Cloud Digital Leader Why cloud technology is transforming business Practice Question

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For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.

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  Converting paper policy documents to digital PDFs stored in cloud document management systems

  Why it's wrong here

  Converting paper policy documents to PDFs and storing them in a cloud document management system changes only the storage medium and retrieval mechanism. The insurance product, actuarial pricing tables, underwriting rules, and customer relationship remain identical to the paper-based flow. This is digitization — photocopying the artifact, not reimagining the business — and typically yields only marginal cost savings from reduced physical storage, not new revenue or a fundamentally different value proposition.

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  Replacing the claims processing fax machine with an online portal

  Why it's wrong here

  Replacing the claims processing fax machine with an online portal makes claim intake electronic, but the downstream workflow — adjuster assignment, manual damage assessment, rule-based adjudication, and fixed payout schedules — still mirrors the fax-era process exactly. No new data sources (telematics, IoT sensors, third-party APIs) are ingested, no ML models enable predictive triage or fraud detection, and the insured's experience of filing, tracking, and settlement is only modestly accelerated. This is digitalization of a transaction, not business-model transformation.

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  Offering usage-based, dynamically priced insurance products using real-time telematics data and ML-driven individual risk assessment — replacing demographic-table pricing with behavioral data

  Why this is correct

  This is true transformation. The insurance product itself changes: pricing is no longer based on demographic averages but individual behavior. Good drivers pay less; high-risk behavior triggers real-time pricing changes. This requires cloud-scale real-time data processing and ML, and creates a fundamentally different customer value proposition from traditional insurance.

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  Moving the company's email system to Google Workspace to improve employee collaboration

  Why it's wrong here

  Moving the company's email system to Google Workspace is a workplace productivity and infrastructure decision that does not touch any component of the insurance value chain — risk selection, pricing, distribution, claims, or capital management. It improves internal collaboration (calendar, docs, chat) but generates zero customer-visible value, no new data-driven services, and no change to how risk is underwritten or priced. In the cloud-migration lexicon this is a 'lift and shift' of commodity IT, indistinguishable from any non-insurance company doing the same, and therefore irrelevant to digital transformation of the business model.

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