70-672 Question #116: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

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Options

• ACentralized purchasing
• BDecentralized purchasing
• CTransactional purchasing
• DDepartment-wide purchasing

Explanation

Case Study 9 - Wide Wold Importers (Question 117 - Question 126) Company Background Corporate Information Wide World Importers sells household items through mail order. The company is located in New York. Wide World Importers has an affiliate named Litware, Inc. Litware is located in Paris. Existing Environment Existing Licensing Solution Wide World Importers has a Select Agreement that expires in 60 days. Litware independently chooses the products it licenses. Litware purchases all licenses under an Open License agreement. The entire organization does not have Software Assurance for its licenses. Existing IT Environment Wide World Importers has 500 desktops. The desktops run Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista Business. The desktops also run Microsoft Office 2003. Wide World Importers has a server farm that has various editions of Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server. The farm also contains Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft System Center. Litware has 200 desktops. The desktops run Windows XP Professional and various editions of Office. Litware has servers that run various operating systems, including Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003. Litware uses Exchange Server 2003 and SQL Server. Business Requirements Wide World Importers plans to acquire two new affiliates during the next 18 months. Wide World Importers plans to open a new datacenter with 25 new dual processor servers to host all of the server applications required for the company. Wide World Importers wants to consolidate its server workloads into a highly virtualized Litware purchases a new server. The new server will run the latest version of Windows Server and Exchange Server. Wide World Importers has the following business goals: - Refresh all the desktops every three years. - Provide global management of licensing for all the affiliates. - Minimize the costs associated with the new datacenter project. - Upgrade all products to the latest versions as they become available. - Accurately predict the licensing costs of software for the new - Reduce costs and administrative overhead by standardizing all desktop - Ensure that all on-premise Exchange servers meet or exceed an up-time of 99.9 percent. - Centralize the purchasing process for the entire organization, including for the new affiliates. - Reduce the administrative overhead for the deployment of desktop software and the management of server software. - Provide web-based search tools so that users can find files and business data located in different line-of-business (LOB) applications throughout the entire organization.

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