A tax office keeps its file server in its own closet and starts extra virtual machines at a public provider each spring. Which cloud model is that mix?
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Short Explanation
Part of the work stays in the office closet and the overflow runs in someone else's cloud. That combination is a hybrid cloud. Calling the closet server public, treating a busy season as an industry co-op, or naming rented machines a finished application misses the split you were given.
Full Explanation
Hybrid cloud is the model that uses an organization's own systems and a public cloud together. The file server in the closet is the private side, and the spring virtual machines at a public provider are the public side. Public cloud alone would mean the provider hosts the workload and the closet server is not part of the design. A community cloud is shared by a group of organizations with a common concern. One tax office bursting to a public provider is not that shared community. Software as a service is a finished application the vendor runs. Renting virtual machines is infrastructure, and the office is not handing the whole application to a vendor in this stem. Exam caveat: the private side has to be able to reach the public side, or the burst never happens. The model name does not create the network path. Operational check: list which systems stay in the closet and which machines start at the provider, and confirm both are in use during the peak. Name the closet server and the provider account in the same diagram so the hybrid split is obvious at review.