CTO Cloud Strategy & Architecture 3

Question 1

Which metric is most meaningful for a CTO to track when assessing whether cloud investments are generating business value?

Accepted Answer

Revenue or product outcomes per dollar of cloud spend

Answer

Business value metrics like revenue per cloud dollar directly link infrastructure investment to outcomes, unlike pure efficiency or activity metrics.

Question 2

A CTO is designing a cloud architecture for HIPAA-compliant healthcare data. Which control is a mandatory architectural requirement?

Accepted Answer

Encryption of PHI at rest and in transit with audit logging of all access

Answer

HIPAA requires encryption of Protected Health Information at rest and in transit along with comprehensive audit logging of all access to PHI.

Question 3

What is the primary architectural benefit of a service mesh in a cloud-native microservices environment?

Accepted Answer

Decouples cross-cutting concerns like mTLS, observability, and traffic management from application code

Answer

A service mesh handles cross-cutting concerns such as mutual TLS, circuit breaking, retries, and distributed tracing at the infrastructure layer without modifying application code.

Question 4

An organization is migrating to the cloud using the '6 Rs' framework. Which migration strategy offers the fastest path to cloud with the least cloud optimization?

Accepted Answer

Rehost (lift-and-shift)

Answer

Rehosting (lift-and-shift) moves applications to the cloud with minimal changes, providing the fastest migration timeline but fewest cloud-native optimizations.

Question 5

A CTO must establish a cloud governance model for 15 autonomous product teams. Which organizational pattern best balances team autonomy with enterprise standards?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) that sets guardrails while enabling team autonomy

Answer

A Cloud Center of Excellence establishes policies, guardrails, and best practices centrally while enabling product teams to move autonomously within those boundaries.

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CTO Cloud Strategy & Architecture 3