CLF-C02 Question 19
Single answerA company is designing a new application on AWS. The team wants to prioritize minimizing operational overhead while ensuring that the system is secure, reliable, and cost-effective. Which pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework should the team focus on to achieve a balance between automating operations and minimizing the management burden?
- A
Operational Excellence
- B
Security
- C
Reliability
- D
Cost Optimization
- E
Performance Efficiency
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The Operational Excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework emphasizes designing systems that support continuous improvement, automation of processes, and the reduction of manual efforts. This aligns with the company's goal of minimizing operational overhead while ensuring efficient and reliable operations. While other pillars address different aspects of system design, such as security, cost optimization, and performance, they do not directly focus on balancing automation and operational management.
- A. Correct.
Operational Excellence focuses on automating processes, monitoring operations, and continually improving workflows, which directly helps minimize operational overhead while maintaining efficiency.
- B. Incorrect.
Security ensures the protection of data and systems but does not specifically address minimizing operational overhead or automating processes.
- C. Incorrect.
Reliability focuses on ensuring that a system can recover quickly from failures and meet operational requirements, but it does not address the balance between automation and operational overhead.
- D. Incorrect.
Cost Optimization focuses on managing costs effectively but does not prioritize minimizing operational burden or automating operations.
- E. Incorrect.
Performance Efficiency is about effectively using computing resources for optimal performance. While important, it does not emphasize reducing the operational management burden.