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CV0-004 Practice Question: Which THREE of the following are common causes of…
Which THREE of the following are common causes of cloud resource provisioning failures?
⚠ Common exam trap
CompTIA often tests the distinction between hard failures (quotas, policies, limits) and soft failures (tagging, encryption), where candidates mistakenly think metadata or encryption misconfigurations prevent provisioning when they actually only cause post-deployment issues.
Answer choices
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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Insufficient service quotas.
Cloud providers enforce service quotas (e.g., AWS Service Quotas, Azure subscription limits, GCP project quotas) that cap the number of resources you can provision per region or account. When a provisioning request exceeds these quotas, the API call fails with an explicit error (e.g., AWS 'LimitExceeded' or Azure 'QuotaExceeded'). This is a common failure mode, especially in automated scaling or CI/CD pipelines.
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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Insufficient service quotas.
Why this is correct
Service quotas limit the number of resources that can be created.
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Policy restrictions (e.g., organization policies).
Why this is correct
Policies can deny resource creation based on compliance rules.
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Exceeded resource limits (e.g., vCPU, memory).
Why this is correct
Resource limits can prevent provisioning of additional resources.
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Disk encryption settings.
Why it's wrong here
Disk encryption does not cause provisioning failures.
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Incorrect resource tagging.
Why it's wrong here
Tagging is metadata and does not affect provisioning success.
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