Question

For a server with a four-year lifetime, you would therefore need to include an overhead roughly equal to ___ percent of the system’s acquisition cost.

(a) 10

(b) 20

(c) 25

(d) All of the mentioned

The question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

The query is from Cloud computing costs topic in chapter Value Proposition of Cloud of Cloud Computing

Answer 1

Correct answer is (c) 25

Best explanation: The costs of a system in a datacenter must also include the overhead associated with power, cooling, and the physical plant.