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Sort the Five Cloud Characteristics

Classify common cloud behaviors under the correct NIST essential characteristic.

Sort each behavior into the NIST cloud characteristic it most clearly demonstrates. On-demand self-service Broad network access Resource pooling Rapid elasticity Measured service A developer can provision a test database without opening a human ticket Users can reach the platform through standard network mechanisms from laptops and mobile devices Workloads draw from shared provider capacity without pinning each team to a named physical server The API tier scales out quickly during a demand spike and shrinks back afterward Usage reports show which team consumed compute hours and storage over the month An analyst can create object storage directly from a…

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