Cloud without surprises

Self-check

Your score stays on your own device.

1. A colleague says: 'Everyone is moving to the cloud, so we must go now.' What is true?

   • Not yet: move when your set-up blocks you
   • Not true: the cloud is only for large firms
   • True, even in the middle of an audit
   • True: waiting only makes the move harder

2. You plan a migration with a supplier. What do you ask for, per part, before anything moves?

   • A promise that nothing will change
   • Which parts may skip their test
   • Only the date of the final switch
   • How you go back if it goes wrong

3. You want to make a server smaller to save costs. What do you do first?

   • Pick the smallest size on the price list
   • Copy the size of the test environment
   • Measure what it really does, including the peaks
   • Halve it and wait to see if anyone complains

4. Someone leaves the company. How does hybrid cloud keep that simple?

   • One account for both halves, switched off just once
   • The local half keeps the account a while longer
   • The cloud provider removes the account
   • Each half has its own login, for safety

5. A director says: 'If we choose a private cloud, everything has to go there.' What is true?

   • True, or the keys stay with the provider
   • Usually not: just the sensitive and heavy systems
   • True: two environments are twice the work
   • Not true: a private cloud holds only backups

6. A provider goes down. What should already be on paper for that environment?

   • A plan to move to a single provider
   • The phone number of the sales team
   • What it would take to rebuild it somewhere else
   • An availability percentage from the brochure

7. A function now runs all day long. What do you check?

   • Whether you can remove the upper limit
   • Whether the function can run on a laptop
   • Nothing: paying per call is cheaper anyway
   • Whether a fixed machine is now cheaper

8. The web shop and the reporting use the same bucket. How do you set access?

   • An open bucket, so everyone finds their files
   • A key each: shop writes, reporting reads
   • One shared key, so nothing breaks
   • Only the IT supplier gets a key