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Exam AZ900 Topics: cloud-concepts Difficulty: medium

A flower delivery company sees orders multiply around Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. In past years, preparing for those peaks meant long procurement cycles for servers, and much of that equipment sat idle between peaks. At a fundamentals level, how does cloud computing change this planning?

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  1. A. Planning still starts with long procurement cycles, but the provider finances the hardware purchases for the company
  2. B. Planning is handled by the provider, which forecasts the company's demand and provisions capacity on its behalf
  3. C. Planning becomes a single up-front decision: buy capacity for the highest expected peak and keep it running year-round
  4. D. Planning shifts from long procurement cycles to on-demand provisioning: capacity is added for the peak and released afterward
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Correct answer: Planning shifts from long procurement cycles to on-demand provisioning: capacity is added for the peak and released afterward

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-cloud-compute/3-what-cloud-compute/

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