A traditional enterprise is moving its data center to Google Cloud. The CFO wants to minimize upfront capital expenditure and shift to a predictable operating model. The CTO is concerned about long-term costs of running a large, steady-state workload. Which approach best balances these concerns?

Run the workload on preemptible VMs to reduce cost, accepting that they may be terminated.

Move everything to serverless functions to ensure the lowest possible cost at all times.

Use committed-use discounts for the steady-state workload to reduce OpEx while avoiding CapEx.

Purchase a large amount of reserved physical hardware to host in a colocation facility.

What is the primary purpose of a change impact assessment?

To assign responsibility for implementing the change

To create a detailed project plan for the change

To determine the financial cost of the change

To identify the potential effects of a change on people, processes, and technology

A company is migrating its data warehouse to BigQuery. The current team is proficient in SQL but has no experience with partitioning, clustering, or cost controls. The migration must be completed in two months. You have a budget for either a two-week external training course or a part-time consultant for the duration of the project. Which option is more effective for long-term capability?

Hire the part-time consultant to mentor the team during the migration.

Do both the training course and hire the consultant, exceeding the budget.

Have the team learn from online documentation and community forums.

Send the team to the two-week training course and then have them build the migration independently.

What is the primary difference between capital expenditure (CapEx) and operational expenditure (OpEx) in cloud computing?

CapEx is used in public cloud, while OpEx is used in private cloud

CapEx is a one-time upfront cost, while OpEx is a recurring cost

CapEx is only for hardware, while OpEx is only for software

CapEx is always cheaper than OpEx

What is the primary goal of resource optimization?

To maximize the number of resources used

To improve efficiency and reduce waste in resource allocation

To eliminate all unused resources

To reduce the quality of service to save costs

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A traditional enterprise is moving its data center to Google Cloud. The CFO wants to minimize upfront capital expenditure and shift to a predictable operating model. The CTO is concerned about long-term costs of running a large, steady-state workload. Which approach best balances these concerns?
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A company is migrating its data warehouse to BigQuery. The current team is proficient in SQL but has no experience with partitioning, clustering, or cost controls. The migration must be completed in two months. You have a budget for either a two-week external training course or a part-time consultant for the duration of the project. Which option is more effective for long-term capability?
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