IBM Foundations of IBM Cloud Computing Architecture V2 Set 1

A customer has heard a lot about Amazon and their EC2 offering. Which comparable IBM offering should be discussed with this customer?

A customer wants to deploy a private cloud that takes advantage of unused computer resources within their data center. Which IBM solution should be discussed with this customer?

What differentiates cloud computing from utility computing?

Aside from using the common Web transports, Web services also require which component?

 

A large enterprise is experiencing considerable cost increases in supplying physical hardware to their application development team primarily for testing. They are looking to virtualize most of their test lab requirements but at this time they do not have any virtualization technology, middleware, or hardware capable to support such a service. They would also like a system that includes provisioning request management with multi-level approval capabilities. They also need a solution that can be up and running as quickly as possible. Which IBM cloud solution offering is best suited for this client scenario?

If security is the primary concern, which type of cloud infrastructure is best suited for multi-client environments?

Which feature of the IBM Cloud Computing Reference Architecture V2 allows for cloud computing engineers to feel comfortable that their environment includes people management for security?

Which critical business process must be reviewed to automate cloud services?

Which Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL v3 volume addresses the part of the life cycle where the services and value are actually directly delivered; and this volume also considers monitoring of problems and balance between service reliability and cost?

What are the Infrastructure as a Service layers?