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A company is applying the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to prepare for a large-scale migration. One workstream focuses on ensuring that workloads are deployed, operated, monitored, and can recover from incidents efficiently, using practices such as site reliability engineering (SRE). Which CAF perspective does this describe?
- ABusiness Perspective
- BGovernance Perspective
- COperations Perspective
- DPlatform Perspective
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Correct answer: C. Operations Perspective
The Operations Perspective of AWS CAF focuses on defining how day-to-day, quarter-to-quarter, and year-to-year business operations are conducted, including deployment, monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery for cloud workloads.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Business Perspective focuses on aligning IT strategy with business outcomes, not day-to-day operations.
- B. Governance Perspective focuses on managing risk and skills, not operational execution.
- D. Platform Perspective focuses on building scalable, repeatable infrastructure provisioning patterns, not operational monitoring.
CAF Operations Perspective
An AWS CAF perspective focused on ensuring cloud workloads are effectively deployed, operated, monitored, and recovered to support business requirements.
- Includes SRE practices
- Covers incident and problem management
- Emphasizes observability and resilience
Memory trick: Operations = keeping the lights on and the system healthy.