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Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure - Answer: Define your strategy.
Make a plan.
Ready your organization.
Adopt the cloud.
Govern and manage your cloud environments.
How can Tailwind Traders allow some users to control the virtual machines in each environment
but prevent them from modifying networking and other resources in the same resource group
or Azure subscription?
Create a role assignment through Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC).
Create a policy in Azure Policy that audits resource usage.
Split the environment into separate resource groups. - Answer: Create a role assignment
through Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC).
Which is the best way for Tailwind Traders to ensure that the team deploys only cost-effective
virtual machine SKU sizes?
Create a policy in Azure Policy that specifies the allowed SKU sizes.
Periodically inspect the deployment manually to see which SKU sizes are used.
,Create an Azure RBAC role that defines the allowed virtual machine SKU sizes. - Answer: Create
a policy in Azure Policy that specifies the allowed SKU sizes.
Which is likely the best way for Tailwind Traders to identify which billing department each Azure
resource belongs to?
Track resource usage in a spreadsheet.
Split the deployment into separate Azure subscriptions, where each subscription belongs to its
own billing department.
Apply a tag to each resource that includes the associated billing department. - Answer: Apply a
tag to each resource that includes the associated billing department.
The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure helps customers make their journey to the cloud.
What are the three main stages of the framework?
Plan, Business Justification, and Implementation.
Migrate, Test, and Optimize.
Plan, Ready, and Adopt. - Answer: Plan, Ready, and Adopt.
Motivations for cloud adoption include migration and innovation triggers. Migration triggers
include such things as cost saving and operations optimization. Which of the following is an
example of an innovation trigger which drives cloud adoption?
Reduction in IT staff for on-premises hardware.
Transform products or services.
Increase business agility. - Answer: Transform products or services.
What are the five disciplines of cloud governance?
,Business risk, process, policy and compliance, resource consistency, and deployment
acceleration.
Business risk, policy and compliance, security baseline, process, and operations.
Cost management, security baseline, resource consistency, identity baseline, and deployment
acceleration. - Answer: Cost management, security baseline, resource consistency, identity
baseline, and deployment acceleration.
The common value drivers that business decision makers can use to justify moving their
business to the cloud are Cost, Scale, Productivity, and Reliability. What is the specific value of
scale in cloud computing?
Scale is the ability to deliver the right amount of IT resources.
Scale eliminates capital expense.
Scale eases the burden of data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity. - Answer:
Scale is the ability to deliver the right amount of IT resources.
Financial planning for cloud adoption requires organizations to decide whether to expand on-
premises capabilities or move certain workloads and functions off-premises to cloud-delivered
services. Microsoft has tools that can help. What Microsoft tool is available for a CFO who's
trying to estimate the expected monthly bill and track actual account usage?
The Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator.
The Azure Pricing Calculator.
Microsoft Cost Management. - Answer: The Azure Pricing Calculator.
Which of the following actions is an example of waste, resulting in an increased resource cost?
Archiving infrequently accessed data to an archive storage tier.
, Using a service that automatically adjusts resources that are provisioned to match user load.
Pooling databases to share provisioned capacity.
Running a development environment overnight that is used only during business hours. -
Answer: Running a development environment overnight that is used only during business hours.
Which of the following practices is a good way to reduce costs?
Conducting regular reviews of cloud bills to identify abnormal increases in spend.
Letting all IT teams have access to provision virtual machines of any size.
Provisioning the same capacity in development environments as for production, even though
resource requirements are substantially lower in development environments.
Provisioning virtual machines that include licensing costs rather than using a bring-your-own-
license image. - Answer: Conducting regular reviews of cloud bills to identify abnormal increases
in spend.
Suppose you have recently moved your application to the cloud and your monthly bill seems
higher than expected. The utilization level of your VM is high enough that you're hesitant to
downsize. What might be a reasonable next step you can take to help you find inefficiencies?
Wait a month and recheck your bill.
Increase the amount of application testing you do before each release.
Add monitoring and instrumentation to your application. - Answer: Add monitoring and
instrumentation to your application.
Which of the following is a good example of using testing in your environment?
Waiting for users to reach out to you with reports of errors in your application.
Performing functionality tests in the development environment that are different from
functionality tests in the production environment.
