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EMC E20-918 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | EMC (Dell EMC) |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | IT-as-a-Service Expert Exam for Cloud Architects |
| Exam Number: | E20-918 |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Passing Score: | 60% |
| Related Certifications: | EMC Cloud Architect (EMCCA) |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Exam Format: | Multiple Choice, Scenario-Based |
| Exam Price: | $200 USD |
| Real Exam Qty: | 60–98 |
| Exam Duration: | 90 minutes |
| Recommended Training: | Dell EMC Official Training |
| Exam Registration: | Pearson VUE Registration |
| Sample Questions: | EMC E20-918 Sample Questions |
| Exam Way: | Onsite at Pearson VUE test centers / Online proctored |
| Pre Condition: | No mandatory prerequisites; recommended: 3+ years of cloud architecture experience and knowledge of EMC cloud solutions |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/certification/exams/e20-918.htm |
EMC E20-918 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: ITaaS Planning and Design | 25% | - Financial modeling and chargeback - Service catalog definition - Service level management - Architecture and infrastructure design |
| Topic 2: Service Design and Management | 15% | - Service lifecycle management - Monitoring, reporting and optimization - Automation and orchestration |
| Topic 3: Trust, Security and Compliance | 20% | - Data protection and privacy - Identity and access management - Risk management and security controls |
| Topic 4: Organizational and Governance Planning | 20% | - Policy and compliance framework - Roles and responsibilities - ITaaS governance model |
| Topic 5: Discovery, Assessment and Evaluation | 20% | - Gap analysis and requirements gathering - Current state analysis - Business and IT alignment |
EMC IT-as-a-Service Expert Exam for Cloud Architects Sample Questions:
Refer to Scenario 1 below.
An IT department is offering 50 Service Offerings in their service catalog to meet all the application developers' needs. Many of the variants have a very small number of associated instantiations. A "big data" platform is offered and being actively utilized by a team of data scientists.
All services are sourced from within the private cloud. The developers are able to customize the platform's compute, storage, protection and network configuration upon instantiation. They can also provision additional resources after the initial instantiation through an upgrade service within the catalog. Because of the culture of the organization, no chargeback mechanism is implemented.
What can the IT department do to resolve problems (b) and (d)?
- A. Standardize on a subset of offerings to meet the needs of most developers and minimize the number of customization options
- B. Decrease the number of IaaS offering variations and customization options
- C. Provide separate resource pools for the application developers and the data scientists and manage the pools separately
- D. Meter usage patterns and implement a showback mechanism to influence consumer behavior when choosing specific resources
The sales organization within a large enterprise has determined the need to immediately implement a mobile sales tool for its field staff. There are two SaaS solutions available that meet their requirements.
The CIO wants to develop the solution in-house and claims that IT can develop the application at only slightly more cost than the SaaS solutions, and it would be more secure. Estimated time to deliver the application from internal IT is 10 weeks.
Who should make the decision to determine the best solution?
- A. Architecture Committee
- B. Board of Directors
- C. IT Strategy Committee
- D. IT governance bodies
A public cloud service provider has stated they intend to improve their IT capabilities in the following areas:
1 - Monitor storage usage patterns and identify bottlenecks
2 - More comprehensive element management
3 - Holistic visibility across their storage services
4 - VMware provisioning
5 - Identifying opportunities to move data to more cost effective storage
Which three areas is ProSphere best suited to address?
- A. 3, 4, and 5
- B. 1, 2, and 3
- C. 1, 3, and 5
- D. 2, 3, and 4
A regional accounting and analytics firm headquartered in Seattle, WA has built a profitable business selling a portfolio of financial services to several large local enterprises. The company's flagship applications process large volumes of enterprise-internal financial data within IT operations.
Recently, the firm has established small remote offices in Hong Kong, Seoul, and Beijing to grow in the Far East.
The business is critically dependent on its data processing capabilities, and recognizes the need for ITaaS transformation. They are seeking guidance on a suitable IT governance model.
What type of model should you recommend, and why?
- A. Hybrid by location and application, to eliminate silos and promote growth
- B. Federated by application, to ensure creation of customized services for each application
- C. Distributed by geography, to address different regional regulations
- D. Centralized at headquarters, to maximize security and minimize compliance risk
Refer to Scenario 3.
A US company has deployed web services within a private cloud. They wish to provide additional web services elastically and distribute them around the globe using a public cloud provider.
The web services have a dependency on a database resource in the private cloud. The web services are deployed through a service catalog as a standardized service offering, which includes an intrusion prevention system that periodically polls a central management server for security updates. The IPS management server is located within the private cloud.
The web services collect highly regulated personal health information about consumers who are
located around the world.
Which solution would you recommend to best support the web service high availability and minimize service network latency for the consumer?
- A. Implement a global load balancing service as a front-end for the web services.
- B. Use a content delivery network to distribute static web content.
- C. Implement a Layer 7 firewall within the public cloud to filter out unnecessary traffic.
- D. Implement a QoS policy that provides a higher priority to http traffic.
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