AZ-900 Practice Question 51: Multicloud
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) · Test 6 · question 1 of 10
After an acquisition, a company runs some workloads in Azure and inherits others already running with a different public cloud provider. It intends to keep both and manage resources and security in each. What is this arrangement called?
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Answer:
In a multicloud scenario you use multiple public cloud providers, perhaps because you want different features from each, or because you started your cloud journey with one provider and are part-way through migrating. Microsoft's description matches the stem closely: in a multicloud environment you deal with two or more public cloud providers and manage resources and security in both. (Azure Arc is Microsoft's technology for managing such an estate from one control plane.)
Option A is the classic confusion: a hybrid cloud uses both public *and private* clouds in an interconnected environment, and nothing in the stem mentions private or on-premises infrastructure. Option C is wrong because a private cloud is dedicated to a single entity, and neither provider here dedicates hardware to this company. Option D states something true of each environment individually but does not name the arrangement; "public cloud" describes a company using one provider just as well, so it fails to distinguish the situation at all.
Reference: Define cloud models