CC 5.1 - Cloud Adoption Considerations

Which consideration refers to verifying that the cloud service model (e.g. SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) fits the organisation’s requirements?

• Scalability

• Service-model appropriateness

• Infrastructure suitability

• Exit planning

An organisation bound by strict data-sovereignty regulations must pay particular attention to which consideration?

• Redundancy

• Performance metrics

• Deployment-model compliance

• Cost-affordability

Moving from on-premises security to a cloud provider’s data centre might impact which of the following?

• Peak-hour pricing

• Legal and regulatory requirements

• Application architecture

• Internal help-desk staffing

Before contracting a cloud vendor, you check their historical uptime and downtime figures. This is an example of evaluating their:

• Exit plan

• Track record and guaranteed uptime

• Service model

• Infrastructure suitability

Which metric specifically measures the percentage of time a service is available?

• Downtime

• Latency

• Uptime

• Throughput

Ensuring the cloud service can grow seamlessly as your user base increases is assessing its:

• Affordability

• Scalability

• Physical security

• Exit readiness

Checking that a vendor has spare capacity and fail-over systems is evaluating their:

• Performance metrics

• Deployment model

A business wants to verify you can track CPU and network usage against your SLA. This relates to:

• Service-model suitability

• Performance-metrics monitoring

• Data-sovereignty

• Exit planning

Comparing rates for “peak” versus “off-peak” usage before signing up addresses the vendor’s:

• Redundancy capabilities

• Cost-affordability

• Physical security

• Regulatory compliance

Auditing the physical security of a vendor’s data centre (e.g. access controls, environmental protections) covers which consideration?

• Scalability

• Secure-facility protection

• Service-model appropriateness

• Monitoring tools