Cloud Infrastructure and Services Foundations Practice Test

Skills this practice test covers

• Describe the five essential characteristics of cloud computing, from on-demand self-service to measured service.
• Compare IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, and the public, private, hybrid and community deployment models.
• Choose an application modernization approach, such as rehost, replatform or refactor.
• Explain how a cloud service portal, automation and orchestration deliver a cloud service.
• Match security threats such as account hijacking and insecure APIs with control mechanisms.
• Plan business continuity with an RPO, an RTO, fault tolerance, backup and replication.

4 domains · 27 topics · 174 questions

Requirements

• No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
• Recommended: a working understanding of cloud computing concepts, IT infrastructure and virtualization basics.
• Recommended: practical experience with any cloud platform.

About the D-CIS-FN-01 exam

How to earn the certification

Earns

Dell Cloud Infrastructure and Services Foundations v2Foundations

The certification does not expire.

How to prepare for D-CIS-FN-01

1. 1

   Pair each characteristic with an example

   Write one real example for on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured service. Then do the same for each service model and deployment model.

2. 2

   Sort applications by modernization approach

   Take three applications, such as a payroll system, a web shop and an old reporting tool. Decide whether each should be rehosted, replatformed, refactored, rebuilt, replaced or retained, and note why.

3. 3

   Give security and continuity the most time

   Cloud Security and Business Continuity is the largest domain. Pair each threat with a control, and set an RPO and an RTO for one service before choosing backup or replication.

4. 4

   Sketch the reference architecture

   Draw the cloud reference architecture layer by layer, from physical infrastructure up to the services that consumers order. Then mark where the portal, orchestration and the service catalog fit.

5. 5

   Check readiness in Timed Mode

   Take the D-CIS-FN-01 practice test in Timed Mode after the training courses. Ask Brainy AI Assistant about any missed question on replication, fault tolerance or GRC, then retry that domain.

   Start a timed D-CIS-FN-01run

Dell's exam description recommends two on-demand courses: Cloud Infrastructure and Services v4, and Information Storage and Management v5.

Who D-CIS-FN-01 is for

• IT administrators who are taking on cloud infrastructure work for the first time.
• Students and career changers who want a foundation in cloud concepts from a major vendor.
• Storage and server administrators whose services are moving to a cloud model.

Typical job titles: Cloud support specialist · Junior cloud engineer · Systems administrator · IT infrastructure technician

D-CIS-FN-01 glossary

20 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.

Asynchronous replication

Copying data to a remote site after each write is confirmed locally, so the copy can lag a little behind.

Broad network access

A cloud characteristic: services are available over the network and work from many kinds of devices.

Business impact analysis (BIA)

A study of how an outage would hurt each business process, used to set recovery priorities.

Chargeback

Billing each business unit for the cloud services it actually uses.

Community cloud

A cloud shared by several organizations with common needs, such as the same compliance rules.

Continuous data protection (CDP)

A protection method that records every change, so data can be restored to any point in time.

DR as a Service (DRaaS)

Disaster recovery run by a provider, which restores systems in the provider's cloud after a failure.

GRC

Governance, risk and compliance: the policies, risk assessments and audits that keep cloud use within rules and laws.

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)

Compute, storage and networking combined in one software-defined system, such as Dell EMC VxRail.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Defining infrastructure in files that tools apply automatically, so each environment is built the same way.

Measured service

A cloud characteristic: resource use is metered, so it can be monitored, reported and billed.

Microservices architecture

Building an application from small independent services that each do one job and talk through APIs.

On-demand self-service

A cloud characteristic: consumers get resources such as servers or storage on their own, without asking the provider's staff.

Rapid elasticity

A cloud characteristic: resources grow or shrink quickly to follow demand.

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

The largest amount of data, measured in time, that a business can afford to lose in an outage.

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

The longest time a service may stay down before it must be restored.

Rehost (lift and shift)

Moving an application to the cloud as it is, without changing its code.

Replatform

Moving an application to the cloud with small changes, such as a managed database, but no redesign.

Resource pooling

A cloud characteristic: the provider serves many consumers from shared pools of compute, storage and network resources.

Showback

Reporting each business unit's cloud use and cost to it, without sending a bill.