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Which of these is an example of FIXED cost in an on-premises datacentre?
APay-per-request serverless invocations
BA 10-year capital lease on physical servers and storage hardware
CPer-second billing for cloud VMs only when they run
DSpot pricing that changes minute to minute
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. A 10-year capital lease on physical servers and storage hardware
A multi-year capital lease commits to the same payment regardless of usage = fixed cost. The other options are textbook variable-cost cloud models.
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