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Answers Graded A+
Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure - Answer: Define your strategy.
Make a plan.
Ready your organization.
Adopt the cloud.
Govern and manage your cloud environments.
How can Tailwind Traders allow some users to control the virtual machines in each environment
but prevent them from modifying networking and other resources in the same resource group
or Azure subscription?
Create a role assignment through Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC).
Create a policy in Azure Policy that audits resource usage.
Split the environment into separate resource groups. - Answer: Create a role assignment
through Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC).
Which is the best way for Tailwind Traders to ensure that the team deploys only cost-effective
virtual machine SKU sizes?
Create a policy in Azure Policy that specifies the allowed SKU sizes.
Periodically inspect the deployment manually to see which SKU sizes are used.
,Create an Azure RBAC role that defines the allowed virtual machine SKU sizes. - Answer: Create
a policy in Azure Policy that specifies the allowed SKU sizes.
Which is likely the best way for Tailwind Traders to identify which billing department each Azure
resource belongs to?
Track resource usage in a spreadsheet.
Split the deployment into separate Azure subscriptions, where each subscription belongs to its
own billing department.
Apply a tag to each resource that includes the associated billing department. - Answer: Apply a
tag to each resource that includes the associated billing department.
The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure helps customers make their journey to the cloud.
What are the three main stages of the framework?
Plan, Business Justification, and Implementation.
Migrate, Test, and Optimize.
Plan, Ready, and Adopt. - Answer: Plan, Ready, and Adopt.
Motivations for cloud adoption include migration and innovation triggers. Migration triggers
include such things as cost saving and operations optimization. Which of the following is an
example of an innovation trigger which drives cloud adoption?
Reduction in IT staff for on-premises hardware.
Transform products or services.
Increase business agility. - Answer: Transform products or services.
What are the five disciplines of cloud governance?
,Business risk, process, policy and compliance, resource consistency, and deployment
acceleration.
Business risk, policy and compliance, security baseline, process, and operations.
Cost management, security baseline, resource consistency, identity baseline, and deployment
acceleration. - Answer: Cost management, security baseline, resource consistency, identity
baseline, and deployment acceleration.
The common value drivers that business decision makers can use to justify moving their
business to the cloud are Cost, Scale, Productivity, and Reliability. What is the specific value of
scale in cloud computing?
Scale is the ability to deliver the right amount of IT resources.
Scale eliminates capital expense.
Scale eases the burden of data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity. - Answer:
Scale is the ability to deliver the right amount of IT resources.
Financial planning for cloud adoption requires organizations to decide whether to expand on-
premises capabilities or move certain workloads and functions off-premises to cloud-delivered
services. Microsoft has tools that can help. What Microsoft tool is available for a CFO who's
trying to estimate the expected monthly bill and track actual account usage?
The Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator.
The Azure Pricing Calculator.
Microsoft Cost Management. - Answer: The Azure Pricing Calculator.
Which of the following actions is an example of waste, resulting in an increased resource cost?
Archiving infrequently accessed data to an archive storage tier.
, Using a service that automatically adjusts resources that are provisioned to match user load.
Pooling databases to share provisioned capacity.
Running a development environment overnight that is used only during business hours. -
Answer: Running a development environment overnight that is used only during business hours.
Which of the following practices is a good way to reduce costs?
Conducting regular reviews of cloud bills to identify abnormal increases in spend.
Letting all IT teams have access to provision virtual machines of any size.
Provisioning the same capacity in development environments as for production, even though
resource requirements are substantially lower in development environments.
Provisioning virtual machines that include licensing costs rather than using a bring-your-own-
license image. - Answer: Conducting regular reviews of cloud bills to identify abnormal increases
in spend.
Suppose you have recently moved your application to the cloud and your monthly bill seems
higher than expected. The utilization level of your VM is high enough that you're hesitant to
downsize. What might be a reasonable next step you can take to help you find inefficiencies?
Wait a month and recheck your bill.
Increase the amount of application testing you do before each release.
Add monitoring and instrumentation to your application. - Answer: Add monitoring and
instrumentation to your application.
Which of the following is a good example of using testing in your environment?
Waiting for users to reach out to you with reports of errors in your application.
Performing functionality tests in the development environment that are different from
functionality tests in the production environment.
