A formal contract between a Service Provider (SP) and a Service Consumer (SC) is known as
a. Service Level Agreement
b. Service Level Objectives
c. Quality of Service
d. Cloud Economic
Answers
The correct answer is (a) Service Level Agreement.
A formal contract between a Service Provider (SP) and a Service Consumer (SC) is known as Service Level Agreement.
It represents a working relationship or service contract between the client and the service provider.
Such agreements are based on output,i.e. it clearly elucidates what a consumer will receive.
A formal contract between a service Provider and a service consumer is known as "Service Level Agreement".
Important points:
(i) SLA's are created in the service level agreement application.
(ii) Base on the requirement of the organization, we can create one or more number of Service level agreement.
(iii) In order to send notifications, Service level agreement uses workflows.
(iv) In a series of transitions, SLA records are passed during processing.
(v) Some of its Key elements are - Service standards, context setting information etc.
(vi) For agreement, SLA provide a trusted source of information.
(vii) SLA alleviate the communication between provider and outsourcer.
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