How should a QA Environment be setup?

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I am currently at a loss. We are moving from Dev-owned testing environment to a QA-owned one. I have worked in a QA-owned testing environment before. But I have never set one up from scratch. I understand that it should mirror Production as much as possible. But how? How have you setup your QA Environment?

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