C1000-176 · Question #40
What is a critical factor in ensuring the success of multicloud deployments?
The correct answer is C. Developing a comprehensive identity and access management strategy. A comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) strategy is essential in multicloud environments because users, services, and applications must authenticate and be authorized consistently across multiple cloud providers - without a unified IAM approach, security gaps and…
Question
What is a critical factor in ensuring the success of multicloud deployments?
Options
- AAvoiding the use of monitoring and management tools that support multiple clouds
- BCentralizing all data in one cloud to simplify access control
- CDeveloping a comprehensive identity and access management strategy
- DChoosing cloud services that do not offer APIs for integration
How the community answered
(26 responses)- A12% (3)
- B4% (1)
- C77% (20)
- D8% (2)
Explanation
A comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) strategy is essential in multicloud environments because users, services, and applications must authenticate and be authorized consistently across multiple cloud providers - without a unified IAM approach, security gaps and privilege misconfigurations become nearly inevitable.
Why the distractors are wrong:
- A is the opposite of best practice - monitoring and management tools that span multiple clouds are critical for visibility and control, not something to avoid.
- B centralizing data in one cloud defeats the purpose of multicloud and creates a single point of failure; data governance in multicloud is distributed by design.
- D APIs are the backbone of multicloud integration - avoiding them would make interoperability between cloud providers nearly impossible.
Memory tip: Think "IAM = I Access Many" - in a multicloud world, managing who can access what, across which clouds is the foundational security challenge, and IAM is how you solve it.
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