A company runs a batch processing job every night that takes 4 hours. The job is not time-sensitive and can be interrupted. The cloud team wants to reduce costs without affecting the job's completion. Which resource management strategy should they implement?

Resize the instances to a larger size to finish the job faster.

Use preemptible or spot instances for the batch job.

Use on-demand instances to ensure the job always runs without interruption.

Move the job to a different region with lower data transfer costs.

Which step is the first in a typical change management process?

Rolling back the change if it fails

Reviewing the change after implementation

A company's legal department needs to store client contracts in the cloud. The contracts contain personally identifiable information (PII). The IT department has a general cloud policy, but the legal department has specific compliance requirements. What should the department-specific policy address?

A policy that allows all employees to access legal contracts for transparency.

The same general policy that applies to all departments.

A policy that prohibits storing contracts in the cloud entirely.

Data encryption and access restrictions specific to legal data.

What is the primary purpose of a standard operating procedure (SOP) in a cloud environment?

To define the high-level strategic goals of the cloud adoption initiative

To record the financial budget allocated for cloud services

To document the step-by-step process for performing a routine task consistently

To list the hardware specifications required for cloud servers

A company's finance department needs read-only access to monthly cost reports in the cloud management platform, while the IT department needs full administrative access to manage virtual machines. The company wants to enforce least privilege. What should the access control policy specify?

Grant all users the same administrative role to simplify management.

Give finance users full access to all cloud resources so they can monitor costs effectively.

Assign finance users a role that only allows viewing cost reports, and IT admins a role that allows managing compute resources.

Create a single role that combines cost report viewing and VM management for all users.

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A company runs a batch processing job every night that takes 4 hours. The job is not time-sensitive and can be interrupted. The cloud team wants to reduce costs without affecting the job's completion. Which resource management strategy should they implement?
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A company's legal department needs to store client contracts in the cloud. The contracts contain personally identifiable information (PII). The IT department has a general cloud policy, but the legal department has specific compliance requirements. What should the department-specific policy address?
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A company's finance department needs read-only access to monthly cost reports in the cloud management platform, while the IT department needs full administrative access to manage virtual machines. The company wants to enforce least privilege. What should the access control policy specify?
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