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CV0-004 Practice Question: A company's cloud environment uses a shared…
A company's cloud environment uses a shared responsibility model. The security team notices that a data breach occurred due to misconfigured storage buckets in the public cloud. Which party is primarily responsible for this misconfiguration according to the shared responsibility model?
⚠ Common exam trap
CV0-004 often tests the shared responsibility model by presenting a misconfiguration scenario — candidates may incorrectly blame the provider, but the exam expects recognition that configuration is always the customer's responsibility.
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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The customer
Under the shared responsibility model, the cloud customer is always responsible for securing their own data and configuring their own resources, including storage bucket permissions. Misconfigured storage buckets are a customer-side configuration error, not a provider failure. The provider secures the infrastructure, but the customer secures what they put in it and how they configure access.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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The cloud service provider
Why it's wrong here
The cloud service provider secures the underlying infrastructure, not customer-managed storage bucket policies and permissions. Misconfigured buckets remain the customer's responsibility. The provider is correct for physical security, hypervisor patching, and other layers beneath the customer's configuration boundary.
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The cloud auditor
Why it's wrong here
A cloud auditor independently assesses controls and reports findings; it neither provisions nor configures customer storage buckets, so it cannot cause this misconfiguration. Auditing is correct when the requirement is independent assurance over an existing environment.
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A third-party security vendor
Why it's wrong here
A third-party security vendor supplies tools or managed services but does not own the customer's bucket configuration unless contractually delegated. Misconfigured storage buckets sit with the customer under the shared responsibility model; vendors are correct for outsourced monitoring or assessment tasks.
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The customer
Why this is correct
Under the shared responsibility model, the cloud provider secures the infrastructure, but the customer owns configuration of their own resources. Storage bucket permissions and access policies are customer-controlled, so the misconfiguration and resulting breach rest with the customer.
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Last reviewed September 2026 · checked against the official CompTIA exam blueprint
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