Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Question 1

What is the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure?

Answer 1

Collection of documentation, technical guidance, best practices, and tools that aid in aligning business, organizational readiness, and technology strategies.

Question 2

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure structure

Answer 2

Strategy

• Plan
• Ready
• Adopt

Govern and Manage

Question 3

Strategy Overview

Answer 3

• Understand Motivations
• Business outcomes
• Business justification
• First adoption project

Question 4

Plan Overview

Answer 4

• Rationalize digital estate
• Initial organization alignment
• Skills readiness plan
• Cloud adoption plan

Question 5

Ready Overview

Answer 5

• Azure readiness guide
• First landing zone
• Expand the blueprint
• Best practice Validation

Question 6

Adopt Overview

Answer 6

Migrate
- First workload migration
- Expanded scenarios
- Best practice validation
- Process Improvements
Innovate
- Innovation Guide
- Expanded scenarios
- Best practice validation
- Process Improvements

Question 7

Strategy - Motivations

Answer 7

• Preparation for new technical capabilities
  Migrations
• Save costs
• Reduce complexity
• Optimize operations
• Increase business agility
  Innovation
• Improve experiences and engagements
• Transform products or services
• Disrupt markets

Question 8

Strategy - Tools to support financial planning

Answer 8

• Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator: Use the TCO calculator to estimate the cost savings you can realize by migrating your application workloads to Azure.
• Azure pricing calculator: Estimate your expected monthly bill by using the pricing calculator.
• Microsoft Cost Management + Billing: Use and manage Azure and other cloud resources through a multiple-cloud cost management solution.

Question 9

Strategy - Business justification

Answer 9

• Cost: Eliminates capital expense.
• Scale: Ability to scale elastically, delivering the right amount of IT resources
• Productivity: Removes the need for many IT management chores
• Reliability: Eases the burden of data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity

Question 10

Plan - Rationalize your digital estate

Answer 10

Understand the organization’s current digital estate to maximize return and minimize risks by running a workload assessment.
- Rehost
- Refactor
- Rearchitect
- Rebuild/new
- Replace

Question 11

Plan - Create your cloud adoption plan

Answer 11

• Review sample business outcomes.
• Identify the leading metrics that best represent progress toward the identified business outcomes.
• Establish a financial model that aligns with the outcomes and learning metrics.

Question 12

Ready - Define skills and support readiness

Answer 12

• Address current gaps.
• Ensure that IT and business people are ready for the change and the new technologies.
• Define support needs.

Question 13

Ready - Create your landing zone

Answer 13

Set up a migration target in the cloud to handle prioritized applications.
The term landing zone is used to describe an environment that’s provisioned and prepared to host workloads in a cloud environment, such as Azure.

Question 14

Cloud governance

Answer 14

Policy definition ensures consistency across adoption efforts.
Alignment to governance/compliance requirements is key to maintain a well-managed cross-cloud environment

Question 15

Cloud management

Answer 15

Manage and operations enumerates, implements, and iterative reviews related to the expected operational behavior of the service.

Question 16

Five disciplines of cloud governance

Answer 16

• Cost management
• Security baseline
• Resource consistency
• Identity baseline
• Deployment acceleration.