What is the correct response?

A company is considering transitioning to ITaaS. During an exploratory discussion, a potential stakeholder asks for clarification on the key difference(s) between traditional IT services and a cloud services.

What is the correct response?
A . A traditional IT service is often provided without accounting for direct cost or business value to the lines of business; a cloud service is packaged to provide business value to the lines of business and support direct costing through showbacks.
B . A traditional IT service views the physical network architecture as a manually-scaled system; a cloud service relies on an underlying layer of scalable network architecture.
C . A cloud service is any service that uses one of the five tenets of cloud computing; a traditional IT service uses guidelines from a more traditional computing model.
D . Both traditional IT services and cloud services are capable of driving value for the lines of business through service catalogs and degrees of automation; cloud services make use of cloud tenets and are designed to scale vertically.

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Answer: A

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As for cost, many traditional IT organizations look at cost from a high level but don’t have the ability to determine component costs. It’s easy to determine the costs of a server’s corresponding software, but new tools may be needed by IT organizations in order to break down costs at a component level, especially for offerings that come from shared environments. Many cloud service providers generate detailed invoices each month breaking down all the of the services used, how long, and their associated cost. Since one goal of ITaaS is to allow for IT to start behaving like an cloud service provider, determining how to break down costs by component is important.