CV0-003 · Question #825
Which of the following cloud services is fully managed?
The correct answer is E. SaaS. SaaS is the cloud service model where the provider manages the complete stack - infrastructure, platform, runtime, and the application itself - leaving the customer responsible only for data and usage.
Question
Which of the following cloud services is fully managed?
Options
- AIaaS
- BGPU in the cloud
- CIoT
- DServerless compute
- ESaaS
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A3% (1)
- B5% (2)
- D3% (1)
- E90% (35)
Why each option
SaaS is the cloud service model where the provider manages the complete stack - infrastructure, platform, runtime, and the application itself - leaving the customer responsible only for data and usage.
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) provides only hardware, storage, and networking; the customer remains responsible for the OS, middleware, runtime, and applications.
GPU in the cloud is a hardware resource offering (a subset of IaaS) where the customer must still manage the OS and all software layers running on the GPU instance.
IoT refers to a category of connected physical devices and ecosystems, not a cloud service delivery model with a defined management responsibility split.
Serverless compute is highly abstracted but not fully managed - the customer remains responsible for writing, deploying, and maintaining the application code and business logic.
SaaS (Software as a Service) is the only model in the shared responsibility framework where the cloud provider manages the entire stack: hardware, networking, virtualization, OS, middleware, runtime, and the application. The customer has no infrastructure or application management responsibilities, making it the definition of a fully managed cloud service.
Concept tested: SaaS as fully managed cloud service model
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/shared-responsibility
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