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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?
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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The customer
Under the shared responsibility model, the customer is responsible for configuring their cloud resources securely, including storage bucket permissions. The cloud provider is responsible for the security of the cloud (infrastructure) but not for customer misconfigurations. The third-party vendor and cloud auditor are not directly responsible for the misconfiguration.
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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 provider is responsible for the underlying infrastructure, not the customer's bucket configurations.
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The cloud auditor
Why it's wrong here
The auditor assesses compliance but does not configure resources.
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A third-party security vendor
Why it's wrong here
The vendor may provide tools but is not responsible for the misconfiguration.
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The customer
Why this is correct
The customer is responsible for configuring their storage buckets and managing access permissions.
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