Which is not a cloud component?

Question

Options

• AMarketplace
• BIdentity and Access Management
• CCompute
• DVLAN

• A
  3% (1)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  93% (28)

Explanation

VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) is not a cloud component - it's a network segmentation technology used in traditional on-premises infrastructure to isolate traffic at Layer 2. Cloud environments abstract away physical and virtual LAN constructs entirely, instead using software-defined networking concepts like VPCs, subnets, and security groups.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• Marketplace (A) is a core cloud feature offered by all major providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) for discovering and deploying third-party services.
• Identity and Access Management (B) is fundamental to cloud security, controlling who can access which resources.
• Compute (C) is the most foundational cloud service category - virtual machines, containers, and serverless functions all fall under it.

Memory tip: Think "cloud = abstraction." VLANs require awareness of physical network hardware, which contradicts the cloud's core promise of abstracting infrastructure away. If a concept is tied to physical networking hardware or on-prem topology, it likely doesn't belong in the cloud component list.

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