CCSP Cloud Concepts, Architecture, and Design Practice Question
An organization is evaluating cloud service providers and notices that one provider's SLA offers 99.99% availability for a specific service, while another offers 99.9%. If the service costs $100,000 per month, what is the maximum allowable downtime per month for the 99.99% SLA?
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4.32 minutes
99.99% availability allows 0.01% downtime. Monthly downtime = 30 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes = 43,200 minutes. 0.01% of 43,200 = 4.32 minutes.
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- ✗
8.64 minutes
Why it's wrong here
Double the correct value; miscalculation.
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43.2 minutes
Why it's wrong here
This corresponds to 99.9% availability.
- ✗
2.16 minutes
Why it's wrong here
Half the correct value; miscalculation.
- ✓
4.32 minutes
Why this is correct
Correct. 99.99% = 0.01% downtime = 4.32 minutes per month.
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