Cloud computing offers several deployment models. Which model is best described as a combination of two or more distinct cloud infrastructure types (public, private, community, or hybriD.?

Lena V.Jun 2, 2026

Hybrid cloud is the answer, C. The definition the exam uses is straight from ISO/IEC 17788 and NIST SP 800-145: a hybrid cloud is two or more distinct cloud infrastructure types bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability, which is word-for-word what that question describes.

Mateus R.Jun 7, 2026

Think of your home network. You have a private router setup for personal stuff, but you also subscribe to a public hotspot service for when guests come over. Sometimes those two systems hand off traffic to each other. That combined setup, where distinct infrastructure types work together as one, is exactly what a hybrid cloud is. The key word in the definition is "combination of two or more distinct cloud infrastructure types," and the standard (ISO/IEC 17788 and NIST SP 800-145) is explicit that those types remain unique entities bound by technology that enables data and application portability. Multi-cloud, option A, is just using multiple public clouds from different vendors, which is a different concept entirely. When I sat for this exam I actually circled back to this one twice. My gut said hybrid but I second-guessed myself because the stem listed four types including "hybrid" itself and I thought, wait, can hybrid be one of the types and also the answer describing the combination? It can. Hybrid cloud is the deployment model name for the combination; the four infrastructure types are public, private, community, and hybrid, and any mix of at least two of them qualifies as a hybrid deployment. Once I drew that line in my head it clicked, I went with C and moved on.

Yusuf A.May 26, 2026

Okay so I kept going back and forth on this one but I landed on B, Cross-cloud, because the word itself tells you what it does, it crosses across different infrastructure types and connects them together into one working environment. My senior actually drew it out for me on a whiteboard last week and showed how traffic moves between a company's on-prem setup and a vendor's public nodes, and he called that whole bridged architecture a cross-cloud pattern. Hybrid sounds close but to me hybrid implies just two things mixed, like a hybrid car is gas plus electric, whereas the question specifically says "two or more distinct types" which feels broader than what hybrid covers. Cross-cloud captures that idea of spanning multiple distinct environments without locking you into the two-at-a-time meaning that hybrid kind of implies.