A customer is willing to consider moving important workloads into a hybrid cloud configuration by migrating them to Microsoft Azure, but expresses concern when it comes to on-site versus public cloud health monitoring of these critical applications. Which feature of Microsoft datacenter solutions can provide continuous health monitoring for workloads running on Microsoft Azure?
A. Windows Server 2012 R2 Server ManagerB. Custom Windows PowerShell 4.0 scripting
C. System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager with Microsoft Azure Pack
D. Microsoft Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager
Answer : D.
Presales Technical Assessment
- At which point in the migration planning process is it appropriate to include the customer’s front-line business and operations executives?
- What seems to be the number one business driver moving small- and medium-sized businesses towards virtualization and the cloud?
- To configure the in-box multi-tenant gateway that allows seamless connectivity between physical and virtual networks, which component of System Center 2012 R2 is required for configuration?
- Which of the following is a benefit of a Microsoft hybrid cloud solution that is important to technical decision makers (TDMs)?
- A customer is interested in enabling a private cloud for shared resource pooling but is unsure of the advantage of moving to a hybrid cloud infrastructure. What are the key advantages of a hybrid cloud that this customer should understand?
- Microsoft Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager combines three components of Microsoft datacenter solutions to deliver cloud-based workload continuity. Which of the following is not one of them?
- A customer is already attempting to employ cloud services and infrastructure from different providers, but the increased complexity for his IT staff and the number of new tools his users need to learn are making these investments seem impractical and wasteful. How can Microsoft datacenter solutions help?
- What is one key benefit that customers can leverage by implementing a datacenter without boundaries using Microsoft datacenter solutions?
- To discover the storage impact of enabling multiple recovery sites on customer virtual and physical infrastructure, what is an appropriate best practice?
- A customer asks why he should implement private cloud when he is already employing virtualization for effective server consolidation. What is an appropriate response?
- Which of the following is a new IT trend that should be relevant to both enterprises and small- or medium-sized businesses (SMBs)?
- System Center 2012 R2 includes metrics for other Microsoft datacenter solution platforms, such as Internet Information Services (IIS) pools. These metrics are enabled through tighter integration between which combinations of System Center 2012 R2 components?
- What is one reason that the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy enabled by Microsoft datacenter solutions could be attractive to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)?
- Why are customers concerned with price versus performance for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployments better served with Microsoft Azure than with Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
- A customer claims that the state of OpenStack as only a framework is appealing due to its potential for customization. What is an appropriate response?
- A customer dismisses Microsoft datacenter solutions in favor of VMware, stating that VMware has a better enterprise IT roadmap. What is an appropriate response?
- A customer has already invested in VMware ESXi and is reluctant to investigate a migration, insisting that the VMware solution is essentially the same as Microsoft datacenter solutions. What is one point to emphasize with this customer?
- A customer objects to System Center 2012 R2 on the basis that she is already invested in HP and a migration would be too expensive. What is an appropriate response?
- A customer objects to System Center 2012 R2 on the basis that she is already invested in HP and a migration would be too expensive. What is an appropriate response?
- What does HP claim is an important strength of its datacenter and cloud management solution?
- Which of the following is not one of the “big four” competitors to Microsoft datacenter solutions?
- Which of the following is a hybrid cloud benefit that is important to a business decision maker (BDM)?
- Which of the following is a hybrid cloud benefit that is important to a business decision maker (BDM)?
- A customer is concerned that enabling a cloud-based architecture will unduly stress her already over-burdened IT staff. What is an important selling point of cloud-based infrastructure that this customer should understand?