CCSP Cloud Concepts, Architecture, and Design Practice Question
A cloud customer is evaluating a provider's service level agreement (SLA) that guarantees 99.99% availability. What is the maximum allowable downtime per year (in minutes) before the SLA is violated?
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52.56 minutes
99.99% means 0.01% downtime per year. 365 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes = 525,600 minutes. 0.01% of that is 52.56 minutes, approximately 53 minutes.
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8.76 hours
Why it's wrong here
That is for 99.9% uptime.
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52.56 minutes
Why this is correct
99.99% uptime allows about 52.56 minutes downtime per year.
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5.26 minutes
Why it's wrong here
That is for 99.999% uptime.
- ✗
87.6 hours
Why it's wrong here
That is for 99% uptime.
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