CCSP · Question #618
Which of the following aspects of cloud computing would make it more likely that a cloud provider would be unwilling to satisfy specific certification requirements?
The correct answer is B. Multitenancy. Multitenancy is the cloud model where multiple customers share the same underlying physical infrastructure. This makes it very difficult-and often impractical-for a cloud provider to meet customer-specific certification requirements (such as FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, or HIPAA controls…
Question
Which of the following aspects of cloud computing would make it more likely that a cloud provider would be unwilling to satisfy specific certification requirements?
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- ARegulation
- BMultitenancy
- CVirtualization
- DResource pooling
How the community answered
(23 responses)- B91% (21)
- C4% (1)
- D4% (1)
Explanation
Multitenancy is the cloud model where multiple customers share the same underlying physical infrastructure. This makes it very difficult-and often impractical-for a cloud provider to meet customer-specific certification requirements (such as FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, or HIPAA controls tailored to one tenant) because doing so might require changes to shared infrastructure that affect all other tenants. Isolating one customer's environment to satisfy a unique compliance mandate conflicts with the shared-resource efficiency that defines cloud economics. Regulation (A), virtualization (C), and resource pooling (D) create challenges too, but multitenancy is the most direct reason a provider cannot satisfy tenant-specific certifications.
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