AZ-900 Practice Question 11: Private Cloud Model
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 2 · question 1 of 10
A government agency must run its analytics platform on hardware dedicated entirely to itself, with no other organization's data on the same servers and its own IT team keeping full control of the environment. Which cloud deployment model does this describe?
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Answer:
A private cloud is a cloud environment used by a single entity. It delivers cloud-style self-service IT while keeping the resources dedicated to one organization, which is what gives the agency complete control and keeps its data from being collocated with other tenants' data. The trade-off is cost: the hardware still has to be bought and maintained by someone, whether it sits in the agency's own datacenter or in a dedicated offsite facility.
Option A is wrong because a public cloud is built, controlled, and maintained by a third-party provider and is available to anyone who wants to buy capacity; that general availability is the defining difference, and it means shared underlying hardware. Option C, hybrid cloud, interconnects a private and a public cloud; the stem describes no public component at all. Option D, multicloud, means using two or more public cloud providers, which neither dedicates hardware to the agency nor gives its team control of the servers.
Reference: Define cloud models