Cloud Essentials+ case studies
Cloud Essentials+ · Put your knowledge to work in context.
This independent study page provides practice for Cloud Essentials+. Its editorial learning areas include Cloud concepts, architecture and service models; Cloud Adoption and Implementation; Cloud Security, Risk and Compliance; Cloud Operations and Management. The questions develop subject knowledge and application through worked reasoning, distinctions between competing answers, and practical scenarios. Study the relevant guide before attempting a mixed set, then explain the evidence or calculation that supports each answer. Topics on this exam: Cloud concepts, architecture and service models, Cloud Adoption and Implementation, Cloud Security, Risk and Compliance, and Cloud Operations and Management. The Cloud Essentials+ case studies are 4 cases and about 886 words.
1A five-year cost comparison with a bounded migration
A fictional retailer compares two options over five years using an undiscounted classroom model. Replacing its owned infrastructure costs five hundred thousand initially and sixty thousand a year to operate. A cloud proposal costs one hundred thirty thousand a year and requires ninety thousand for migration and integration. The figures are supplied hypothetical totals, not quoted vendor prices.
221 words, about 1 min2SaaS access after a role change
A fictional organization uses a managed collaboration service for internal planning documents. The provider maintains the application and underlying servers, while the organization configures users, groups and sharing settings. A staff member moves from one project to another, but keeps an administrator role in the former project and a public sharing link to a budget document. A former contractor’s account is also still active.
221 words, about 1 min3A recovery target does not prescribe one universal architecture
A fictional order service has a recovery-point objective of fifteen minutes and a recovery-time objective of four hours. A tested option creates consistent recovery points every ten minutes and restores the service in three hours after the declared recovery procedure begins. A second option replicates transactions continuously but its tested restoration procedure takes five hours. A third option uses hourly snapshots and restores in two hours.
223 words, about 1 min4An alerts-only budget and a workload left running
A fictional team sets an alerts-only monthly cloud budget of one thousand currency units. The setting sends notifications but has no automated enforcement action attached. A test workload is then left running after a demonstration. In the supplied simplified invoice it consumes nine hundred in compute charges, two hundred in storage and one hundred in transfer charges, all within the same monthly budget scope.
221 words, about 1 min