Cloud ConceptsQuestion 18 of 100
A company wants to avoid the cost and effort of maintaining physical servers. Which cloud advantage most directly addresses this?
a.Increased hardware ownership
b.Reduced infrastructure management responsibility
c.Longer procurement times
d.Higher capital expenditure
Explanation
By moving to the cloud, organizations offload the purchase, maintenance, and refresh of physical hardware to the provider. This reduces the management burden and staffing needed for datacenters. Teams can then focus on applications and business value instead of infrastructure.
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