A retail company runs its e-commerce platform on a fixed set of on-premises servers sized for peak holiday traffic. For most of the year, the servers are underutilized, but the company must still pay for the hardware, power, and cooling. The CFO wants to reduce the financial risk of over-provisioning while ensuring the platform can handle sudden traffic spikes. Which cloud characteristic would most directly address this concern?

Resource pooling, which lets the provider share infrastructure among multiple customers

Measured service, which charges only for the exact amount of CPU used

Broad network access, enabling customers to reach the platform from any device

Rapid elasticity, allowing resources to scale up and down automatically based on demand

When a company moves from on-premises data centers to the cloud, how does the cost structure typically change?

From capital expenditures to operational expenditures

From operational expenditures to no costs

From operational expenditures to capital expenditures

From variable costs to fixed costs

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A retail company runs its e-commerce platform on a fixed set of on-premises servers sized for peak holiday traffic. For most of the year, the servers are underutilized, but the company must still pay for the hardware, power, and cooling. The CFO wants to reduce the financial risk of over-provisioning while ensuring the platform can handle sudden traffic spikes. Which cloud characteristic would most directly address this concern?
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A company wants to avoid vendor lock-in and use the best services from multiple cloud providers. Which deployment model best describes this approach?
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Which term refers to the time it takes for data to travel from its source to its destination across a network?
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When a company moves from on-premises data centers to the cloud, how does the cost structure typically change?
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Which cloud computing characteristic is best described as the ability to quickly scale resources outward and inward in response to changing demand?
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A company wants to avoid vendor lock-in and use the best services from multiple cloud providers. Which deployment model best describes this approach?

Which term refers to the time it takes for data to travel from its source to its destination across a network?

When a company moves from on-premises data centers to the cloud, how does the cost structure typically change?

Which cloud computing characteristic is best described as the ability to quickly scale resources outward and inward in response to changing demand?

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