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5.9.2: Critical Thinking Questions

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    Critical Thinking Questions

    1. Strategy Comparison: Compare the enterprise cloud strategies of Capital One (banking) and Toyota (manufacturing/IoT). How did their different industries influence their cloud design decisions? Which CCOA principles were most important to each, and why?
    2. Build vs. Buy: Dropbox initially built its service entirely on AWS but later invested in building its own private cloud infrastructure. Analyze the factors that led to this decision. Under what circumstances should an enterprise consider moving workloads off public cloud? What are the risks of this approach?
    3. Governance Design: A multinational corporation with operations in the US, EU, and Asia is designing its cloud governance framework. Data sovereignty laws differ across regions (GDPR in EU, varying regulations in Asia). How should the enterprise cloud strategy address these geographic and regulatory constraints while maintaining a unified architecture?
    4. Ecosystem Strategy: You are advising a mid-size SaaS company that wants to build a partner ecosystem similar to Salesforce's AppExchange. What components of ecosystem management are needed? How does this relate to the CCOA principles of configurable enablement and unified information exchange?

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