A startup is migrating its on-premises infrastructure to a public cloud. The CFO wants to shift from large upfront hardware purchases to a model where costs scale with usage and are reported monthly. Which financial approach does this migration primarily represent?

Moving from capital expenditures to operating expenditures

Implementing a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) strategy

Moving from operating expenditures to capital expenditures

Adopting a fixed-cost model with no variable components

A company uses a cloud provider for its infrastructure. The monthly bill includes a flat fee for a dedicated support plan and additional charges for data storage that vary with usage. Which cost is fixed?

The flat fee for the support plan

What is the role of professional development in maintaining cloud competencies?

It helps staff stay current with evolving cloud technologies and best practices

It guarantees a promotion for the employee

It is only necessary for new employees, not existing ones

It is a one-time activity completed during onboarding

Which of the following is an example of a variable cost in a cloud environment?

A flat monthly fee for a reserved virtual machine instance

A monthly subscription fee for a software-as-a-service application

Data transfer fees that increase as more data is moved out of the cloud

A one-time setup fee charged when the cloud account is created

A company runs a web application on cloud VMs. The monthly bill includes a flat fee for a support plan and separate charges that increase when more VMs are running and decrease during off-peak hours. Which cost components are variable?

The monthly subscription fee for the cloud account

The charges for VM usage that scale with the number of running instances

The cost of the cloud provider's data center facilities

The flat fee for the support plan

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Summarize the Financial Aspects of Engaging a Cloud Provider. CLO-002 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Business Principles of Cloud Environments domain, which accounts for 28% of the CLO-002 exam. CompTIA does not publish an official question count, but from its 60-minute exam (~25–40 total, ~7–11 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 35 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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A startup is migrating its on-premises infrastructure to a public cloud. The CFO wants to shift from large upfront hardware purchases to a model where costs scale with usage and are reported monthly. Which financial approach does this migration primarily represent?
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A company uses a cloud provider for its infrastructure. The monthly bill includes a flat fee for a dedicated support plan and additional charges for data storage that vary with usage. Which cost is fixed?
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What is the role of professional development in maintaining cloud competencies?
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Which of the following is an example of a variable cost in a cloud environment?
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A company runs a web application on cloud VMs. The monthly bill includes a flat fee for a support plan and separate charges that increase when more VMs are running and decrease during off-peak hours. Which cost components are variable?
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