When Comparing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of an On-Premises

question 256

Multiple Choice

When comparing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an on-premises infrastructure to a cloud architecture, what costs should be considered? (Choose two.)

• A) The credit card processing fees for application transactions in the cloud.
• B) The cost of purchasing and installing server hardware in the on-premises data.
• C) The cost of administering the infrastructure, including operating system and software installations, patches, backups, and recovering from failures.
• D) The costs of third-party penetration testing.
• E) The advertising costs associated with an ongoing enterprise-wide campaign.

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