A technician is deploying a new application that runs on thin clients with no local storage on the user's device. The thin client cannot make a VPN connection to the company data center. Which of…

Locally installed applications require local storage and processing power on the client device, which thin clients lack.

Local network-hosted applications would require the thin client to be on the company's local network or use a VPN to access it, which the scenario explicitly states is not possible.

Cloud-hosted applications are ideal for thin clients with no local storage and no VPN access to a corporate data center. These applications reside and execute entirely on remote servers within a public cloud provider's infrastructure, requiring only an internet connection and a web browser or minimal client software on the thin device to access them, thus bypassing the need for local storage or a VPN to a private data center.

A three-tier application architecture describes the logical separation of an application into presentation, application, and data layers, but it does not specify where these tiers are hosted or how they are accessed by a thin client without local storage or VPN.