Exam: Cloud Digital Leader 0 Likes
Your Windows Server licenses are up for renewal in a month, and you (Digital Leader)
You are currently managing workloads running on Windows Server for which your company owns the licenses. Your workloads are only needed during working hours, which allows you to shut down the instances during the weekend. Your Windows Server licenses are up for renewal in a month, and you want to optimize your license cost.
What should you do?
A) Renew your licenses for an additional period of 3 years. Renew your licenses for an additional period of 3 years. Negotiate a cost reduction with your current hosting provider wherein infrastructure cost is reduced when workloads are not in use.
B) Renew your licenses for an additional period of 2 years. Negotiate a cost reduction by committing to an automatic renewal of the licenses at the end of the 2 year period.
C) Migrate the workloads to Compute Engine with a bring-your-own-license (BYOL) model.
D) Migrate the workloads to Compute Engine with a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model.
Solution
Correct answer: D) Migrate the workloads to Compute Engine with a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model.
By distributing the virtual machines across different zones within the same region, your organization can ensure redundancy in case of any zone-specific failures or disruptions. This setup provides high availability and fault tolerance.
Additionally, locating the virtual machines within the same region allows for fast communication between them, as the network latency within a region is typically lower compared to communication across regions. This ensures that the parts of the application can communicate with each other in less than 10 milliseconds, meeting your organization's requirement for fast communication.
Choosing multiple regions (Option C) or multiple zones per region (Option D) may provide additional redundancy but could potentially increase network latency, which may not meet the requirement for extremely fast communication.
By migrating the workloads to Compute Engine with a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) model, you can take advantage of the cloud provider's infrastructure and pay for the resources you consume on an hourly basis. This eliminates the need to renew your Windows Server licenses separately and reduces upfront licensing costs.
Category: Infrastructure and application modernization
Language: English