Cloud Services Expert Exam for Cloud Architects exam (E20-920) - EMC Actual Exam Questions
Last updated on April 25, 2026
An IT organization has hired you as a cloud architect to assist them in planning for cloud services. Your first goal is to help the IT organization categorize existing services against service characteristics. You have provided a table that shows common service characteristics and their attributes for considerations, benefits, and trade-offs. The following attributes from the table have been identified: -Consideration standardized service contracts and metadata definitions -Benefit: development and implementation cost reduction -Tradeoff: very finite capability What characteristics correspond to the identified attributes?
Loosely Coupled, Composable, and Autonomy
Discoverable, Reusable, and Autonomy
Idempotent, Composable, and Discoverable
Idempotent, Loosely Coupled, and Reusable
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A cloud architect is helping a company with a new service design process. The architect notices that the company has a siloed, domain-centric IT organizational structure and is concerned about customer satisfaction. What impact would this type of structure have on customer satisfaction?
Reduction in the supported number of tenants
Delays with service authentication
Decrease in service performance
Delays in problem resolution
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An IT organization adopted the ITaaS model to offer services to their business units. They want to assess their readiness for creating and operating cloud services. What would be an appropriate assessment for them to perform related to governance?
Assess the readiness of the current service catalog
Determine the cost information needed for charging any service
Assess the skills of the IT staff to determine training needs
Assess the compliance needs and requirements for any service
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You have been hired by a large, global manufacturing company to help them plan for cloud services. During discussions with the local employees, you document which applications are most important to the business. You also gather and document key performance metrics. You find: -Some applications are rarely used -Mission critical applications require 99.99% uptime to meet the SLAs -Corporate email is proprietary and confidential information -Certain applications must comply with country specific regulations What should you use to determine proper application placement?
Application level gap analysis
Cloud security alliance controls matrix
Cloud services assessment
Workload analysis for right-sourcing
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An organization is using a public cloud provider for IaaS instances. The organization has developed and deployed a web application within these instances. The organization wishes to formalize an SLA that specifies that the public cloud provider will : Respond to infrastructure outages within 4 hours Offer multiple availability zones Ensure application up-time of 99.9% Provide monthly billing reports Why would the public cloud provider disagree with these terms?
IaaS instances are virtual and therefore do not require a monthly bill.
Availability zones must span multiple cloud providers.
Application up-time is not the responsibility of other cloud provider.
Infrastructure outages are not the responsibility of the cloud provider.
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