A financial services firm is architecting a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) private cloud for a new low-latency algorithmic trading platform. The platform's performance is highly sensitive to network jitter and east-west traffic latency between compute nodes. Which network architecture should the cloud architect select to provide the most predictable, non-blocking performance for this workload?
A healthcare provider is planning a hybrid cloud solution. They must store and process electronic health records (EHR) containing Protected Health Information (PHI) on-premises to comply with HIPAA regulations. However, they want to leverage a public cloud for anonymized data analytics and machine learning model training. Which TWO design considerations are most critical for this architecture? (Select TWO)
A manufacturing company is modernizing its assembly line monitoring application, which requires near real-time data processing. The current 3-tier infrastructure suffers from high management overhead and inconsistent performance. The company wants a solution that simplifies operations, provides predictable scalability, and can be deployed in a compact footprint on the factory floor. They have a strong VMware operational skillset. Which infrastructure solution is the most appropriate design choice?
During the data collection phase for a cloud migration project, a consultant uses a tool that analyzes network packet data to map application dependencies and communication flows. The resulting report visualizes which servers are communicating with each other over which ports and protocols. Which type of analysis is being performed?
True or False: In the cloud solutions design project lifecycle, the 'Future State Design' phase should be completed before the 'Data Collection and Analysis' phase begins.
A university is implementing a self-service portal for its research departments. The goal is to allow researchers to provision pre-defined, complex computing environments (e.g., a Hadoop cluster or a GPU-accelerated machine learning stack) with a single click, without needing to understand the underlying infrastructure. Which Cloud Management Platform (CMP) function is most essential to enable this capability?
A software development team is building a new cloud-native application using a microservices architecture. They are considering a packaged Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution like VMware Tanzu or Red Hat OpenShift over building a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) platform on vanilla Kubernetes. What is the primary business advantage of choosing a packaged PaaS in this scenario?
A retail company is designing a storage solution for its e-commerce platform's product image catalog. The catalog contains millions of small image files that are read frequently by web servers. The solution must provide high read IOPS and low latency. The company wants to use a file-based protocol for simplicity of integration with their existing web servers. Which storage technology is the best fit?
A consultant is designing a Dell VxRail cluster to host a critical Oracle database. The primary design goal is to achieve the lowest possible storage latency for database transactions. Which node configuration factor is most important to meet this goal?
A global e-commerce company stores its main product catalog database in a primary data center in North America. They are designing a hybrid cloud architecture to deploy web front-ends in public cloud regions in Europe and Asia to serve local customers with low latency. What is the most significant architectural challenge the design must address?