Unilever is considering reducing their workforce as a result of moving to remote working in their factories. The three countries to be significantly impacted will be South Africa, Brazil and the United States. Not only are they considering downsizing their workforce, but they are also considering which location to establish their virtual headquarters.Out of the three locations, which one would be the most attractive for the virtual headquarters and why? Base this on conducting a detailed analysis using LOF or CAGE for each of the different locations.

What are three key advantages Unilever is experiencing with shifting to remote work for their manufacturing facilities as outlined in the case? What benefits do these bring to the organisation?

When establishing a regional headquarters, which dimension of distance should be most influential in determining the location choice: administrative, cultural, economic, geographic, institutional or psychic?

Locational excellence is particularly important for which type of firm?Multiple choice question.Call centersScience research facilityManufacturersRetailers

Which type of organization operates primarily in a digital environment, with remote teams and no physical offices?*a) Flat Organizationb) Virtual Organizationc) Matrix Organizationd) Network Organization

1.Question 1Which of the following is a geographic area or location where a Cloud provider’s infrastructure is clustered?1 pointData centerNetworkingWarehouse Region2.Question 2Which of the following VMs use hosted hypervisors? 1 pointVMware ESX Oracle VirtualBoxMicrosoft Hyper-VOpen-source KVM3.Question 3Which type of Virtual Machine (VM) takes advantage of unused capacity in data centers at a much lower cost than regular VMs of similar sizes?1 pointTransient or Spot VMsShared or Public Cloud VMs Reserved virtual serversDedicated hosts4.Question 4Why do bare metal servers take longer to provision than virtual servers?1 pointThey are physical servers that can be customized to a specified capacityGPU configuration takes timeThey are multi-tenant servers, and all tenants must help configure themCustomer configures the physical servers5.Question 5Which part of a logically segmented cloud network is the main area where security is implemented? 1 pointLogical instances of networking elementsLoad balancersNetworking spacesSubnets6.Question 6Which is a container?1 pointA piece of software that pulls resources from the physical server and allocates them to your virtual environmentA type of virtual machine that is provider-managed, multi-tenant, and can be provisioned on-demand with predefined sizesA physical server dedicated to a single customerAn executable unit of software in which application code is packaged along with its libraries and dependencies, allowing it to be run anywhere