CCSP Cloud Concepts, Architecture, and Design Practice Question
A software vendor wants to offer its analytics product to several hospitals. Each hospital demands that its data reside on infrastructure dedicated to that hospital, that the hospital retain control over patching windows, and that the vendor's other customers never share the same physical hosts. The hospitals also want to share the cost of the common management tooling the vendor provides. Which cloud deployment model BEST matches these requirements?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is reading dedicated infrastructure and choosing private cloud, overlooking that the consumers are multiple organizations sharing common concerns and costs.
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Community cloud
The hospitals share a common set of concerns, including data residency, tenancy isolation, and patching control, and they want to pool the cost of the vendor's management tooling. That combination of exclusive use by a defined group plus shared economics is the defining characteristic of a community cloud. A public cloud conflicts with dedicated tenancy, a hybrid cloud addresses portability between models, and a private cloud serves one organization rather than a group sharing common requirements.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Hybrid cloud
Why it's wrong here
A hybrid cloud composes two or more distinct deployment models bound by technology that enables data and application portability. The scenario does not describe an on-premises estate joined to a cloud estate, nor a need to move workloads between models. The hospitals' requirements center on exclusive tenancy within a defined group and shared tooling cost, which is a community arrangement rather than a hybrid composition.
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Community cloud
Why this is correct
A community cloud is provisioned for exclusive use by a specific group of consumers that share common concerns such as compliance, security, or mission. The hospitals form exactly such a community, each getting dedicated infrastructure and control over its own patching while sharing the cost of the vendor's common management tooling. This matches the dedicated-tenancy and shared-cost requirements simultaneously.
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Private cloud
Why it's wrong here
A private cloud is provisioned for exclusive use by a single organization, which would satisfy dedicated infrastructure but not the goal of sharing common tooling cost across multiple hospitals. Building a separate private cloud for each hospital duplicates management effort and defeats the cost-sharing objective. The shared-concern, multi-organization aspect of the requirement is what distinguishes the community model from a private one.
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Public cloud
Why it's wrong here
A public cloud pools infrastructure across many unrelated customers and is provisioned for open use. The hospitals explicitly require dedicated infrastructure and no sharing of physical hosts with other customers, which contradicts the multi-tenant basis of a public cloud. While public cloud providers offer isolated tenancy options, the requirement for hospital-controlled patching windows across dedicated infrastructure points to a different deployment model.
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