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MS-900 · Question #161

You need to deploy an application to Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Which three features are part of IaaS? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct…

The correct answer is B. real-time monitoring D. servers and storage E. firewall and network security. IaaS provides virtualized computing infrastructure over the internet, including physical and virtual servers, storage, networking, and security components. Understanding which features belong to IaaS versus PaaS or SaaS is essential for cloud deployment planning.

Submitted by kwame.gh· Mar 5, 2026Describe cloud concepts

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You need to deploy an application to Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Which three features are part of IaaS? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Options

  • Abusiness analytics
  • Breal-time monitoring
  • Coperating system
  • Dservers and storage
  • Efirewall and network security

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    8% (2)
  • B
    71% (17)
  • C
    21% (5)

Why each option

IaaS provides virtualized computing infrastructure over the internet, including physical and virtual servers, storage, networking, and security components. Understanding which features belong to IaaS versus PaaS or SaaS is essential for cloud deployment planning.

Abusiness analytics

Business analytics is a higher-level capability associated with SaaS or PaaS offerings, not IaaS, because it involves application-layer services built on top of infrastructure rather than the infrastructure itself.

Breal-time monitoringCorrect

Real-time monitoring is an IaaS feature because the cloud provider supplies infrastructure-level monitoring tools that track the health, performance, and availability of the underlying compute, storage, and network resources provisioned to the customer.

Coperating system

The operating system is not managed by the IaaS provider - in IaaS, the customer is responsible for installing, configuring, patching, and managing the OS on the virtual machines, whereas the provider only manages the underlying hardware and virtualization layer.

Dservers and storageCorrect

Servers and storage are the foundational components of IaaS - the cloud provider manages and maintains the physical and virtualized server hardware and storage systems, making them available on demand to customers without requiring on-premises hardware ownership.

Efirewall and network securityCorrect

Firewall and network security are core IaaS offerings; the provider delivers virtualized network security services such as firewalls, network access control, and DDoS protection as part of the infrastructure layer, allowing customers to configure and enforce network security policies.

Concept tested: IaaS components versus PaaS and SaaS responsibilities

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-cloud-service-types/2-describe-infrastructure-service

Topics

#IaaS#Cloud service models#Shared responsibility model#Virtual machines

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