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The nature of cloud computing and how it operates make complying with data discovery and disclosure orders more difficult. Which of the following concepts provides the biggest challenge in regard to…

The correct answer is B. Multitenancy. Multitenancy in cloud computing poses the biggest challenge for data discovery and legal disclosure orders because data from multiple customers is often commingled on shared infrastructure, complicating isolation and retrieval of specific customer data.

Submitted by haruto_sh· Apr 18, 2026Legal, Risk and Compliance

Question

The nature of cloud computing and how it operates make complying with data discovery and disclosure orders more difficult. Which of the following concepts provides the biggest challenge in regard to data collection, pursuant to a legal order? Response:

Options

  • APortability
  • BMultitenancy
  • CReversibility
  • DAuto-scaling

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    92% (22)
  • C
    4% (1)

Why each option

Multitenancy in cloud computing poses the biggest challenge for data discovery and legal disclosure orders because data from multiple customers is often commingled on shared infrastructure, complicating isolation and retrieval of specific customer data.

APortability

Portability refers to the ability to move data, which can facilitate data collection if data can be moved to a forensics environment, so it's less of a challenge.

BMultitenancyCorrect

Multitenancy, where multiple customers' data often resides on shared physical infrastructure, presents significant challenges for data discovery and legal orders because it makes it difficult to precisely identify, isolate, and extract only the relevant data belonging to a specific customer without impacting others.

CReversibility

Reversibility (the ability to revert to a previous state or migrate off the cloud) is not directly a challenge for data collection but rather for operational or architectural changes.

DAuto-scaling

Auto-scaling refers to the dynamic allocation of resources, which might change where data resides over time, but the core difficulty for discovery lies in the shared nature of multitenancy itself.

Concept tested: Cloud challenges for legal discovery (multitenancy)

Topics

#Cloud Computing Concepts#Legal Compliance#Data Discovery#Multitenancy

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