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WAF Cost Management Quiz

Test your knowledge on best practices for optimizing cloud costs and improving operational excellence. This quiz consists of 7 questions covering essential concepts such as resource provisioning, automation, and data protection.

Understand cost reduction strategies
Learn about operational excellence through automation
Identify security needs for different data types

7 Questions2 MinutesCreated by OptimizingCloud43

Which of the following is a good practice 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

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

Which of the following is a good example of using automation to improve operational excellence?

Manually provisioning development environments every day for your development teams

Logging on Linux VMs after deployment and installing the software packages that are required for the application

Using a configuration template to deploy infrastructure in each environment

Manually copying application binaries from your build system to your deployment infrastructure

Which of the following is an example of scaling up?

Updating your application to use a queuing service

Adding more web servers into a web farm

Adding another virtual machine into a database cluster

Updating a virtual machine to a larger size

Suppose you want to increase the availability of your system to provide a better service-level agreement (SLA) to your customers. Which of the following is a guiding principle you can use?

Reduce your target for maximum duration of acceptable data loss

Encrypt all data at rest

Eliminate single point of failure

Which of the following types of data might need to have security protections?

Customer data that contains personal information

Financial data that supports business operations

Intellectual property

All of the above might need security protections

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