Cloud adoption framework Flashcards

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What are the 6 areas of focus in the Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) called?

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Perspectives

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Name the 2 categories perspectives defined by the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) focus on?

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Business capabilities
Technical capabilities

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Name the 6 categories in the Cloud Adoption Framework

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Business
People
Governance

Platform
Security
Operations

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Ensures IT aligns with business needs.

Creates a strong business case for cloud adoption & prioritize cloud adoption initiatives.

. Which perspective is this?

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Business

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5
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Example roles in the business perspective

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Business/Finance managers
Budget owners
Strategy stakeholders

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Develop organization-wide change management for successful cloud adoption.

Evaluate organizational structures and roles, new skill and process requirements, and identify gaps.

This helps prioritize training, staffing, and organizational changes.

Which perspective is this?

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People

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7
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Example of people roles

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HR / Staffing / people related roles

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Maximise business value and MINIMIZE RISK

Ensure skills & processes align IT strategy with Business strategy

Understand how to update staff skills & processes to ensure business governance in the cloud.

Manage and measure cloud investments to evaluate business outcomes.

Which perspective is this?

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Governance

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Examples of governance perspective roles?

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Chief Information Officer
Program managers
Enterprise architects
BAs
Portfolio managers

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Principles and patterns for implementing new solutions on the cloud, and migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud.

Use a variety of architectural models to understand and communicate the structure of IT systems and their relationships. Describe the architecture of the target state environment in detail.

Which perspective is this?

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Platform

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Example of roles for platform perspective?

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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
IT managers
Solutions architects

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ensures that the organization meets security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, and agility.

Use the AWS CAF to structure the selection and implementation of security controls that meet the organization’s needs.

Which perspective is this an example of?

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Security perspective

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Example roles Security perspective

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Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
IT security managers
IT security analysts

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helps you to enable, run, use, operate, and recover IT workloads to the level agreed upon with your business STAKEHOLDERS

Which perspective is this?

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Operations perspective

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Example operations perspective roles?

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IT operations managers
IT support managers

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16
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Name 6 migration strategies

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Rehosting
Replatforming
Refactoring/re-architecting
Repurchasing
Retaining
Retiring

17
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You want to move an app without any changes.

Which migration strategy would you adopt?

A

Rehosting

18
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Example of when rehosting is used as migration strategy?

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Large legacy migration that needs to scale quickly

19
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You want to make a few small optimizations, but not change the core architecture.

Which migration strategy would you adopt?

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Replatforming

20
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You want to use cloud-native features to reimagine how an appl is architected and developed

Which migration strategy would you adopt?

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Refactoring/re-architecting

21
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When would you use refactoring/re-architecting migration strategy

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to implement a business requirement that would be too difficult to implement in apps existing environment

22
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You want to remove an app that is no longer needed?

What mirgation strategy is this?

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Retiring

23
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You want to keep an app that is critical for the business in the source environment.

What migration strategy should you adopt?

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Retaining

24
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Give an example of when you would use the retaining migration strategy?

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An app needs major refactoring before it can be migrated,
Work that can be postponed until a later time

25
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You want to move from a traditional license to a software-as-a-service model.

Which migration strategy should you adopt?

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Repurchasing

26
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Give an example when you would use repurchasing migration strartegy?

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When you want to replace an existing app with a cloud based app

ie., software found on MARKETPLACE

Migrating from a customer relationship management (CRM) system to Salesforce.com

27
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What is the memory and storage of snowcone?

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4 GB of memory, and 8 TB of usable storage.

28
Q

When would you use Snowball Edge Storage Optimized

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large-scale data migrations and recurring transfer workflows, in addition to local computing with higher capacity needs.

29
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What is memory and storage of Snowball Edge Storage Optimized

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Storage:
80 TB of (HDD) block volume S3 compatible object storage
1 TB of SATA (SSD) for block volumes.

Compute:
40 vCPUs
80GiB of memory to support EC2 instances

30
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When would you use Snowball Edge Compute Optimized

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machine learning, full motion video analysis, analytics, and local computing stacks.

31
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What is the storage and compute for Snowball Edge Compute Optimized

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Storage:
42-TB HDD capacity for S3 or EBS
7.68 TB of usable NVMe SSD capacity for EBS

Compute:
52 vCPUs
208 GiB of memory

32
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What is snowmobile?

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is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS.

You can transfer up to 100 petabytes of data per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi trailer truck.

33
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Name the service you can use to run serverless apps?

A

AWS Lambda

34
Q

Name the 4 AI services:

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Transcribe (convert speech to text)
Comprehend (patterns in text)
Fraud Detector (identify fradulent activity)
Lex (build voice and text chatbots)

35
Q

Name the machine learning service

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SageMaker