Cloud Providers and Business Requirements

What is static stability?

Where in the application lifecycle should security live?

Why shouldn't you size cloud targets by comparing CPU/RAM, and what should you use instead?

Besides pay-as-you-go, what discounted pricing options does AWS offer for committed use?

When would you use pay-as-you-go versus a Compute Savings Plan?

When should innovation enter the cloud business case?

What are low-code/no-code solutions, and what does SAP call this?

Does sustainability follow the shared responsibility model?

What are the two broad approaches to migrating SAP to the cloud?

What methods do cloud providers use to enhance platform availability?

What is observability, and how does it differ from monitoring?

Should you size an SAP system on the cloud for the next 3–5 years like on-premise?

How does scaling differ between PaaS and IaaS, and what does that mean for SAP?

What four lenses should you evaluate an automation solution through?

How should you prioritize what to automate?

What is drift detection, and why is it useful?

In the shared responsibility model, what is the difference between security "of" the cloud and security "in" the cloud?

Why does the independence of the control plane and data plane improve availability?

What is an Availability Zone (AZ)?

How can you tell whether an AWS service is zonal or regional from its creation options?

If you had to define the cloud in just two words, what would they be?

What is the difference between internal and external economies of scale for a cloud provider?

Name two examples of proprietary technology AWS invests in beyond commodity hardware.

How has automation changed the lead time to deploy SAP?

What is an immutable architecture?

What is the core principle for translating business use cases into cloud solutions?

How long does a typical SAP migration project take?

Which reliability metric matters for HA versus DR?

What do RTO and RPO mean?

What does MTTR measure, and which reliability event does it map to?

What are the three building blocks of reliability, and who owns each?

On a cloud platform, what is the difference between the control plane and the data plane?

What are the three scope categories of AWS services, with an example of each?

Give an application-design example of improving reliability in the ABAP stack.

For compliance certifications (e.g., HIPAA, FedRAMP), who is responsible for what?

What is a cost-aware architecture?

When comparing on-premise to cloud cost, what should you compare?

What are most cloud security breaches related to?

What is the core idea of a zero-trust security model?

How integrated are SAP systems, and how does a migration project usually start with integration?