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What is essential for a team to achieve business success within their workload?
What is essential for a team to achieve business success within their workload?
Why is it important to evaluate customer needs involving key stakeholders?
Why is it important to evaluate customer needs involving key stakeholders?
How should teams manage risks and benefits when determining focus areas?
How should teams manage risks and benefits when determining focus areas?
What is a key practice to ensure that priorities remain relevant?
What is a key practice to ensure that priorities remain relevant?
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What should a risk registry contain?
What should a risk registry contain?
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When is it acceptable to permit certain risks to remain unaddressed?
When is it acceptable to permit certain risks to remain unaddressed?
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What factors should be considered in prioritizing risks?
What factors should be considered in prioritizing risks?
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What role does organizational governance play in focus efforts?
What role does organizational governance play in focus efforts?
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What should teams understand to achieve business outcomes effectively?
What should teams understand to achieve business outcomes effectively?
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Why is it important to have identified owners for each application and workload?
Why is it important to have identified owners for each application and workload?
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What mechanism should teams have to support innovation?
What mechanism should teams have to support innovation?
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What role should senior leadership play in team engagement?
What role should senior leadership play in team engagement?
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What should be encouraged among team members to maintain their interest and engagement?
What should be encouraged among team members to maintain their interest and engagement?
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How can the understanding of business value influence team actions?
How can the understanding of business value influence team actions?
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What is a key factor in minimizing the impact when outcomes are at risk?
What is a key factor in minimizing the impact when outcomes are at risk?
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Which statement best describes the approach to team responsibilities?
Which statement best describes the approach to team responsibilities?
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What is the primary goal of a cloud operating model in CloudOps transformation?
What is the primary goal of a cloud operating model in CloudOps transformation?
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Which principle emphasizes the need for regular updates and scalability in cloud operations?
Which principle emphasizes the need for regular updates and scalability in cloud operations?
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What is a key advantage of applying automation in cloud environments?
What is a key advantage of applying automation in cloud environments?
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How should performance and objective monitoring be approached in CloudOps?
How should performance and objective monitoring be approached in CloudOps?
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What is meant by 'safely automate where possible' in cloud operations?
What is meant by 'safely automate where possible' in cloud operations?
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Which practice is necessary to ensure operational procedures remain effective?
Which practice is necessary to ensure operational procedures remain effective?
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What are guardrails in the context of cloud automation?
What are guardrails in the context of cloud automation?
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What does aligning goals and operational KPIs at all levels contribute to?
What does aligning goals and operational KPIs at all levels contribute to?
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What is the primary purpose of implementing observability in a workload?
What is the primary purpose of implementing observability in a workload?
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Which approach helps in reducing defects and improving flow into production?
Which approach helps in reducing defects and improving flow into production?
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What is a strategy to mitigate deployment risks?
What is a strategy to mitigate deployment risks?
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How can you evaluate the operational readiness of a workload?
How can you evaluate the operational readiness of a workload?
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What is the role of resource tagging in resource management?
What is the role of resource tagging in resource management?
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What is a recommended practice when changes are made to evaluation checklists for workloads?
What is a recommended practice when changes are made to evaluation checklists for workloads?
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Which of the following describes the use of 'pre-mortems' in operational readiness?
Which of the following describes the use of 'pre-mortems' in operational readiness?
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What does adopting operations activities as code aim to achieve?
What does adopting operations activities as code aim to achieve?
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What is the primary focus of service-oriented architecture (SOA)?
What is the primary focus of service-oriented architecture (SOA)?
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How does microservices architecture differ from service-oriented architecture (SOA)?
How does microservices architecture differ from service-oriented architecture (SOA)?
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What is a key practice for improving the mean time between failures (MTBF) in distributed systems?
What is a key practice for improving the mean time between failures (MTBF) in distributed systems?
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What does the mean time to recovery (MTTR) refer to in a distributed system?
What does the mean time to recovery (MTTR) refer to in a distributed system?
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Why is change management important in reliable workload operation?
Why is change management important in reliable workload operation?
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What role do logs and metrics play in the reliability of workload resources?
What role do logs and metrics play in the reliability of workload resources?
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What is one way to respond to increased user demand in a workload using AWS?
What is one way to respond to increased user demand in a workload using AWS?
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What is a potential benefit of allowing auditing of change history in workloads?
What is a potential benefit of allowing auditing of change history in workloads?
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Study Notes
CloudOps Transformation
- Leadership must be fully invested and committed to a cloud operating model for an efficient CloudOps transformation
- A cloud operating model utilizes people, processes, and technology to scale, optimize productivity and differentiate through agility
- The organization's long-term vision should be translated into goals and communicated across the enterprise to stakeholders and consumers of cloud services.
