Question 8
Domain 1: Cloud ConceptsA company wants to reduce manual effort and make its infrastructure deployments more consistent across environments. Which approach BEST demonstrates the benefit of automation in cloud economics?
Correct answer: B
Explanation
Automation improves cloud operations by reducing manual work and increasing consistency in provisioning and configuration management. Services such as AWS CloudFormation help standardize repeatable deployments across environments. — 05-AWS_Core_Services.md
Why each option is right or wrong
A. Create each environment manually so administrators can adjust settings during every deployment.
Automation reduces manual provisioning effort and improves consistency across deployments.
B. Use AWS CloudFormation to automate provisioning and configuration management for repeatable deployments.
The source identifies automation benefits in provisioning and configuration management and gives AWS CloudFormation as the example service. In this scenario, using CloudFormation directly addresses the goal of reducing manual effort while making deployments consistent across environments.
C. Delay infrastructure setup until users request resources individually through manual service tickets.
Provisioning benefits come from automation, not from adding manual request and approval steps.
D. Assign separate administrators to configure each environment independently to increase flexibility.
Configuration management benefits from standardized automated processes rather than independent manual configuration.