Selena has run out of memory on her phone's SD card. She has decided to store the files she has accumulated on a third-party cloud service provider's drives. Which of the following is a typical…

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Options

• AThe files become corrupted due to an attack from a hacker botnet.
• BThe files become unavailable whenever Internet connectivity is lost.
• CThe files become unavailable because they are being shared with other users.
• DThe files become corrupted because the provider uses a proprietary compression algorithm

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  86% (25)
• C
  7% (2)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Storing files on a third-party cloud service requires an active Internet connection to access them - without connectivity, the files are unreachable even though they aren't deleted or damaged, making B the correct and most common real-world limitation of cloud storage.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is incorrect because a botnet attack causing corruption is not a typical issue with cloud storage - it's a rare, targeted threat, not an everyday concern.
• C is incorrect because files being shared with other users doesn't make your files unavailable; sharing is a configurable permission, not an inherent problem.
• D is incorrect because proprietary compression causing corruption is not a standard cloud behavior - reputable providers use lossless or standard compression that doesn't corrupt files.

Memory tip: Think of cloud storage as a locker in a building you can only enter when the road (Internet) is open - the files are safe inside, but no road means no access.

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