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What is known as the interface used to connect with the metastructure and configure the cloud environment?

The correct answer is B. Management plane. The management plane is the cloud-specific interface that allows administrators to connect to the metastructure and configure the cloud environment, analogous to a control layer above all cloud services.

Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Security

Question

What is known as the interface used to connect with the metastructure and configure the cloud environment?

Options

  • AAdministrative access
  • BManagement plane
  • CIdentity and Access Management
  • DSingle sign-on
  • ECloud dashboard

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    84% (32)
  • C
    8% (3)
  • E
    5% (2)

Why each option

The management plane is the cloud-specific interface that allows administrators to connect to the metastructure and configure the cloud environment, analogous to a control layer above all cloud services.

AAdministrative access

Administrative access describes a privilege level granted to users, not a specific interface or plane in cloud architecture.

BManagement planeCorrect

The management plane is the abstraction layer that provides the interface to the cloud metastructure, enabling administrators to provision, configure, and manage cloud resources. In the CSA cloud security model, the metastructure is the glue between the infrastructure and the services built on top of it, and the management plane is how operators interact with it. Compromise of the management plane gives an attacker control over the entire cloud environment.

CIdentity and Access Management

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a service for controlling who can access resources, not the interface used to configure the cloud environment itself.

DSingle sign-on

Single sign-on is an authentication mechanism that allows one set of credentials to access multiple systems, unrelated to the cloud configuration interface.

ECloud dashboard

A cloud dashboard is a graphical UI tool that may sit on top of the management plane, but the formal architectural term for the configuration interface is the management plane.

Concept tested: Cloud management plane and metastructure architecture

Source: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/guidance/

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#management plane#metastructure#cloud interface#administrative access

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