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You are the security manager for a small application development company. Your company is considering the use of the cloud for software testing purposes. Which cloud service model is most likely to su

The correct answer is B. PaaS. For software testing, Platform as a Service (PaaS) is ideal as it provides a complete development and deployment environment without requiring management of the underlying infrastructure.

Submitted by ahmad_uae· Apr 18, 2026Cloud Concepts, Architecture and Design

Question

You are the security manager for a small application development company. Your company is considering the use of the cloud for software testing purposes. Which cloud service model is most likely to suit your needs?

Options

  • AIaaS
  • BPaaS
  • CSaaS
  • DLaaS

How the community answered

(15 responses)
  • A
    7% (1)
  • B
    80% (12)
  • C
    13% (2)

Why each option

For software testing, Platform as a Service (PaaS) is ideal as it provides a complete development and deployment environment without requiring management of the underlying infrastructure.

AIaaS

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) would require the company to manage operating systems, middleware, and runtime environments, which is more overhead than typically desired for a pure testing environment.

BPaaSCorrect

Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides a complete development and deployment environment, including operating systems, programming language execution environments, databases, and web servers, making it highly suitable for software testing without infrastructure management overhead.

CSaaS

Software as a Service (SaaS) provides ready-to-use applications to end-users and is not suitable for developing and testing custom software.

DLaaS

LaaS is not a standard cloud service model; the term generally refers to 'Logging as a Service' which is irrelevant for providing a testing environment.

Concept tested: Cloud service models (PaaS for Dev/Test)

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/get-started/shared-responsibility#cloud-service-models

Topics

#Cloud service models#PaaS#Application development#Software testing

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