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A multi-national corporation is evaluating cloud services. They are particularly interested in the ability to easily provision new virtual machines, storage, and networking components through a self-service portal, without direct human intervention from the cloud provider. Which characteristic of cloud computing does this describe?
- ARapid elasticity
- BBroad network access
- COn-demand self-service
- DMeasured service
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Correct answer: C. On-demand self-service
On-demand self-service allows consumers to provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service provider.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Rapid elasticity describes the ability to quickly scale resources up or down.
- B. Broad network access refers to capabilities being available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms.
- D. Measured service involves monitoring and reporting resource usage for billing purposes.
On-demand Self-service
A fundamental characteristic of cloud computing where users can provision computing resources like servers, storage, and network capacity automatically and independently, without human interaction from the service provider.
- Accessed via a self-service portal.
- No human intervention required from the provider.
- Enables quick resource allocation.
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