AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)Cloud ConceptsHard
During a cloud migration readiness assessment using the AWS CAF, a company's leadership focuses on defining policies, managing risk, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and tracking IT assets across the organization. This work most directly aligns with which CAF perspective?
- ASecurity Perspective
- BGovernance Perspective
- COperations Perspective
- DPlatform Perspective
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Correct answer: B. Governance Perspective
The Governance Perspective of the AWS CAF focuses on skills and processes to align IT strategy and goals with business strategy and goals, including managing risk, ensuring compliance, and tracking IT assets and their financial value.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Security Perspective focuses specifically on achieving security objectives such as visibility, auditing, and incident response, which is a distinct perspective from broader governance/compliance.
- C. Operations Perspective focuses on defining how day-to-day IT operations support business, not risk/compliance policy.
- D. Platform Perspective addresses technical architecture principles and IT systems.
CAF Governance Perspective
A perspective in the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework that focuses on skills and processes to align IT strategy with business strategy, including risk management, compliance, and IT portfolio management.
- One of six CAF perspectives
- Stakeholders typically include CIO, program managers, enterprise architects
- Distinct from the Security perspective, which focuses narrowly on security objectives
Memory trick: Governance sets the rules and tracks the assets.