A hospital must store electronic health records and requires that its infrastructure be used exclusively by the hospital, with strict access controls and compliance auditing. The hospital also wants to avoid building a new physical data center. Which deployment model best satisfies these requirements?

Public cloud with shared infrastructure

Hybrid cloud with public cloud for storage

Private cloud hosted by a third-party provider

A small marketing agency has 15 employees who need access to a shared document editing suite, email, and video conferencing. The agency has no IT staff and wants to avoid managing servers or software updates. Which service model best meets these needs?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

In the IaaS model, what is the customer responsible for managing?

The operating system, applications, and data.

Nothing; the provider manages everything.

Only the application code, not the runtime environment.

The physical servers and network cables.

Which scenario best describes a private cloud?

A cloud service offered by a third-party provider to the general public.

A cloud service that provides software applications over the internet.

A cloud environment used exclusively by a single organization.

A combination of public and private cloud resources.

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A hospital must store electronic health records and requires that its infrastructure be used exclusively by the hospital, with strict access controls and compliance auditing. The hospital also wants to avoid building a new physical data center. Which deployment model best satisfies these requirements?
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A small marketing agency has 15 employees who need access to a shared document editing suite, email, and video conferencing. The agency has no IT staff and wants to avoid managing servers or software updates. Which service model best meets these needs?
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In the IaaS model, what is the customer responsible for managing?
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A startup launches a new web application and expects traffic to vary widely—sometimes near zero at night and spiking during promotions. The team wants to pay only for the compute resources they actually use and avoid long-term commitments. Which deployment model best fits this requirement?
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A small marketing agency has 15 employees who need access to a shared document editing suite, email, and video conferencing. The agency has no IT staff and wants to avoid managing servers or software updates. Which service model best meets these needs?

In the IaaS model, what is the customer responsible for managing?

Which scenario best describes a private cloud?

A startup launches a new web application and expects traffic to vary widely—sometimes near zero at night and spiking during promotions. The team wants to pay only for the compute resources they actually use and avoid long-term commitments. Which deployment model best fits this requirement?

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