CLF-C02 - Cloud Concepts - Section 1.5

Recognise how the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) helps reduce business risk and improve operational efficiency and environmental, social and governance outcomes.

Describe how the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework organises guidance across perspectives including business, people, governance, platform, security, and operations to reduce business risk and improve operational efficiency. Recognise that ESG outcomes such as reduced infrastructure footprint are an explicit benefit the framework addresses.

AWS Cloud Adoption FrameworkBusiness riskOperational efficiencyESG

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In the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, foundational capabilities are grouped into six areas covering Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security and Operations. What does the framework call these six groupings?

  • APerspectives, the six lenses through which the framework groups related foundational capabilities Correct
  • BTransformation domains, the areas where the framework organises the work of changing the organisation
  • CDesign pillars, the categories used to assess a single workload against the Well-Architected guidance
  • DCapability gaps, the differences between current and target capabilities found during an assessment
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework groups foundational capabilities into six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security and Operations. AWS CAF organises its foundational capabilities into six perspectives, Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security and Operations, so an assessment can examine readiness across each lens and plan the cloud journey in a structured way.

Why A is correct: AWS CAF groups its foundational capabilities into six perspectives, Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security and Operations, so this is the correct label for those groupings.

Why B is wrong: Transformation domains are a real CAF term, which makes this tempting, but they are the technology, process, organisation and product areas of change, not the six capability groupings asked about.

Why C is wrong: Pillars are a genuine AWS concept, so they sound plausible, but they belong to the Well-Architected Framework and assess one workload, not the six CAF capability groupings.

Why D is wrong: Capability gaps are a real CAF idea and so are tempting, but they are the differences a review uncovers, not the names of the six groupings that organise capabilities.

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