- Goals and operational KPIs should be aligned at all levels to sustain the long-term value derived from cloud transformation
- Observability is crucial to gain a comprehensive understanding of workload behavior, performance, reliability, cost, and health
- Key performance indicators (KPIs) and observability telemetry can inform decisions and prompt action when business outcomes are at risk
- Proactive improvements to performance, reliability, and cost are driven by data from observability
- Automation can be applied to entire cloud environments, defining workloads and operations as code, and updating and initiating operations in response to events
- Automation safety is applied by configuring guardrails, including rate control, error thresholds, and approvals to achieve consistent responses, limit human error, and reduce operator toil
- Smaller, frequent, reversible changes are encouraged through scalable and loosely coupled workloads using automated deployment techniques for faster reversal to maintain quality and adapt to market changes
- Operations procedures should be refined frequently as workloads evolve, and opportunities to improve them are identified and implemented
Organization
- Teams must have a shared understanding of the entire workload, their role in it, and shared business goals to set priorities for business success
- Evaluate internal and external customer needs involving key stakeholders to focus efforts and verify understanding of support required for achieving business outcomes
- Ensure awareness of guidelines or obligations defined by organizational governance and external factors, such as regulatory compliance requirements
- Validate mechanisms for identifying changes to internal governance and external compliance requirements, and apply due diligence when no requirements are identified
- Regularly review priorities to address changing needs
- Evaluate business threats (e.g., business risk, liabilities, and information security threats) and maintain this information in a risk registry
- Evaluate the impact of risks, trade-offs between competing interests, and alternative approaches
- Manage benefits and risks to make informed decisions on where to focus efforts, addressing unacceptable risks
- Teams need to understand their part in achieving business outcomes and the role of other teams in theirs, with shared goals
- Understanding responsibility, ownership, how decisions are made, and who has authority to make decisions helps to focus efforts
- It is unreasonable to expect a single operating model to support all teams and workloads
- Identify owners for each application, workload, platform, and infrastructure component, and ensure each process and procedure has an identified owner
- Understanding the business value of each component, process, and procedure informs the actions of team members
- Clearly define team member responsibilities with mechanisms to identify responsibility and ownership
- Provide mechanisms for requesting additions, changes, and exceptions to avoid constricting innovation
- Define agreements between teams describing their collaboration and supporting business outcomes
- Support team members to enable them to be more effective in taking action and supporting business outcomes
- Engaged senior leadership sets expectations and measures success, acting as the sponsor, advocate, and driver for adopting best practices and organizational evolution
- Team members should take action when outcomes are at risk
- Encourage escalation to decision-makers and stakeholders when there is a risk
- Provide timely, clear, and actionable communications of known risks and planned events for timely and appropriate actions
- Encourage experimentation to accelerate learning and keep team members engaged
- Support teams in growing their skill sets by providing dedicated structured time for learning
- AWS CloudFormation enables consistent, templated, sandbox development, test, and production environments with increasing levels of operations control
Observability
- Implement observability in workloads to understand their state and make data-driven decisions based on business requirements
Reducing Defects
- Adopt approaches that improve the flow of changes into production, achieving fast feedback on quality and bug fixing
- These practices accelerate beneficial changes, limit issues deployed, and achieve rapid identification and remediation of issues introduced through deployment activities
Mitigating Deployment Risks
- Adopt approaches that provide fast feedback on quality and rapid recovery from changes with undesired outcomes
- These mitigate the impact of issues introduced through deployment of changes
Operational Readiness
- Evaluate the operational readiness of workloads, processes, procedures, and personnel to understand operational risks
- Invest in implementing operations activities as code to maximize productivity, minimize error rates, and achieve automated responses
- Use “pre-mortems” to anticipate failure and create procedures where appropriate
- Apply metadata using Resource Tags and AWS Resource Groups following a consistent tagging strategy for identifying resources
- Tag resources for organization, cost accounting, access controls, and targeting the running of automated operations activities
- Adopt deployment practices that take advantage of cloud elasticity for faster implementations
- Plan how to address live systems that no longer comply with changes to checklists used for evaluating workloads
Reliability
- Observability is the key to understanding workload interactions and output
- Highly scalable and reliable workloads can be built using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or microservices architecture, where software components become reusable
- Distributed systems rely on communication networks to interconnect components, and operate reliably despite data loss or latency
Interactions in a Distributed System to Prevent Failures
- Workloads must operate reliably despite data loss or latency
- Components in the distributed system must operate in a way that does not negatively impact other components or the workload
- These practices prevent failures and improve mean time between failures (MTBF)
Interactions in a Distributed System to Mitigate Failures
- Workloads must operate reliably despite data loss or latency
- Components in the distributed system must operate in a way that does not negatively impact other components or the workload
- These practices allow workloads to withstand stresses or failures, recover more quickly, and mitigate the impact of impairments
- The result is improved mean time to recovery (MTTR)
Change Management
- Changes to workloads or their environments must be accommodated for reliable operation
- Changes include those imposed on workloads (such as demand spikes), and those from within (such as feature deployments and security patches)
- AWS allows you to monitor the behavior of a workload and automate the response to KPIs
- Control user permissions for workload changes and audit their history
Monitoring Workload Resources
- Logs and metrics are powerful tools for understanding workload health
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This quiz covers the critical components of CloudOps transformation, emphasizing the commitment of leadership and the integration of people, processes, and technology. It also highlights the importance of aligning goals with operational KPIs and utilizing observability for performance insights. Participants will learn how these elements contribute to scaling and optimizing cloud operations.
