The dallas county is testing a system to monitor traffic behavior. the workload needs to run on 20 windows servers for parallel integration with various other systems on azure. the system test doesn't require any specifics for the servers other than minimum 2vcpu's, minimum 8gb ram and minimum 100gb disk, according to the developers. no performance was specified since it is a test environment. the test is supposed to run for 1 year. how much would you spend on azure for those 20 servers? would you pay cheaper if you could deploy those 20 servers on aws? it is possible to buy a host server from a famous manufacturer, install vmware on it, and provision 20 vm's such as the specified above for less than $5,000.00. what do you think about it?

What is marketing’s contribution to the new product development team? a. technical expertise needed to translate designs into an actual product/service. b. deep customer insight that leads to product ideas. c. ability to assess financial viability d. feedback on design as well as how customers will actually use the product e. technical expertise needed to translate concepts into product/service designs.

1. which one of the following would be an example of a supply-side market failure? a. a gas station is slowly leaking diesel fuel from its underground tanks, and after the leak is discovered, the business immediately cleans up the pollution at its own expense. b. a gas station is slowly leaking diesel fuel from its underground tanks, but the state uses taxpayer money to clean up the pollution rather than requiring the business to pay. c. your business wants to attract repeat customers by putting on a customer-appreciation picnic at a public park, but you decide not to because you couldn't prevent noncustomers from consuming the food and entertainment you provided. d. everyone rushes to the local retail outlet at midnight on the day of the release of a new video game console, and the store runs out before everyone is able to buy one.

Acompany's sales in year 1 were $300,000, year 2 were $351,000, and year 3 were $400,000. using year 2 as a base year, the sales percent for year 3 is