing.pdf QUESTION 23 Which two recommendations should a Cloud Advisor make to a client looking to implement high-availability application in a cloud? (Select 2) A. Disable all logging to ensure high throughput for each component. B. Store state locally in each application component. C. Have graceful failure modes. D. Build redundancy at each layer and avoid single of failure. E. Optimize applications on SOA-based architecture. Correct Answer: DE /Reference: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-high-availability-and-disaster-recovery-in-bluemix-trs/index.html QUESTION 24 Which two actors are associated with the cloud service provider role? A. cloud service developer B. business manager C. consumer end user D. security and risk manager E. service component developer
Correct Answer: BD /Reference: http://www.answers.com/article/1287887/who-are-the-cloud-computing-actors QUESTION 25 Which two services are examples of Infrastructure-as-a-Service? (Select 2) A. IBM SoftLayer B. IBM Verse C. Amazon EC@ D. ServiceNow E. Force.com D /Reference: http://www.us.logicalis.com/partners/servicenow/ QUESTION 26 What are two popular open source automation tools? A. Automatix B. Puppet C. Orchestrator D. Chef E. Kermit Correct Answer: BD
/Reference: https://xebialabs.com/the-ultimate-devops-tool-chest/open-source/ QUESTION 27 What is reduced by process standardization? A. software cost B. manual interactions C. number of image templates D. image cloning time /Reference: https://fedcsis.org/proceedings/2012/pliks/219.pdf QUESTION 28 Which functionality does the Neutron component of OpenStack provide? A. provision a Hadoop cluster B. Database as a Service C. web-based interface to OpenStack components D. Network Connectivity as a Service Correct Answer: D /Reference:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/neutron QUESTION 29 Which statement is more applicable to Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings or a SaaS environment than traditional licensed software? A. SaaS offerings are not secure. B. Implementation of the software needs a lot of customization. C. Implementation of the software is standard and highly automated ready to use. D. The offering is typically targeted for enterprise usage only. Correct Answer: C /Reference: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2014/03/what-is-software-as-a-service-saas/ QUESTION 30 Which statement describes two speed IT? A. it describes a way for IT to manage multiple environments for production and disaster recovery at the same speed. B. It describes a way for IT to accelerate speeds of development cycles and tests cycles for faster product delivery. C. It describes a way for IT to accelerate speeds of development cycles and test cycles for faster product delivery. D. It describes a way for business to support engagement applications that take advantage of new business opportunities and simultaneously deliver enterprisestrength IT services. Correct Answer: D /Reference: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/gcuomo/entry/two_speed_integration_by_ibm?lang=en