A startup is choosing a cloud provider for a new application. The CTO is concerned about vendor lock-in and wants to keep the option of migrating to another provider in the future. The application is expected to grow quickly, and the team wants to use managed services to reduce operational overhead. Which approach best balances lock-in risk and operational efficiency?

Use a single provider's managed monitoring and logging tools for all observability

Use the provider's native CI/CD pipeline and artifact registry

Use containerized workloads with Kubernetes and keep data in a provider-agnostic object storage format

Use the provider's proprietary serverless functions and NoSQL database exclusively

A small business is migrating its e-commerce site to a cloud provider. The business has no in-house cloud expertise and needs reliable support during the migration and for ongoing operations. The budget is limited, and the business cannot afford a dedicated support engineer. Which support plan feature should the business prioritize?

A large library of self-service documentation and community forums

A dedicated account manager who provides quarterly business reviews

A training program that certifies the business's own staff on the cloud platform

24/7 access to technical support with a guaranteed response time for critical issues

A company is using a cloud provider's proprietary serverless function service. They want to migrate to another provider to reduce costs. The application code is written in Python and uses the provider's SDK for database access. What is the biggest challenge for migration?

The loss of the old provider's community support

Rewriting the application to use the new provider's SDK and event model

The need to retrain staff on the new provider's console

The cost of moving the data to the new provider

A company is evaluating two cloud providers for a mission-critical application. Provider A offers a 99.95% monthly uptime SLA with a 10% service credit for failures. Provider B offers 99.99% monthly uptime but only a 5% credit. The application can tolerate about 30 minutes of downtime per month without significant business impact. Which factor should be the primary decision criterion?

The monthly cost difference between the two providers

The service credit percentage of Provider A

The higher uptime percentage of Provider B

The alignment of the SLA's guaranteed uptime with the application's actual downtime tolerance

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41application · medium
A startup is choosing a cloud provider for a new application. The CTO is concerned about vendor lock-in and wants to keep the option of migrating to another provider in the future. The application is expected to grow quickly, and the team wants to use managed services to reduce operational overhead. Which approach best balances lock-in risk and operational efficiency?
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42application · medium
A small business is migrating its e-commerce site to a cloud provider. The business has no in-house cloud expertise and needs reliable support during the migration and for ongoing operations. The budget is limited, and the business cannot afford a dedicated support engineer. Which support plan feature should the business prioritize?
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43foundation · easy
Which cloud performance metric is typically expressed as a percentage and represents the proportion of time a service is operational and accessible?
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44expert · hard
A company is using a cloud provider's proprietary serverless function service. They want to migrate to another provider to reduce costs. The application code is written in Python and uses the provider's SDK for database access. What is the biggest challenge for migration?
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45application · medium
A company is evaluating two cloud providers for a mission-critical application. Provider A offers a 99.95% monthly uptime SLA with a 10% service credit for failures. Provider B offers 99.99% monthly uptime but only a 5% credit. The application can tolerate about 30 minutes of downtime per month without significant business impact. Which factor should be the primary decision criterion?
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Which cloud performance metric is typically expressed as a percentage and represents the proportion of time a service is operational and accessible?

A company is using a cloud provider's proprietary serverless function service. They want to migrate to another provider to reduce costs. The application code is written in Python and uses the provider's SDK for database access. What is the biggest challenge for migration?

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