The operations manager asks you for a list of recommended practices that she should consider when migrating a J2EE application to the cloud. Which three practices should you recommend? Choose 3 answers
Operational parameters such as oil pressure are adjustable on each of TerramEarth's vehicles to increase their efficiency, depending on their environmental conditions. Your primary goal is to increase the operating efficiency of all 20 million cellular and unconnected vehicles in the field. How can you accomplish this goal?
Correct Answer: B
Explanation/Reference: TerramEarth, B Testlet 1 Company Overview TerramEarth manufactures heavy equipment for the mining and agricultural industries. About 80% of their business is from mining and 20% from agriculture. They currently have over 500 dealers and service centers in 100 countries. Their mission is to build products that make their customers more productive. Solution Concept There are 20 million TerramEarth vehicles in operation that collect 120 fields of data per second. Data is stored locally on the vehicle and can be accessed for analysis when a vehicle is serviced. The data is downloaded via a maintenance port. This same port can be used to adjust operational parameters, allowing the vehicles to be upgraded in the field with new computing modules. Approximately 200,000 vehicles are connected to a cellular network, allowing TerramEarth to collect data directly. At a rate of 120 fields of data per second, with 22 hours of operation per day, TerramEarth collects a total of about 9 TB/day from these connected vehicles. Existing Technical Environment TerramEarth's existing architecture is composed of Linux and Windows-based systems that reside in a single U.S, west coast based data center. These systems gzip CSV files from the field and upload via FTP, and place the data in their data warehouse. Because this process takes time, aggregated reports are based on data that is 3 weeks old. With this data, TerramEarth has been able to preemptively stock replacement parts and reduce unplanned downtime of their vehicles by 60%. However, because the data is stale, some customers are without their vehicles for up to 4 weeks while they wait for replacement parts. Business Requirements * Decrease unplanned vehicle downtime to less than 1 week * Support the dealer network with more data on how their customers use their equipment to better position new products and services * Have the ability to partner with different companies - especially with seed and fertilizer suppliers in the fast- growing agricultural business - to create compelling joint offerings for their customers Technical Requirements * Expand beyond a single datacenter to decrease latency to the American midwest and east coast * Create a backup strategy * Increase security of data transfer from equipment to the datacenter * Improve data in the data warehouse * Use customer and equipment data to anticipate customer needs Application 1: Data ingest A custom Python application reads uploaded datafiles from a single server, writes to the data warehouse. Compute: * Windows Server 2008 R2 - 16 CPUs - 128 GB of RAM - 10 TB local HDD storage Application 2: Reporting An off the shelf application that business analysts use to run a daily report to see what equipment needs repair. Only 2 analysts of a team of 10 (5 west coast, 5 east coast) can connect to the reporting application at a time. Compute: * Off the shelf application. License tied to number of physical CPUs - Windows Server 2008 R2 - 16 CPUs - 32 GB of RAM - 500 GB HDD Data warehouse: * A single PostgreSQL server - RedHat Linux - 64 CPUs - 128 GB of RAM - 4x 6TB HDD in RAID 0 Executive Statement Our competitive advantage has always been in our manufacturing process, with our ability to build better vehicles for lower cost than our competitors. However, new products with different approaches are constantly being developed, and I'm concerned that we lack the skills to undergo the next wave of transformations in our industry. My goals are to build our skills while addressing immediate market needs through incremental innovations.
Question 33
Your company has developed a monolithic, 3-tier application to allow external users to upload and share files. The solution cannot be easily enhanced and lacks reliability. The development team would like to re-architect the application to adopt microservices and a fully managed service approach, but they need to convince their leadership that the effort is worthwhile. Which advantage(s) should they highlight to leadership?
Correct Answer: C
The new approach will make it easier to decouple infrastructure from an application, develop and release new features, manage the underlying infrastructure, manage CI/CD pipelines and perform A/B testing, and scale the solution if necessary.
Question 34
Your agricultural division is experimenting with fully autonomous vehicles. You want your architecture to promote strong security during vehicle operation. Which two architecture should you consider? Choose 2 answers:
Correct Answer: C,F
Topic 3, JencoMart Case Study Company Overview JencoMart is a global retailer with over 10,000 stores in 16 countries. The stores carry a range of goods, such as groceries, tires, and jewelry. One of the company's core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years. Company Background JencoMart started as a general store in 1931, and has grown into one of the world's leading brands known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical stores to a stores and online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoMart has little presence in Asia, but considers that market key for future growth. Solution Concept JencoMart wants to migrate several critical applications to the cloud but has not completed a technical review to determine their suitability for the cloud and the engineering required for migration. They currently host all of these applications on infrastructure that is at its end of life and is no longer supported. Existing Technical Environment JencoMart hosts all of its applications in 4 data centers: 3 in North American and 1 in Europe, most applications are dual-homed. JencoMart understands the dependencies and resource usage metrics of their on-premises architecture. Application Customer loyalty portal LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application served from the two JencoMart-owned U.S. data centers. Database * Oracle Database stores user profiles * 20 TB * Complex table structure * Well maintained, clean data * Strong backup strategy * PostgreSQL database stores user credentials * Single-homed in US West No redundancy Backed up every 12 hours * 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA) * Authenticates all users Compute * 30 machines in US West Coast, each machine has: Twin, dual core CPUs 32GB of RAM * Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1) * 20 machines in US East Coast, each machine has: Single-cdourealCPU 24 GB of RAM * Twin 250 GB HDD (RAID 1) Storage * Access to shared 100 TB SAN in each location * Tape backup every week Business Requirements * Optimize for capacity during peak periods and value during off-peak periods * Guarantee service availably and support * Reduce on-premises footprint and associated financial and environmental impact. * Move to outsourcing model to avoid large upfront costs associated with infrastructure purchase * Expand services into Asia. Technical Requirements * Assess key application for cloud suitability. * Modify application for the cloud. * Move applications to a new infrastructure. * Leverage managed services wherever feasible * Sunset 20% of capacity in existing data centers * Decrease latency in Asia CEO Statement JencoMart will continue to develop personal relationships with our customers as more people access the web. The future of our retail business is in the global market and the connection between online and in-store experiences. As a large global company, we also have a responsibility to the environment through 'green' initiatives and polices. CTO Statement The challenges of operating data centers prevents focus on key technologies critical to our long- term success. Migrating our data services to a public cloud infrastructure will allow us to focus on big data and machine learning to improve our service customers. CFO Statement Since its founding JencoMart has invested heavily in our data services infrastructure. However, because of changing market trends, we need to outsource our infrastructure to ensure our long-term success. This model will allow us to respond to increasing customer demand during peak and reduce costs.
Question 35
For this question, refer to the TerramEarth case study. To speed up data retrieval, more vehicles will be upgraded to cellular connections and be able to transmit data to the ETL process. The current FTP process is error-prone and restarts the data transfer from the start of the file when connections fail, which happens often. You want to improve the reliability of the solution and minimize data transfer time on the cellular connections. What should you do?
