A company wants to deploy a custom application without worrying about the underlying servers, operating systems, or middleware. Which service model minimizes the customer's management responsibility for these components?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

A hospital must store patient data in a way that complies with strict data-sovereignty laws, requiring data to remain in the country. The hospital also wants to minimize management overhead and avoid maintaining its own data center. Which combination of deployment and service model is most appropriate?

Public cloud with a local region and SaaS for the application

Which cloud service model provides virtualized hardware resources such as virtual machines, storage, and networking, while leaving the customer responsible for managing the operating system, middleware, and applications?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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Cloud Computing Models and Architecture NDE Practice Questions (Page 4)

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16foundation · easy
A company wants to deploy a custom application without worrying about the underlying servers, operating systems, or middleware. Which service model minimizes the customer's management responsibility for these components?
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17expert · hard
A hospital must store patient data in a way that complies with strict data-sovereignty laws, requiring data to remain in the country. The hospital also wants to minimize management overhead and avoid maintaining its own data center. Which combination of deployment and service model is most appropriate?
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18foundation · easy
Which cloud service model provides virtualized hardware resources such as virtual machines, storage, and networking, while leaving the customer responsible for managing the operating system, middleware, and applications?
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19foundation · easy
In a cloud architecture, which component is the user-facing interface that allows clients to interact with the cloud, such as a web browser or mobile app?
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20foundation · easy
A financial institution must meet strict regulatory requirements that mandate data residency within a specific country. Which deployment model factor is most directly influenced by this requirement?
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Cloud Computing Models and Architecture NDE Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

A company wants to deploy a custom application without worrying about the underlying servers, operating systems, or middleware. Which service model minimizes the customer's management responsibility for these components?

Which cloud service model provides virtualized hardware resources such as virtual machines, storage, and networking, while leaving the customer responsible for managing the operating system, middleware, and applications?

In a cloud architecture, which component is the user-facing interface that allows clients to interact with the cloud, such as a web browser or mobile app?

A financial institution must meet strict regulatory requirements that mandate data residency within a specific country. Which deployment model factor is most directly influenced by this requirement?

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